JULY, 1913.) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 231 
ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
THE Orchid houses at Kew are still very gay, and many interesting plants 
are in bloom. Lycaste peruviana is bearing eight greenish-brown flowers, 
with a paler, much-fringed lip. A fine specimen of L. Deppei, having no 
fewer than fifty flowers, makes a bold show. Odontoglossum citrosmum 
is flowering freely, there being about two dozen spikes of its fragrant 
flowers in the Cool house. The plants were grown suspended from the 
roof in the Cattleya house, where they thrive well. Eulophia paniculata is 
a rare Madagascar species which is flowering in the warm division, the 
erect flower spike being quite six feet high, branched, and the flowers 
brownish. The pseudobulbs are rather large, and the leaves thick and 
fleshy, and marbled with two shades of green. A plant of E. lurida, which 
was imported from West Tropical Africa with a Bulbophyllum in the same 
clump, is also in bloom. Two plants of Cirrhopetalum robustum are 
flowering freely, one being a fine specimen bearing ten flower scapes. 
Saccolabium fragrans is a charming little Burmese Orchid, with the leaves 
about an inch in length, and three short spikes of purple flowers. Another 
little gem to be seen in flower is Hemipilia calophylla, the single ovate leaf 
being prettily marked with brown. It bears eight dark red velvety flowers 
on an erect spike. This plant thrives in the cool Intermediate house. 
Some adventitious growths on the flower spike of an Oncidium attract 
attention in the Cool house. They are growing in clusters of four and five 
at each node, and rooting freely, so that the species could easily be pro- 
pagated by cutting them off and placing them in small pots of compost, 
like seedlings. . 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
FLowers of two very diverse seedlings of Lelia Latona (L. cinnabarina X 
purpurata) are sent from the collection of H. R. Sterrett, Esq., Heston- 
Hounslow. One has rich cinnabar orange sepals and petals, and much 
purple veining in the throat of the lip, with a zone of the same colour 
beyond, while in the other the lip is almost entirely purple, and the sepals 
and petals are partially suffused with the same colour. A nice light form 
of Leliocattleya Ballii is also sent. They are seedlings flowering for the 
first time, and have not yet reached their full development. 
A three-flowered inflorescence of the striking Odontonia brugensis. is 
sent by M. Firmin Lambeau, Brussels. The flowers are 24 inches in 
diameter, lilac in colour, with a dark violet-purple blotch at the base of the 
sepals and petals, and the lip an inch broad, with a violet-purple zone 
round the bronzy yellow disc of the lip. The flowers are most like the 
Miltonia parent in shape. 
