3oo THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



£4 10s. ; Lycaste Skinneri, £4 ; and several Sobralia macrantha, £6 to 

 £26 5s. each. And among other things we find Robert Fortune 

 describing the beneficial effects of a lower temperature for Orchids, as 

 practised in the Horticultural Society's Garden, the essentials being a cooler 

 temperature with plenty of moisture. 



Cymbidium Devonianum was described and figured for the first time in 

 Paxton's Magazine of Botany for 1843 (t. 97). It was discovered on the 

 Khasia Hills by Gibson, and sent to Chatsworth in 1837, where it flowered 

 in the spring of 1843, and was dedicated to the Duke of Devonshire. 

 Gibson found it growing on the trunks of decayed trees, and in the forks 

 of the branches, where some vegetable matter had collected. 



Among the striking novelties which appeared in the Botanical Register 

 for 1844 we may first mention Anguloa Clowesii (Misc., p. 26). Lindley 

 remarked :— " At last a genuine species of the genus Anguloa, which has 

 hitherto puzzled everyone, has made its appearance, in the collection of 

 the Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall, near Manchester, who obtained it 

 from Linden's Columbian collections. It is indeed a noble plant. The 

 flowers are four inches in diameter, of a clear lemon yellow, with a pure 

 white lip." It flowered in March, and in the following month a second 

 species appeared in the collection of G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham 

 namely the original A. uniflora, which had not hitherto been seen in 

 cultivation. It was figured at t. 60, and A. Clowesii at t. 63, when the 

 history of their introduction is thus given by Lindley :— " By the enterprise 

 of a few English gentlemen, who had the spirit to defray the cost of a 

 collector in the rich country once known as the kingdom of" New Granada, 

 has one of the greatest botanical puzzles been at last obtained. Mr. Barker's 

 species was figured in the last number, that before us is from Mr. Clowes, 

 and a third species, with spotted flowers, still undescribed, has blossomed 

 with Mr. Rucker, all of whom were the supporters of Mr. Linden's 

 expedition." This third species was A. Ruckeri, which was figured at 

 t. 41 of the volume for 1846. 



A new Odontoglossum appeared at t. 39, namely O. Iseve, and it is 

 said that both Mr. Skinner and Mr. Hartweg found this plant abundantly 

 in Guatemala and sent it home to their friends, so that it was by no means 

 rare in collections. The drawing was made in the Horticultural Society's 

 garden, in May, 1842. 



Another interesting novelty was Angrscum pellucidum (t. 2), which 

 flowered with Messrs. Loddiges in the previous November, and of which 

 Lindley remarks :— " We lament to see how little justice our artists have 

 been able to do to this beautiful plant, whose flowers are as delicate and 

 transparent as if they were flakes of snow fixed by frost in the very act 

 -of melting." 



