eS THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
as those of a Platyclinis, and the milk-white flowers with deep yellow lip 
have a pleasing fragrance like new-mown hay. Placed on a block in the 
warm house, it grows almost like a weed, losing its leaves in the autumn— 
for it is deciduous—and soon afterwards pushing up its racemes in quantity. 
These qualities, added to its habit of flowering just in the dead of winter, 
should secure for it a place in collections where it is yet unknown. 
The lengthening days remind me that the season of renewed activity 
is again at hand. Already species of Phalenopsis, Cattleya Triane, the 
polymorphic Odontoglossom x Andersonianum, and numerous Dendrobiums 
are out, while others are coming on apace. Ere my next notes appear we 
shall have fairly commenced the busy season, when some interesting develop- 
ments may be anticipated. 
ARGUS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x BUCHANIANUM MAGNIFICUM. 
The original Cypripedium x Buchanianum is a charming little hybrid . 
which was raised by Mr. T. Osborne, gardener to the late H. J. Buchan, 
Esq., Wilton House, Southampton, from C. Druryi 2 and C. Spicerianum 4, 
and flowered for the first time in December, 1887. The reverse cross has 
been raised and has now flowered in the collection of R. I. Measures, Esq., 
Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, and is so much finer as to merit the above 
name. Comparing the two flowers sent, we note that the new variety has 
a far larger dorsal sepal, reaching two inches and three-eighths broad, the 
petals an inch broad near the apex, and the lip correspondingly larger and 
lighter in colour, while the staminode, on the other hand, is a line narrower, 
more folded behind, and the margin and disc white with a small green 
tubercle in the centre. In each case the characters of C. Spicerianum 
preponderate, though traces of yellow in the flower and a dark band down 
the petals show the influence of C. Druryi. The new variety is a very 
decided improvement, and a useful addition to the winter flowering group. 
NOVELTIES. 
BULBOPHYLLUM PTERIPHILUM, Rolfe.—A very distinct species, which 
flowered at Kew in September last, in clumps of the remarkable fern, 
Lecanopteris carnosa, whose rhizomes are tenanted by ants. It was sent by 
Mr. C. Curtis, of the Forest Department, Penang. The small white 
flowers are borne in racemes.—Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 391. 
