NOVEMBER, 1912.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 3 
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CYCNOCHES DENSIFLORUM. 
THIS striking species is a native of Colombia, and was collected by Mr. J. 
Birchenall at Simacota, near the River Opon, among some species of 
Mormodes. It flowered with Messrs. Hugh. Low & Co., in November, 
1908, when the annexéd photograph was taken, and was soon afterwards 
described (Rolfe in Kew. Bull., 1909, p. 64). The plant ‘passed into the 
Fig. 40. CYCNOCHES DENSIFLORUM. 
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collection of the Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham Vicarage, Chichester. 
The sepals and petals are light green, with some brown spots in the males 
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and the lip white in both sexes. The difference in size and shape 1own 
in the figure, but we may add that when weighed cn a letter balance a 
single female flower proved slightly heavier than twenty-three males. 
