52 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ FEBRUARY, 1913. 
INTERESTING ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
SEVERAL noteworthy Orchids are now flowering in the Kew collection. 
Hemaria discolor is a beautifully sweet-scented Chinese species, having 
dark velvety olive-green leaves and a dozen spikes of pure white flowers, with 
a yellow blotch on the lip, forming a very pretty picture. Its culture is 
not difficult. | Brassocattleya Lindleyana is an interesting Brazilian plant, 
which is believed to be a natural hybrid between Brassavola tuberculata 
and Cattleya intermedia, between which it is fairly intermediate. Gomesa 
recurva is a rare Brazilian epiphyte, with a raceme of about twelve inches 
long, and yellowish green flowers with undulate sepals and petals, and a 
red marking on the column, which shows up rather distinctly. 
Aérides Vandarum is a very distinct and interesting Orchid, although 
not very floriferous. In habit it resembles Vanda Kimballiana, and the 
flowers are white and borne on a short peduncle in the same way as 
Vanda teres. This plant requires Cool house treatment. Dendrobium 
amethystoglossum is an interesting, but not by any means a showy 
Dendrobium. The flowers are borne in pendulous spikes, and the lip is 
amethyst-coloured, with a rather long somewhat swollen spur. The 
beautiful Miltonioda Ajax (M. Scheederiana x C. Neetzliana), is also in 
bloom, the sepals and petals being crimson-red and the lip yellow.—L. 
FRANK ASHTON RELIEF FuNp.—A small Committee of Orchidists has 
been formed to assist Mr. Frank Ashton, who has unfortunately fallen into 
indigent circumstances, and who is no longer able to follow his employ- 
ment as a traveller in Orchids. He has been struggling against fate for the 
past two or three years, but has at last been compelled to give up owing to 
a very badly poisoned foot, to attacks of chronic rheumatism, and to an 
affection of the eyes. He is no longer able to travel, and his resources are 
practically at an end. An appeal is therefore made to all those who have 
been associated with Mr. Ashton in the Orchid business to show their 
practical sympathy with him in his great affliction by contributing towards 
a Fund which will be utilized to establish him in some small home business. 
The Kew Guild (of which Mr. Ashton is a life member) has generously 
made a grant of £5 towards the Fund. The Committee consists of Messrs. 
J. McNab, Sander & Sons, D. A. Cowanand A. G. Ellwood, of Charlesworth 
& Co., and J. Weathers, Isleworth, but Mr. Harry Smith of Haywards 
Heath, and Mr. Cooper of St. Albans, have also been consulted. Further 
donations may be sent to the Secretary of the Kew Guild (Mr. Herbert 
‘Cowley, South Side, Kew Green), or to me, and will be gratefully acknow- 
ledged on Mr. Ashton’s behalf. John Weathers, 7, Talbot Road, Isleworth, 
Middlesex, (Secretary). 
