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SEPTEMBER, 1911. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 273 
species was originally described about ninety years ago by Thouars (Orch. 
Iles Afr., t. 15), from dried specimens, collected in the Island of Bourbon, 
where it was afterwards collected by Balfour. It flowered at Kew in 
December, 1900, and shortly afterwards was figured in the Botanical 
Magazine (t. 7852). Curiously enough, the name had been usurped 
C. Lowiana, Rchb. f., which had previously been figured in the same work 
as C. purpurascens (t. 7551), though the mistake was at once detected when 
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the true plant appeared. The plant bears a single large leaf, and. an 
Fig. 30. CyYNORCHIS LOWIANA. 
umbellate inflorescence of bright purple flowers, with a white blotch on the 
disc of the lip. It is a plant of easy culture, and succeeds well in a mixture 
of rough peat and sphagnum moss in an intermediate temperature. Deep 
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pans form suitable receptacles to grow it in. Although thie leaves are 
deciduous, M. Warpur states that the plant is never in a state of complete 
rest, for as soon as the old leaf and spike are over the rhizome begins to 
push forth new shoots, consequently it should never be dried off. It requires 
a plentiful supply of water and moderate shade when actively growing. = It 
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may ve interesting xy to recall the note that oir -lrevor Lawrence had last 
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year piants that were still Srowlng in the ori ii fibre in lich they wer 
