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it should increase it would prove a great pest, being ‘‘ wonderfully active.” 
We should be glad to know if others have observed this insect. 
A plant of Cattleya Bowringiana, in the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq.; o_ 
of Florence, has produced a bulblet at the apex of a pseudobulb, just on the 
seat of an old flower sheath, and, as we learn from Mr. Ross, is rapidly 
developing into a sturdy little plant. It has eighteen healthy roots, which 
are fast travelling over the parent leaves. We believe such cases are rare. 
The European genus Epipactis has just been detected in Tropical Africa, 
specimens having been collected by Mr. Scott Elliot on Mount Ruwenzori 
at 8,000 to 10,000 feet elevation, among heather. The species is described in 
the August number of the Journal of Botany as E. africana, Rendle. 
Several flowers of the pretty little hybrid Masdevallia x Fraseri have 
been received from Captain Hincks, of Richmond, Yorks. They most 
resemble M. ignea in shape, but the colour shows the influence of the other 
parent, M. coccinea. 
A flower of Cattleya citrina aurantiaca, which has been noted in our 
pages on more than one occasion, has been sent by R. B. Macbean, Esq., 
of Lancaster. It is a decided improvement on the typical form, and seems 
quite constant in character. 
A magnificent six-flowered raceme of the beautiful Cattleya Warscewiczii 
has been sent from the collection of R. B. White, Esq., of Arddarroch, by 
Mr. Roberts, which illustrates what the species is capable of under good 
culture. The petals are 4} inches long by 2% inches broad, and the lip 
attains the same length with a nearly circular expanded front lobe 23 inches 
broad. In colour it is about typical, the sepals and petals being bright rosy- 
lilac, and the lip rich purple-crimson, with the two characteristic eyes in 
the throat large and well-developed, bright yellow on the side next the 
disc, and passing to primrose at the other side. The effect is superb. 
A flower of the distinct and striking Warscewiczella Wendlandii, Rchb. 
f., comes from the collection of J. D. Hodgson, Esq., of Newcastle-on- _ 
Tyne. It bloomed in a pot of W. discolor, and the leaves of the two are 
so much alike that no difference was observed until the flowers appeared. 
Both are natives of Costa Rica, and evidently grow together. 
The Dendrobium Phalznopsis hololeuca which obtained a First-class 
Certificate from the R. H. S. the other day has passed into the 
collection of E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, who sends one 
of its beautiful pure white flowers. He has six or seven nearly white forms, 
but this is the only pure albino. 
