262 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT BURFORD. 
ONE of the features of a large and varied collection is that there is 
always something of interest in flower, even at the dullest season of the 
year, and this was specially apparent in looking through the fine collection 
of Sir Trevor Lawrence, at Burford, Dorking, some few days ago. Here 
may be seen many interesting rarities which are seldom met with else- 
where, and as the well-known showy species and hybrids are equally 
well represented there is both great variety and a constant succession 
of flowers. 
One of the first plants noted the other day was the new Stanhopea 
Rodigasiana, which is remarkable for the almost hatchet-shaped horns 
of the lip, which with other anomalies almost constitute it a new section 
of the genus. Dendrobium Huttoni was also interesting, for, although 
one parent of the well-known D. x rhodostoma, we do not remember to 
have met with it before. The beautiful violet-blue D. Victoria-Regina was ° 
also flowering freely from bulbs made in this country—those previously 
produced were on imported ones—and being borne with the leaves were 
very effective. Two other species in flower were D. aqueum and D. 
gracile, the last being very rare. Cycnoches maculatum was bearing a 
fine spike of male flowers, as was also the remarkable Catasetum 
tabulare. By the way, we believe the other sex of both these species is 
still unknown. 
Polystachya Lawrenceana is a pretty little plant, its rosy purple lip 
contrasting effectively with the green of the sepals and petals. P. 
odorata bears panicles of yellowish green flowers. Among Maxillarias 
were noted M. fucata, Hubschii, and molitor, three rare and pretty species 
of the grandiflora group, and among Oncidiums the handsome O. spilop- 
terum, a fine example of O. trulliferum, O. dasytyle, O. X prestans, 
good specimens of O. ornithorhynchum and incurvum, O. cristatum, O- 
macranthum, and two or three others, this genus being very well 
represented. Two good plants of Odontoglossum aspidorhinum were 
flowering very freely, one bearing as many as twenty spikes, besides 
which O. Uroskinneri and the very distinct variety album were in bloom, 
together with a curious green form of O. ramosissum, which also differs 
much in habit from the white, purple-spotted form, and it seems possible 
that more than one species is included under this name. Miltonia 
Schroederiana, a handsome species from Costa Rica, was also finely in 
flower. 
Among Epidendrums may be mentioned the handsome E. fulgens, E. 
= x O’Brienianum), a very interesting hybrid 
page 10 of the present volume, the curious little E. 
