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confused (Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind., v., p. 773). It differs, among other 
characters, in having solitary flowers, in which respect it is allied to C. 
merguense, Rchb’ f. It is a native of warm valleys in Sikkim, and flowered 
in the collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq.,'Colesbourne, Gloucestershire, in 
October, 1896. The flower is large, more or less veined and speckled with 
reddish purple on a pale green ground, and the sepals and petals beara 
number of purple, leaf-like appendages attached by a filiform base. 
PANISEA TRICALLOSA (p. 148).—A native of Assam, which flowered in 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in April, 1896. The flowers are 
pale, translucent, yellowish green, with three yellow calli on the disc, tipped 
with brown. 
CATASETUM QUADRIDENS (p. 149).—Purchased at the sale of the Hon. 
Walter Rothschild’s collection, and flowered at Kew in December, 1898. 
The habitat is unknown. It is allied to C. cornutum, Lindl., and is 
remarkable for the presence of a pair of short, acute teeth, situated at the 
lower angles of the abortive stigma, in addition to the usual pair of antenne. 
The flowers are light green, blotched all over with dark brown. 
ORNITHOCEPHALUS MULTIFLORUS (p. 149).—A Brazilian species: 
mported by M. Binot, which flowered at Kew in June, 1898. It is notedas 
a very graceful and floriferous species, having the flowers white, with the 
exception of the incurved apex of the crest, which is bright green. In 
habit it is remarkably distinct, differing from all others except O. grandi- 
florus, Lind]., in having flat, not ensiform leaves. 
AERANTHES CAUDATA (p. 149).—A distinct and remarkable Madagascar 
species which flowered at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in August, 
1899. It is allied to A. grandiflora, Lindl., but has a very slender scape and 
smaller flowers, with the sepals and petals long caudate, and the spur 
cylindrical. The sepals and petals are pale, pellucid green, and the lip 
greenish white. 
DENDROBIUM BRYMERIANUM AS A PARENT. 
SHOULD the efforts which are being made to induce Dendrobium Brymer- 
ianum to impart, through hybridizing, its beautiful lip to other members of 
the Dendrobium family prove successful, then we may reasonably expect to 
obtain flowers equally beautiful, in their class, to those Lelia and Lelio- 
cattleya hybrids which are the result of using Lelia Digbyana as a parent. 
So far as 1 am aware, no flower having D. Brymerianum for one of its 
parents has yet been seen, although plants of D. Brymerianum x D. nobile 
nobilius and D. Dalhousianum x D. Brymerianum are said to be in exis- 
tence. These it is sincerely hoped will, when they flower, fully come up to 
their owners’ expectations ; but knowing the great difficulty which exists in 
