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-green, with lines of brownish-red spots, and the lip yellowish spotted with 
ed-purple. A plant of Stelis muscifera, grown in a five-inch pan, has 
‘thirty-eight erect spikes, with from twenty to thirty brownish-red flowers on 
each. 
A good plant of Pleurothallis Birchenallii is flowering on almost every 
-growth, the dark red flowers being very large, and recalling those of P. 
scapha. It is an exceptionally good grower. Physosiphon Loddigesii is 
-another very floriferous Cool house subject. The plant is growing in a six- 
inch pan, and has no fewer than forty-six spikes, with about twenty 
yellowish-brown flowers on each spike. 
There are also many interesting Masdevallias in flower, M. Schlimii 
ibeing especially fine. The plant is bearing a dozen spikes, with five flowers 
on each. M. tridactylites is a curious little plant that is flourishing. The 
stems are very slender, and the flowers are curious in shape. The upper 
‘sepal is yellow and red, and the lower sepals purplish-red, with clear 
yellow lateral tails. Masdevallia O’Brieniana is quite a dwarf of the genus, 
‘but it is very free flowering. The flowers are borne on short stems, and 
‘somewhat resemble M. simula, but are larger, and much more yellow. 
M. simula is also flowering profusely. Aérides japonicum, like those 
-already mentioned, will thrive in the Cool house. It is a diminutive 
“species, with short leathery leaves and drooping racemes, each bearing six 
or eight whitish flowers, barred and spotted with purple. It is advisable to 
‘Suspend this plant from the roof-glass. He ia 3: 
ODONTONIA BRUGENSIS.—A remarkable hybrid, raised in the establish- 
ment of Messrs. Sander & Sons, Bruges, from Odontoglossum Edwardii 
‘crossed with the pollen of Miltonia vexillaria. The plant is most like the 
Miltonia in habit, to which it bears a marked approach in the shape and 
colour of the leaves, and in having the flowers well expanded and the lip 
relatively broad. The example seen bore a short four-flowered scape, which 
has now been sent to us. The flowers at present have an expanse of one 
-and a quarter inches, and the colour is light violet-purple, with a buff yellow, 
oblong, tuberculate crest, and a darker purple zone all round it. The 
petals are also darker at the base, and measure four lines across, while the 
lip is over half an inch broad, and somewhat pandurate. The column is 
most like that of the Miltonia parent, with narrow entire wings. Itis a 
‘very distinct and remarkable hybrid, and has obviously not reached its full 
development. Indeed, we are told that a form with larger flowers and a 
broader lip has previously bloomed. We may add that we saw seedlings of 
considerable size from the same cross in the collection of M. Firmin 
‘Lambeau a few days earlier, when it was an interesting speculation as to 
‘what the flowers would be like. 
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