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cultivation. This group appears to represent a more primitive stage of 
development than the others. In C. longifolium, however, a pair of short 
rudimentary antenne are present. 
I hope these notes may serve to call further attention to this very 
interesting but difficult group, and induce someone to get together a fairly 
complete collection. They are remarkable in structure, and a few even 
beautiful, while, if well grown, they would assuredly yield some surprises. 
Some are still very imperfectly known, but I hope in time to be able to 
complete my monograph of the genus. 
, 2 pee = R.A; KOLFE. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS LIONEL CRAWSHAY. 
A flower of the splendid variety of Odontoglossum triumphans, called 
Lionel Crawshay, which received a First-class Certificate at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s meeting on April 9th, has been sent by De Barri ° 
Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. It is characterised by its very’ 
broad segments, which give the flower a very full and round appearance. 
The dorsal sepal is ten lines broad, and not quite twice as long, and the 
slightly-toothed petals an inch broad at the widest part. The lip is a little 
narrower than the petals, and the blade nearly as broad as long, giving it a 
very round appearance. The flower is very heavily blotched with brown, 
which almost covers the sepals except at the tips. The disc and narrow 
margin of the lip are yellow, and the petals prettily variegated with the 
same colour between the large blotches. 
ANGRAECUM SESQUIPEDALE. 
I enclose a photograph of the above-named plant, which is flowering 
very freely, and may be of interest to the readers of the Orchid Review. 
Last year this plant had twelve flowers, and now it carries sixteen. We 
grow it in the warm division, on the shady side of the house, removing it 
when in flower to the warm end of the Intermediate house. One of the 
flower spikes was produced from the stem below the leaves. The photo- 
graph was taken by one of Messrs. Beck’s “‘ Frenas,” a most useful camera 
for plant portraits, as by using magnifiers you can take the photo at a 
distance of three to four and a half feet from the plant. The one I took 
was about the latter distance, and no focusing required. 
H. GURNEY AGGS. 
Pippbrook, Dorking. 
[The photograph sent is an excellent one, and shows a well-grown plant 
of this useful winter-flowering Orchid.—Ep. ] 
