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the general habit of V. teres, with the form of flower of V. Hookeriana, and 
the colour of the V. teres parent. It is described as a very lovely plant and 
a great improvement on both parents. The plant was said to be then in 
the Botanic Garden, Singapore, where it was being propagated from 
cuttings. Some of these were afterwards sent to England, and in June, 
1897, it flowered for the first time in Europe in the collection of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., at Burford, and received a First-class Certificate from the 
R.H.S. The plant was between seven and eight feet high, and when 
exhibited bore a spike of three expanded blooms and nine buds. It is a far 
more robust grower than V. Hookeriana, from which its tall habit is chiefly 
derived, and it also resembles this parent in the broadly dilated front lobe 
of the lip, though the colour is much more like V. teres. The name was 
modified into its present form, Vanda Joaquimiz, in accordance with the 
rule for naming primary hybrids (Orchid Stud-Book, p. 236). It is a great 
beauty, and it is believed that all the plants in cultivation have been 
propagated from the original one, this being one of the comparatively few 
hybrid Orchids which lend themselves to propagation by this means. It 
succeeds well under the same treatment as V. teres, namely a light position 
in the Warm house, with practically nothing in the way of shading. These 
terete-leaved Orchids seem to grow naturally in open situations, and are not 
affected by bright sunlight like the shade-loving species. 
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MAXILLARIA NASUTA. 
Tuis rare Maxillaria has just flowered among the Colombian importations 
of Mr. J. Birchenall, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, a flower sent to Kew for 
determination proving identical with that originally described by 
Reichenbach (Beitr. Orch. Centr. Amer., p. 104). It is said to have been 
originally discovered by Schlim, at Lasita, in New Grenada, but after- 
wards it was collected in Costa Rica by Tucker, when collecting for Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co. It was also met with in Costa Rica by Endres, who 
sent plants to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, one of which flowered in the 
collection of the late W. Wilson Saunders, and was figured in his 
Refugium Botancum (ii. t. 103), under the name of M. nasalis, which is 
only a mistake for M. nasuta. Reichenbach described it as a most peculiar 
species, only comparable with his M. proboscidea, a Venezuelan species 
collected at 5,000 feet elevation in Caracas, by Wagener, and which still 
appears to be only known from description. The scapes are about six 
inches high, clothed with imbricate sheaths, and the flowers are over an 
inch long, with very acute greenish yellow sepals and petals, and a shining 
red-purple lip, margined with yellow, and very strongly recurved at the apex. 
The leaves are broad and about twice as long as the scapes. 
R.A.R. 
