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name of Epidendrum aloides, L. (which is a slip for E. aloifolium, as the 
references show), from an Indian plant which flowered with Messrs. 
Grimwood and Wykes, Kensington. It is also the Cymbidium aloifolium,. 
Lodd. (Bot. Cab., t. 967), said to have been received about 1790 from 
China; the C. aloifolium of King and Pantling (Orch. Sikkim, p. 149, t. 252); 
and the C. pendulum of Cogniaux & Goossens (Duct. Ic. Orch., Cymb., t. 6). 
For this we have not succeeded in finding a specific name of its own, and 
therefore propose to distinguish it by that of :— 
C. simuLANs, Rolfe.—The species is well distinguished from C. 
pendulum, Roxb., by the interrupted, curved keels of the lip, and usually 
by the much broader leaves. The flowers are straw yellow, with a purple 
stripe down the sepals and petals, while the short, much reflexed, obtuse 
front lobe has several stripes, and there are others on the side lobes. King 
& Pantling remark that in Sikkim the two plants grow side by side, that 
they appear quite distinct, and that no intermediates are found. The 
species is found on the Khasia Hills, Assam, Chittagong, Burma (including 
Wallich’s River Attran plant), Siam, Tonkin, and in the Yunnan district 
of China, where, according to Morse, it is common at Lungchow and 
Szemao, at 4000 feet elevation. There is also a drawing at Kew labelled 
Hongkong, and said to have been found on hill sides in sheltered places by 
Gen. Eyre. It is also apparently the Javan plant figured by Blume, and: 
by J. J. Smith, as C. aloifolium (though we have not seen Javan specimens),. 
and according to the latter it extends also to Sumatra and Borneo, which 
gives the species 2 remarkably wide diffusion. The confusion with C. 
pendulum, Roxb., was not at first discovered, hence this is the plant whose: 
history has previously been given under the latter name (Veitch Man. Orch., 
ix. p. 21; O.R., Xxill. p. 252), 
There are additional species of what may be called the section Aloifoliz,. 
which have largely escaped the above confusion. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CORONARIUM VAR. FLAVUM.—This is a very striking 
variety of Odontoglossum coronarium which has again flowered in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, and which Sir Frederick W. Moore 
remarks is quite constant in character, hence the need for a distinguishing 
varietal name. The usual red-brown markings have vanished, but are 
represented by a shade of what may be termed light orange-brown, the 
prevailing colour of the flowers being thus deep golden yellow. As in 
other xanthic varieties of the red-brown Odontoglossums, the flowers have 
a very distinct and attractive appearance. An inflorescence was originally 
sent to Kew as long ago as August, 1897, which has retained its character 
in drying. It is the only variety of the kind that we remember to have met 
with.—R.A.R. 
