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and the colour intense deep maroon-purple, except that the apical margin, 
and a small area in front of the sac, are yellowish white. The sepals and 
petals are also yellowish white, the latter being barred and spotted with 
maroon-purple on the basal half, in which respect, as also in shape, they 
resemble C. macrocarpum. ‘The raceme bears fourteen flowers. The plant 
appeared in a recent importation made by Messrs. Linden, which yielded 
the remarkable C. x splendens and its varieties described at p. 355 of the 
last volume. It is evidently a natural hybrid between C. Bungerothii and 
C. macrocarpum, and thus another form of the same series, which may be 
called C. x splendens var. imperiale. The intense colour of the lip is 
remarkable, but not inexplicable, for there are some forms of C. macro- 
carpum, which have the inside of this organ of an even deeper colour, 
which has been reproduced in the hybrid. The more brilliant colour results 
from the absence of green in the flower. The crest of C. macrocarpum is 
practically obsolete, as in one or two of those previously described. It is 
the richest coloured Catasetum which I have yet seen, and one can only 
regret that it is likely to remain rare, if not indeed unique. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
NOVELTIES. 
Vanpa KIMBALLIANA VAR. LACKNER#, Kranzl.—A beautiful albino, which 
appeared in the collection of Mr. C. Lackner, at Steglitz, near Berlin.— 
Gard. Chron., Oct. 27, p. 498. 
BULBOPHYLLUM PERPUSILLUM, Wendl. and Kranzl.—A very minute 
species from Madagascar, which flowered in June last, at Herrenhausen, 
under the care of M. Wendland. The minute flowers are white, the petals 
suffused with rose, and the callus of the lip hairy—Gard. Chron., Nov. 17, 
P- 592. 
BULBOPHYLLUM JoHANNIS, Wendl. and Kranzl.—Another minute Mada- 
gascar species, like the preceding, sent home by the late Mr. Johannes 
Braun, and flowered at Herrenhausen. The minute flowers are white.— 
Gard. Chron., Nov. 17, p- 592- 
CATASETUM CHLORANTHUM, Cogn.—A Peruvian species introduced by 
Messrs. Linden, L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, with whom it has 
flowered. It is allied to C. macrocarpum, and has pale green flowers, with 
some rosy spots on the petals, and a few obscure ones on the base of the 
sepals.— fourn. des Orch., Nov. I, p- 252. 
CATASETUM PALLIDUM, Cogn.—A Columbian species, 
to C. Finetianum, L. Lind. and Cogn., but with shorter segments and some 
differences in the details of the lip. The flowers are whitish green. It 
also was introduced by Messrs. Linden.—fourn. des Orch., Nov. 1, Pp» 252s 
very nearly allied 
