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membrane, and so delicately balanced as to rock backwards and forwards 
on the slightest touch. The colour is light green with brownish margin, 
and some dull purple spots at the sides. The face of the very short column 
is covered with minute brown dots, also the base of the lateral sepals. 
The plant has the usual creeping habit of the genus, one-leaved pseudo- 
bulbs, and solitary-flowered scapes about eight or nine inches long. It is 
said to have been obtained from Messrs. Linden, in 1887. The species was 
said to have been introduced to cultivation some years ago, but the evidence 
rests on a misidentification of Reichenbach’s, and the species figured in 
Lindenia iii., p. 27, t. 108 (B. grandiflorum, Rchb. f., not of Blume) 
requires a new name; it may, therefore, be called B. longisepalum, in 
allusion to its long attenuated sepals. It also belongs to the section 
Sarcopodium, and is a native of New Guinea. RK. (Ai; Bee 
BRASSAVOLA CUSPIDATA. 
A plant of the very remarkable Brassavola cuspidata, Hook., has flowered 
in the collection of Dr. G. M. Lowe, Castle Hill House, Lincoln. The 
habit is pendulous, and the leaves are much like those of a small Scuticaria. 
The pedicelled ovary is no less than 7% inches long, the sepals and petals 
narrowly lanceolate, long acuminate, and rather less than half as long, and 
the lip with a cordate, much-fringed basal portion, and a long acuminate 
apex. The colour is white. Like other species of the genus, it may be 
grown on a block suspended from the roof in: the warm house, no shade 
being required. The plants should be well watered during the growing 
season, but the leaves being succulent, a much smaller amount suffices 
when at rest. The present species is very rare in cultivation, but is very 
interesting on account of its remarkable flowers. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE PULCHELLUM. 
A very pretty variety of Cypripedium insigne has recently been received 
from Mr. H. T. Clinkaberry, gardener to C. J. Roebling, Esq., Trenton, 
New Jersey, which is quite distinct from anything given in the list at page 8. 
It was received by Mr. Féstermann in a consignment sent from the Khasia 
Hills by his collector, Massmann, and has now flowered for the first time 
in cultivation. It is allied to C. i. albomaculatum, the dorsal sepal being 
yellow with a narrow white margin all round. On either side of the midrib 
are situated two rows of small brown spots, and outside these two more 
rows of minute dots. The largest spots are only a line broad, and the 
majority very minute and numerous towards the base. The front of 
the lip and superior halves of the petals are bright brown, the remainder 
being nearly yellow. The flower is medium-sized, and in other respects 
typical. 
