164” THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CCGELOGYNE ASPERATA. 
A PLANT of this handsome Bornean species was exhibited by Messrs. Hugh 
Low & Co., at the Temple Show, and received a Botanical Certificate under a 
new name, which appeared in the official list of awards, but need not be further 
recorded, though it affords a striking comment as to the way so fine a plant 
has been almost lost sight of in gardens. It was described by Lindley, in 
1849 (Journ. Hort. Soc., IV, p. 221), from a plant which flowered in 
the collection of T. T. Hodges, Esq., Hemsted Park, ‘in such profusion, 
that not fewer than eight spikes were produced at the same time,” each 
about a foot in length, and bearing from twelve to fourteen flowers, pale 
cream in colour, the lip with a large rugged, orange-brown disc, and 
numerous nerves radiating tothe margin. Shortly afterwards it was described 
and figured under the name of C. Lowii (Paxt. Mag. Bot., XVI, pp. 225, 226, 
with plate, fig. 1, and woodcut), where it is said to have been discovered by 
Mr. Hugh Low, Junr., and sent to Clapton, in October, 1845, and that it first 
flowered in cultivation in the collections of S. Rucker, Esq. and Mr. 
Halford, in May, 1848. It was found in low marshy grounds on the banks 
of the Sarawak River, and is said to be a plant much prized by the -natives. 
On this latter point an interesting article will be found at page 294 of our 
last volume. There is a good figure in the Orchid Album VII, t. 311. It 
is curious how rare so handsome a plant should be in this country, for we 
have been told that it is very commonly cultivated in Singapore, and we | 
believe that it suceeds under the treatment given to C. pandurata. 
AERANTHES DENTIENS. 
A RATHER distinct species of Aéranthes was included in the group exhibited 
by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at the Temple Show, which evidently agrees 
with A. dentiens, Rchb. f., a Madagascar species described in 1885 (Flora, 
LXVIII, p. 381), from a cultivated specimen, but without any further note of 
its origin. There is also a specimen preserved at Kew, which flowered in the 
collection in March, 1883, the plant having been received from Lady 
Ashburton. It differs from the well-known A. grandiflorus, Lindl., in 
having much shorter less acuminate sepals and petals, and the spur simply 
clavate, instead of suddenly inflated on the lower side. The plant 
exhibited seems undeveloped, as the scape was rather short, while in 
the Kew piece it measures two feet long, but wild dried specimens are 
somewhat intermediate in this respect. The flowers are light green and 
the sepals and petals from 1 to 1} inches long. 
hk. A. BR. 
