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as the flowers are much below the normal size. It is curious that the lip is 
only affected in size, not in the number of spots, and this seems to have 
been the case with Mr. Crawshay’s plant. The behaviour of the plant at 
its next time of flowering should be noted, as it is interesting to know how 
far variation of this kind is due to vigour and good culture.—Eb. | 
AN ALBINO GONGORA. 
SOME years ago, a friend about to leave the Colony gave me a small plant 
of Gongora, which he had bought from a local collector, and which, on my 
advice, he had carefully tended, as there appeared to be something 
uncommon in the colour of its pseudobulbs. 
Shortly after the plant came into my possession, it blossomed, and, as I 
had suspected, it turned out to be something apparently new. 
Of the habit of G. atropurpurea, but even more robust, and with deeply- 
channelled and tapering pseudobulbs, slightly serrated at their apices, the 
new plant differed even more by producing from the base of its pseudobulbs 
(as is usual with all Gongoras) ivory-white spikes, which bore immaculate 
flowers of the same colour. These pendent spikes were from 24 to 30 inches 
in length, and the flowers were very fragrant, lasting, also, some weeks in 
beauty. 
Since then the plant has grown vigorously, and flowers regularly in 
February, but though I have never ceased to search for another of its kind, 
I have not yet been successful. 
In February last it was three feet or more in width, and produced 25 
spikes, with about 30 pure ivory-white flowers on each spike. It then 
received a first prize in a Horticultural Show here, and a special - prize for 
the best plant in the Show, and won the admiration of all who saw it. 
Perhaps some of your readers can say what variety of Gongora it is, or 
whether it is something new. 
Port of Spain, f Wey Oke 
Trinidad, B.W.I. 
‘Itis highly probable that this is an albino of Gongora nigrita, Lindl., 
of which an account was given at page 341 of our last volume, though the 
point can only be settled with certainty on comparision of living or dried 
flowers. Both the species and its white variety are natives of British 
Guiana, and it is not unlikely that they may also occur in Trinidad, though 
the point still remains to be settled. It is just possible that G, atropurpurea 
and G. nigrita are not always distinguished from each other, though in the 
structure of the lip they are appreciably different, but the latter only differs 
from its white variety in colour.—Eb.] 
