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their collector, Curtis, who found it growing on the margin of lakes and 
swamps, in partially exposed places in North-east Madagascar. The leaves 
sometimes reach as much as ten inches long, and the flowers are borne in 
graceful racemes, and are pure white, with the much elongated spurs tinged 
with buff. 
HE closing months of the year invariably bring a display of the autumn- 
blooming Cypripediums, of which a good collection is grown, and 
many are again in flower, including forms of C. insigne and hybrids having 
more or less of this species in their composition. The hybrids far out- 
number the species, and a long list could be compiled, but of the latter we 
may mention C. Lawrenceanum, virens, tonsum, and venustum, the latter a 
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NOTES FROM KEW.—XI.-XII. i 
good plant with eleven flowers. There are also examples of C. villosum and 
C. villosum aureum, with numerous plants in bud that will brighten up the 
house with the advent of the new year. 
The Cattleyas and allies are still brilliant, in fact the front stage of one 
house has been gay for months, as the large Cattleya house behind, in which 
the plants are grown, provides an almost constant succession. A list would 
take too much space, but there are derivatives of C. labiata, Bowringiana, 
Dowiana, Gaskelliana, and Warscewiczii, Lelia crispa, Perrinii, purpurata, 
Brassavola Digbyana, and others, in the most varied combinations, and the 
interest is always maintained. The very distinct C. Dormaniana is again in 
flower. Lelia Gouldiana and L. anceps are grown in quantity, and are 
beginning to bloom, the coloured varieties of L. anceps coming first, to be 
followed by the whites later on. L. albida must also be included, a plant 
now carrying several spikes. 
The deciduous Calanthes are making a good show, and are arranged in 
groups, C. Veitchii and C. Wm. Murray being now very effective. C. Bryan 
has the same origin as the last-mentioned, but is different in colour. C. 
Harrisii is blush white. Near by area few plants of the brilliant Epiden- 
drum vitellinum, with Epicattleya Sibyl, having green sepals and petals and 
a dark purple lip, Ccelogyne Rossiana and the handsome C. Mooreana, 4 
well-bloomed Maxillaria variabilis, and a few Oncidiums. 
Several Cymbidiums are in bloom, these including C. Tracyanum, 
C. Mastersii album, and C. sinense, with C. Winnianum and several 
hybrids of C. insigne. Several others are in spike, and the display will be 
continued for a considerabletime. C. Schlegelii (insigne x Wiganianum) is 
a charming thing, with large blush flowers, and copious crimson markings 
on the lip. 
