“3° THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Dendrobium, Eria, Cattleya, Bulbophyllum, and Stanhopea, &c.; in the 
cooler, those of Cymbidium, Sobralia, Maxillaria, Epidendrum, Ccelogyne, 
Lelia, &c. The northern (right-hand) range has ordinary stages on both 
sides, that on the left being over atank. The warm portion is devoted to 
such genera as Vanda, Aerides, Phalznopsis, Angreecum, Cypripedium, and 
Aneectochilus; the cool to Odontoglossum, Masdevallia, Oncidium, Lycaste, 
&c. These ranges, which are open to the public, now contain a large pro- 
portion of plants which are permanently cultivated in them. They still 
serve, as before, for the exhibition when in flower of those which require 
special cultural treatment in the Orchid pits. These pits are connected 
with the exhibition houses by a glazed corridor, which also communicates 
with a new potting shed. 
OBITUARY. 
WE regret to learn of the death, on July r4th, after a very short illness, of 
Major Mason, J-P., of The Firs, Warwick. The deceased gentleman, who 
was in his seventy-ninth year, has long been known to Orchid growers as 
the possessor of a fine representative collection, and at the time of his 
death was a member of the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, besides having formerly served on the Council. During early life 
he was in the service of the East India Company. 
CORYANTHES MASTERIANA. 
Tus interesting species has just flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking. It was described in 1891 by Lehmann 
(Gard. Chron., 1891, x, p- 483), as a plant of Colombian origin, where it 
§tows on trees or woody lianas, not far above the ground, in dense and 
exuberantly-developed woods at the lower extremity of the valley of the 
Cauca at an elevation from 800 to 1,100 métres. The plants were said to 
be large and very floriferous, and the spike stiff, upright, and two to three- 
flowered. In the details of the lip it does not quite agree with the original 
description, which runs as follows :— 
‘The lip, connected with the column by a short, thin arm at a right 
angle, consists of a thick, deep, bell-shaped hypochil, which is 2°5 cm. in 
diameter, 2 cm. deep, and with a smooth limb ; a thick, fleshy, cymbiform, 
gibbous mesochil, which, on its outside, bears three large, tooth-shaped 
callosities, of which the lower one is the largest, and hidden in the hood 
of the hypochil; and a large, bell-shaped epichil, which has a two-lobed 
margin, and a fleshy, deep, tridentate apex. The colour cannot be given - 
