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that the species seem to lack. M. Forget’s opinion of C. Rex is on record 
(see p. 282), but there is no gainsaying the fact that it has somewhat 
disappointed expectations’as a garden plant, and few have succeeded in 
growing it well for long together. 
Res| ORCHIDS AT KEW. | Brae | 
HE Orchid houses at Kew are always interesting, and generally there 
is a brilliant display of flowers, as at the present time, when Cattleyas 
and allied genera, and the Cypripedium group, are making a good show. 
A fine plant of Miltonia candida is bearing thirty-two spikes and an 
aggregate of 172 flowers, and affords an object of excellent culture. Several 
other Brazilian Miltonias are also in bloom. The remarkable Chondro- 
petalum Fletcheri is bearing two spikes and eleven flowers, most like those 
of the Zygopetalum parent, but the pale primrose, minutely fringed lip 
shows the influence of Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii, which is known to 
have been the other parent—a fortunate circumstance, for it is doubtful 
whether anyone would have guessed it without the record, Zygopetalum 
parent being so completely dominant in habit, structure, and colour, that it 
would inevitably have been taken for a new species of Zygopetalum, had it 
appeared as a wild plant. Near it are plants of Zygopetalum Mackayi, 
intermedium and maxillare in bloom. A good plant of Sigmatostalix 
radicans is bearing a profusion of flowers, not unlike a minature Oncidium 
with a white lip. Lanium Berkeleyi, Pleurothallis lateritia, with brick-red 
flowers, and Stelis barbata, with small, very hairy flowers are interesting, 
while a number of the Orchis-like Stenoglottis longifolia are also in bloom. 
In one of the Warm houses two groups of Phalzenopsis Esmeralda are 
bearing a proffusion of erect spikes of light purple flowers, and several 
species of Cirrhopetalum are in bloom, these including C. Micholitzu, 
biflorum, fascinator, ornatissimum, and gracillimum. They are very 
interesting little plants, and there is a quaintness about the flowers that 1s 
very captivating. Several Stanhopeas have recently bloomed, and from the 
size and quaintness of their flowers are always attractive, though they do 
not last long. Near by is a plant of the rare and pretty Bifenaria 
aurantiaca. Ione bicolor quite resembles a small Bulbophyllum we habite 
and is blooming freely, while Bulbophyllum saltatorium 1s almost hike B. 
barbatum with a shorter, denser spike. B. bisetosum is a very quaint little 
Species, and is bearing nine of its slender pendulous spikes. Sa 
Russellianum, Mormolyce lineolata, and Arundina chinenst are * er 
rarities, and Cynoches pentadactylon is bearing a spike of male flowers. 
The list might be much prolonged. 
