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than the aborigines of the Great Andaman, their ornaments being composed 
ofit. . . . . The people of the western tribe of Torres Straits, who in 
their customs greatly resemble the Andamanese, make a similar use of 
Orchid bark; specimens are probably in the British Museum (see a paper 
by Professor A. C. Haddon in the Journal of the Anthropological Instituie, 
November 26, 1889, pp. 385, 386).’”’ 
ORCHIDS AT GODALMING. 
ELsTEAD House, Godalming, the residence of C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., 
is familiar to our readers as the source of many fine hybrids of the 
Cattleya group, which have been raised by Mr. Bond, Mr. Ingram’s able 
gardener, and as we had the pleasure of looking through the collection a 
few days ago, we made the following hasty notes. Six or seven houses 
are mostly devoted to Orchids, of which the number is estimated to exceed 
six thousand, the plants being in that thriving condition which indicates 
that their requirements are well looked after. The large Cattleya house 
contains about two thousand plants in various stages, those in flower at 
the time of our visit including a good series of C. Gaskelliana and 
Warscewiczii, a fine variety of the former showing a large amount of 
yellow on the lip’s disc, and one of the latter having the eye-like blotches 
quite white. Of C. Eldorado some pretty forms were noticed, and an 
exceptionally large and handsome form of C. Leopoldi. The only Lelia 
observed was L. crispa, which has the merit of flowering at this com- 
paratively dull season, so far as Orchids are concerned. Lzlio-cattleya 
X Schilleriana was represented by a variety with blush-pink sepals and 
petals, and L.-c. x elegans by a good richly-coloured form. The most 
interesting of home-raised hybrids in flower was L.-c. X Elstead Gem, a 
striking hybrid derived from Lelia xanthina and Cattleya bicolor, which 
has bright greenish-yellow sepals and petals, white side lobes to the lip— 
which are much better developed than might have been excepted—and a 
brilliant amethyst front lobe, the three colours forming a very effective 
contrast. A seedling from Lelia Dayana @ and L. anceps ¢ was also 
producing a first flower, the peduncle being very short, and the colour 
purple, but evidently not yet properly developed. Another promising 
seedling just flowering is descended from Cattleya Lawrenceana and C. 
Triane. Ccelogyne Massangeana was also flowering freely here. 
Two Cool houses contain a good collection of Odontoglossums and 
others requiring similar treatment, very few being now in flower, though 
we observed a good plant of Lycaste cruenta. There is also a good house 
of Dendrobiums, containing numerous species and hybrids, most of them 
