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and because of their green colour spotted with chocolate brown, they have 
much the appearance of belonging to some Brassia. The lip is pure white, 
with yellow tubercles and a few stains of the same colour near the base.” 
Soon afterwards Reichenbach sent Lindley a few flowers, remarking “ All 
gardeners of Hamburgh insist that it came from Brazil” (Lindl. Fol. Orch., 
Oncid., p. 54), and the point seems to have been confirmed a few years later, 
when the species was figured in Pescatorea (t. 35), this plant, which 
flowered in the collection of M. Jean van Volxem, having been sent by 
M. Pinel, from Novo Friburgo, Brazil, at the beginning of 1853. R.A.R. 
ORCHIDS AT BURFORD. 
A visiT to Burford is always an interesting experience, and the members 
of the Jury of the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition, with many 
lady and other friends, who were the guests of Sir Trevor and Lady 
Lawrence on Saturday, June 25th, spent a very enjoyable afternoon in their 
delightful garden under Box Hill, when many members of the party spent 
a considerable time in examining the numerous interesting features of Sir 
Trevor’s famous collection of Orchids. Some of us recalled a similar 
delightful experience on the occasion of the last Hybridisation Conference 
six years ago (O.R., xiv. pp. 270-272), but being nine weeks earlier in the 
year there was quite a different set of things in bloom, As before, every 
plant was in its own appropriate situation, where it had been grown, and 
how much more interesting they appear than when collected together and 
mixed up, warm, intermediate, and cool, just to make a show. Truly the 
absence of a Show house has its compensating advantages. Our notes, as 
before, follow no particular order, the plants being mentioned just as we 
found them, but the rarities naturally received the most attention. The 
more familiar showy things were too numerous to record in detail. 
In the Odontoglossum house, which we first entered, we noted the fine 
plant of Dendrobium Victoria-Regina, bearing a large number of its striking 
violet-blue flowers, and there can be no doubt that this is the proper place 
in which to grow the species, for it is known to come from a high elevation 
in the Philippines. The curious D. thyrsiflorum Galliceanum was also 
bearing six fine racemes. Lycaste Dyeriana was bearing three of its light 
green flowers, its pendulous habit and glaucous leaves being also very 
distinct features. There was also a good plant of Oncidium Massangei, the 
very distinct O. candidum, Odontoglossum ramos-Edwardii, bearing a 
panicle of flowers, and a fine lot of O. crispum, including some good 
spotted varieties. These, however, we shall pass over, merely noting that 
O.c. purpurascens, with its beautifully crisped and purple-tinted flowers, 
was one of the most charming. ¥ 
The next house contained an interesting lot of things in bloom, including 
