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the sphagnum in a growing condition. The East Indian house is the - 
proper place for it the whole year round. 
Another interesting plant is the hybrid Epidendrum x O’Brienianum. 
Last May it was exhibited at the Temple Show with several spikes of 
bloom, one of which has continued to produce flowers ever since; in 
fact, since that period there has never been less than a dozen flowers 
open at one time. Altogether there has been 112 flowers on the one 
spike, and now there are about twenty more to open. A plant of 
Cypripedium Chamberlainianum has also been in bloom since last May, 
and there are several more flowers now to open. Messrs. Veitch’s charming 
hybrid, Epiphronitis x Veitchii, is a plant well worth adding to any 
collection. The plant measures a little over a foot high, and the 
spike has a dozen flowers and buds altogether. It is certainly a 
beautiful plant, of easy cultivation, requiring to be grown in an 
intermediate temperature the whole year round. An old Orchid not 
often met with is Maxillaria lepidota, but when seen, as here, with about 
200 blooms on one specimen, no one could fail to appreciate its beautiful 
effect. It succeeds admirably in an Odontoglossum house temperature. 
The new Eulophiella Elisabethz will be in bloom ere this is in print, four 
plants having altogether nine spikes. One of the principal attractions at 
this time is a fine specimen of the brilliant Sophronitis grandiflora. A few 
years ago the plant had only about a dozen blooms on it. In 1893, when 
it was exhibited at the R.H.S., it had forty blooms, and was awarded a 
Silver Medal by the Orchid Committee. In 1894 it produced sixty blooms, 
and at the present time it has sixty-two. One other special plant in bloom 
must not be omitted, that is Dendrobium lituiflorum candidum. It is 
a distinct and beautiful variety, the flowers rather larger than in the type, 
the sepals and petals pure white, and the lip very pale sulphur-yellow. It 
is very doubtful if this variety is represented in any other collection. 
PLEUROTHALLIS BICARINATA. 
The species of Pleurothallis are, with few exceptions, only plants of 
botanical interest, yet they are continually turning up in various collections, 
and in the aggregate a considerable number must be in cultivation. The 
present one, which was originally introduced from Brazil, and flowered with 
Messrs. Loddiges in 1838, has again turned up in the South Brazilian 
importations of Messrs. F. Sander & Co. It was described by Lindley as 
P. bicarinata (Bot. Reg., xxv. Misc., p. 14), evidently in allusion to the 
two keels which run down from the base of the leaf to the first node, below 
which the stem is terete. It belongs to the group Sicarie, and bears a 
raceme of about seven dull yellow flowers with some dusky brown on the 
inside of the lateral sepals and lip. The plant is about a foot high. 
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