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NOVELTIES. 
CALANTHE LILACINA, Loher.—A handsome Philippine Calanthe, having 
large flowers, with lilac sepals and petals, a strongly three-lobed lip, which 
is whitish at first, afterwards becoming nearly orange-coloured, and a 
clavate spur about as long as the sepals. It seems most allied to C. 
conspicua, Lindl., described many years ago from dried specimens. The 
flowers of C. lilacina are said to last quite four months in good condition.— 
Gard. Chron., 1910, i. p. 66, fig. 38. 
MAXILLARIA JOHANIANA, Kranzl.—A species of the M. irrorata group, 
which flowered with Mr. K. W. John, Andernach, Rhine, and is said to have 
been obtained from Peru. The flowers are white, with the upper half of 
the sepals and petals deep lilac, and the lip brown, densely covered with 
white meal on the disc.—Gard. Chron., 1910, i. p. 66. 
PLEUROTHALLIS ATTENUATA, Rolfe.—A small species of the Apoda 
cespitose group, which flowered in 1892 in the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Glasnevin, and recently at Kew. It has rather elongated narrow light green 
sepals and petals, banded with dark purple below, and a greenish white lip. 
Habitat unknown.—Kew Bull., 1909, p. 365. 
PLEUROTHALLIS BIRCHENALLII, Rolfe-—A Colombian species, intro- 
duced from near Velez, by Mr. J. Birchenall, Alderley Edge, who flowered 
it in April, tg09. It is allied to P. insignis, Rolfe, and has long acuminate 
sepals and petals, the former dull reddish purple margined with green, and 
the latter light green striped with brown at the base.—Kew Bull., 1909, 
p- 365. 
BULBOPHYLLUM NUDISCAPUM, Rolfe.— An African species, with a 
hairy, purple lip, markedly differing from B. barbigerum by its very long 
scapes. It was collected long ago in Sierra Leone by Afzelius, and is now 
represented in several collections.—Kew Bull., 1gog, p. 365. 
ERIA OCHRACEA, Rolfe——A Malayan species, introduced by Curtis with 
Dendrobium cruentum and Cirrhopetalum Fascinator, and flowered at Kew 
in September, 1909. It is allied to E. ferruginea, Lindl., and has greenish 
yellow flowers marked with brown.—Kew Bull., tgog, p. 366. 
PoLYSTACHYA CAMPYLOGLOsSA, Rolfe.—Introduced from Mombassa by. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, who flowered it in july, 1909. It is allied to P. 
confusa, Rolfe, and has green flowers with a brown stain on the base of the 
lip and foot of the column.—Kew Bull., 1909, p. 366. 
STANHOPEA CONVOLUTA, Rolfe.—Introduced from Antioquia by M. FI. 
Claes, Brussels, who flowered it in September, 1gog. It isnear S. tricornis, 
Lindl., but has larger flowers, the sepals and petals ivory white, with buff 
tips to the latter, and the lip buff, with the interior of the sac orange.—Kew 
Bull., 1909, p. 367. 
