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when very old pollen is used. He also finds old bracken rvots an excellent 
substitute for crocks in the baskets used. 
Mr. Moore has also some good capsules of the Cattleya group, as C. 
Harrisoniana X Warscewiczii, and C. amethystoglossa x Sophronitis 
grandiflora. C. velutina x Warscewiczii had been sown, also L. tenebrosa 
crossed with the same species. This capsule contained an enormous 
quantity of good seed, and some of it was germinating well. 
Mr. Moore has been very successful in cultivating his plants, and has 
made a promising commencement in hybridising. We hope he will be 
equally successful in the later stages. 
NEW ORCHIDS. 
In the July-August number of the Kew Bulletin, just issued, a number of 
interesting new Orchids are described by Mr. Rolfe, mostly from New 
Guinea and Celebes. Those from the former island were collected by 
Mr. A. Giulianetti, and comprise four novelties from an altitude of 12,200 
feet on Mount Scratchley, namely, Dendrobium rigidifolium, a member of 
the D. veratrifolium group; D. brevicaule, a remarkable alpine species of 
the Pedilonum group, only a few inches high, and bearing proportionately 
very large flowers; Giulianettia tenuis, a remarkable new genus, allied to 
Ceratostylis (also figured at t. 2616 of the Icones Plantarum) ; and Ptero- 
stylis papuana, a member of a genus hitherto only known from Australia, 
New Zealand and New Caledonia. Two others are Calanthe Englishii, 
from 4,000 feet elevation on the same mountain, and Glomera papuana, an 
interesting addition to a genus which previously contained one species from 
Java and another from F ji. Decades 23 and 24 of “‘ New Orchids” are, 
with the exception of two species of Vanilla, devoted to novelties collected 
in North-East Celebes by Dr. S. H. Koorders, of the Forest Administra- 
tion of Java, and are as follows :—-Microstylis repens, M. cordifolia, 
Dendrobium parvulum, Cirrhopetalum Koordersii, Eria tricuspidata, E. 
celebica, Phreatia Koordersii, P. celebica, Calanthe celebica, Trichoglottis 
oblongifolia, T. celebica, T. Koordersii, Wanda celebica, Cleisostoma 
Koordersii, Teniophyllum celebicum, Appendicula longipedunculata, 
Macodes celebica, and Peristylus bilobus. The two Vanillas are V. Hartii, 
a native of Trinadad, sent by Mr. J. H. Hart)-F.L:S:. Superintendent of 
the Royal Botanic Gardens there, and V. fimbriata, from the Barima River, 
British Guiana, collected by G. S. Jenman, F.L.S., Government Botanist. 
None of these plants are at present in cultivation. 
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