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flower, fairly intermediate in character. The sepals and petals are deep rose, 
the former irregularly blotched with chocolate brown, and the lip dark rose 
with a white area round the yellow crest. 
[Feises| ORCHIDS IN SEASON. Ara 
HE interesting plant. of Catasetum macrocarpum in the collection of 
G. Rae Fraser, Esq., Piggotts Manor, Letchmore Heath, whose 
history was given at page 334 of our last volume, is again in bloom, bearing 
a spike of nine male flowers. Mr. Fraser thinks this is the finest raceme 
it has produced. 
A flower of Lelia Susanna (pumila X Dayana) has been sent from the 
collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Evershot, Dorset. It bears a considerable 
resemblance to the latter, having distinct purple keels in the throat of the 
lip, though the ground colour there is yellow instead of white. The 
front lobe of the lip is deep purple, which colour extends round the apex of 
the side lobes. . The sepals and petals are light purple. It unmistakably 
combines the characters of the two parents. The cross was made by Mr. 
Clark several years ago, and he remarks that the habit is suggestive of a 
rather large L. pumila. 
A flower of Odontioda Henryi (C. Neetzliana x O. harvengtense) is sent 
by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells. Two or three plants 
have been recently exhibited, the colour being a -nearly uniform shade of 
light scarlet-red, with the usual crest yellow. 
Orcuips at Kew.—Numerous botanical rarities ate flowering at Kew, 
in addition to the usual showy species of the season. Among the former 
may be mentioned a plant of the interesting Lelia Lundii, which in habit 
closely resembles Sophronitis violacea, which is blooming freely beside it. 
Pleurothallis astrophora is a gem, though the individual flowers are so 
small as to require the aid of a lens to appreciate their beauty. P. 
scapha, however, is one of the largest flowered species in the genus, and its 
numerous racemes are very graceful. P. Roezlii is bearing a wealth of its 
curious dull purple flowers. Saccolabium bellinum with several flower 
scapes is as charming as its name indicates, and several pans of the pure 
white Cynorchis compacta are very attractive. Several plants of Calanthe 
kewensis are in bloom, and their bright rose flowers are particularly 
effective. One plant, it may be noted, is flowering in a clump of Cypri- 
pedium, where the seedling came up. C. kewensis was raised in the 
collection, from C. Veitchii crossed with the pollen of C. rubens, and was 
described at page 31 of our last volume. 
