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In the Cool house, Odontoglossum tripudians and constrictum are in 
bloom, with examples of Masdevallia corniculata, Schroederiana, the snow 
white M. tovarensis, Pleurothallis scapha, inflata, and papillifera, the latter 
a recent introduction from Costa Rica. There is also a fine plant of 
Lycaste gigantea, which is throwing up as many as seventeen of its curious 
flowers. 
Among the rarer things may be mentioned the pretty little Saccolabium 
bellinum, Bulbophyllum lilacinum, with dense spikes of lilac-coloured 
flowers, the allied B. lineatum, paler in colour and with brown lines on the 
sepals, and Angraecum gracilipes, the graceful species which ‘is figured at 
page 129. The plant of Stauropsis gigantea is producing another spike, 
and there are also two plants of Schomburgkia splendida, each bearing a 
tall spike of dark purple flowers, with very undulate, dusky purple sepals 
and petals, and a brighter purple lip. This does not by any means exhaust 
the list at the present time, and the number of species and hybrids that 
have bloomed in the collection during the present year must again aggregate 
several hundreds. It is doubtful whether any other group provides such a 
succession of interesting and beautiful plants throughout the entire year. 
_ Our aim in the preceding notes has been to give an idea of the richness 
and variety of the collection at the present time, with a few glimpses into 
its past history. A record of the latter would recount the history of Orchid 
R.A.R. 
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cultivation for upwards of a century. 
q CYMBIDIUM KANRAN. 
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N interesting Cymbidium was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meeting held on October 22nd last, by Messrs. J. & A. 
McBean, Cooksbridge, with the information that it came from Japan. On 
comparison it proves to be C. Kanran, a species described by Makino, in 
1902 (Tokyo Bot. Mag., xvi. p. 10), from materials cultivated in the Tokyo 
Botanic Garden which flowered in January, 1902. The author remarks: 
“An allied species of Cymbidium ensifolium, Sw., and C. xiphiifolium, 
Lindl. This Orchid is most familiar to the Japanese, being admired as the 
noblest and most valuable plant, from the fragrance of its flowers and noble 
appearance of its leaves. It is found freely growing in shady forests of the 
warmer parts of the south-west of this country, but it is commonly culti- 
vated in pots. It flowers at the beginning of winter, hence the name 
Kanran, that is, Winter Orchid. There are various forms; forma pur- 
purascens is one of them, having a purpurascent flower.” The locality is 
given as Prov. Musashi. It is identical with the plant figured ina Japanese 
work, published in 1856, and called Somoku Zusetsu (xvii. t. 4). The species 
