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characters, except that the flowers are occasionally rather smaller than 
above described, and evidently represents a quite distinct species. Besides 
few-flowered, and the elongated character of the sepals and petals is just as 
marked as is that of the pseudobulbs and leaves. The lip is relatively — 
much larger and less acuminate. The flowers are straw-coloured, with 
numerous radiating red-purple lines on the lip. On the whole it seems 4 
nearer to E. ionophlebium, Rchb. f., from Costa Rica, than to E. fragrans. — 
It has now flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
OBITUARY. 
WE regret to hear of the death of Mr. James Anderson, which took place at 
the characters just mentioned, it should be pointed out that the present one y 
has diphyllous pseudobulbs, while in E. fragrans they are generally, ifnot — 
invatiably, monophyllous. The raceme of the former is also very short and — : 
Glasgow on June 16th, after an illness of several months duration. The — 
deceased, who had attained the age of sixty-seven, was well known in 
horticultural circles, and was for many years gardener to T. Dawson, Esq.; 
of Meadow Bank, near Glasgow, the possessor of one of the finest Orchid 
collections of the period. After Mr. Dawson’s death, Mr. Anderson 
established himself near Glasgow as a landscape gardener and _ horticultural 
expert, but soon removed his business to the neighbourhood of Manchester. 
He was also employed on the Epping Forest Commission. As a contributor 
_ to the Press, he was also well known, as for many years he acted as a 
correspondent of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and brought out a work entitled 
The Practical Gardener, besides acting as Editor to the Northern Gardener 
during the short period of its existence. Mr. Anderson was a very successful 
cultivator of Orchids, for which he gained numerous awards. There is 2 
legend that he gained the Lindley Medal, an award instituted by the : 
R.H.S. in commemoration of Dr. Lindley, and to be given preferentially 
for excellence in cultivation. This, however, is incorrect, as Mr. Anderson 
himself has stated, though the two examples of Odontoglossum grande sent 
up from Meadow Bank quite thirty years ago are said to have been such as : 
had never been seen before, and, according to Mr. Barron, no such 
specimens have been submitted in London since. Each bore a branched 
panicle, one with fifteen and the other with sixteen flowers, of extraordinary 
size, substance, and colour. The history of the question may be found in — 
our fifth volume (pp. 354, 355). Mr. Anderson retained his interest i0 
Orchids to the last, and was one of the founders of the Manchester and — 
North of England Orchid Society, and a member of the Committee. His : 
name will be kept in perpetual remembrance by the familiar Odontoglossum 
x Andersonianum, which was dedicated to him by Reichenbach in 1868. 
