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judge of its merits. It is said to have been introduced by M. A. Bogaerde, 
in 1895, and to have now flowered for the first time, a small plant ina 
60-sized pot, so that it has not yet reached its maximum development. The 
spike only was exhibited at the meeting, and one can hardly wonder that 
Mr. Crawshay should hesitate to expose such a plant to the vicissitudes 
incidental to a journey to the Drill Hall at this season. The flowers are 
remarkable both for the breadth of the segments and the heavy blotching, 
and in the latter respect it is doubtful’whether its equal has yet been seen. 
In shape it resembles the original plant of O. x Andersonianum more than 
many of the forms which have since appeared, but the segments are broader. 
The colour is light yellow, tinted with rose on the sepals, and the markings 
deep rich crimson-brown. Mr. Crawshay must be congratulated upon 
the possession of such an exceptionally fine variety. = 
BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
AMONG the numerous interesting Botanical Orchids flowering at Kew are 
several Catasetums, as C. fimbriatum, with its expanded and prettily fringed 
lip, the rare C. Russellianum, C. uncatum, C. macrocarpum, C. Bungerothii, 
and the handsome natural hybrid between the two latter, known as C. X 
splendens. The remarkable Cycnoches Egertonianum has also produced 
another long raceme of its dull purple flowers. A good plant of the 
Mauritian Cirrhopetalum Thouarsii is interesting as the original species of 
the genus, and also because of its resemblance to the Burmese C. picturatum. 
Bulbophyllum occultum is another remarkable. Mauritian Orchid, which 
bears a triangular raceme composed of imbricating bracts arranged in three 
rows, behind which the flowers are hidden, hence the name. B. barbigerum 
is again flowering, and can scarcely escape notice,’ for the slightest © 
movement of the air is sufficient to set the hairy lips in motion. B. 
odoratissimum and B. apodum may also be included. Trias disciflora is a 
large-flowered representative of a closely allied genus. Bartholina pectinata 
is a small South African Orchid which bears solitary flowers whose lip 1s 
broken up into numerous radiating segments, and quite unique in its way. 
The rare Cyrtopera plantaginea has also flowered, together _ with the 
curious little Ornithidium nanum, Liparis reflexa, Pleurothallis_picta 
crowded with flowers, the rare Costa Rican P. platyrhachis, a good 
specimen of Dendrobium alpestre, and the coral pink Rodriguezia secunda. 
The graceful Epidendrum purum is producing several panicles of its 
greenish-white flowers. Mystacidium distichum is a remarkable little 
species with equitant leaves and small white axillary flowers. Colax 
jugosus and the rare C, Puydtii may also be mentioned, 
