JULY, rgt0.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 213 
ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
THE handsome Renanthera coccinea is rather an unmanageable plant in an 
ordinary Orchid house, on account of its tall and rambling habit, which 
necessitates a suitable position being provided. At Kew such a position 
has been found in the Mexican division of the Temperate house, where it 
is trained to one of the pillars at the south end. The plant has now 
become established, and this year has produced a fine panicle of its brilliant 
crimson flowers. 
In the warm division of the Orchid house its dwarf but almost equally 
brilliant ally, R. Imschootiana, is now in bloom. In the same division 
are several well-bloomed Phalznopsis amabilis, with the rare Andaman 
Island P. tetraspis, Bulbophyllum barbigerum and the curious green, hairy- 
flowered B. inflatum, two plants of Aérides odoratum, and a lot of 
Paphiopedilums, including P. callosum Sander, P. Victoria-Mariz, P. 
Curtisii and its variety nobilior. |The leaf of this variety is more like P. 
Dayanum than the old P. Curtisii, and it would be interesting to know its 
history, for we have seen the same form elsewhere. It is a very free 
bloomer, but the flowers are much like P. Curtisii in general character. 
In the opposite Warm house are several well-bloomed plants of 
Dendrobium Phalenopsis, with D. Dearei, D. revolutum, and the bright 
rose-coloured D. regium, Vanda suavis with three good spikes of bloom, 
Brassavola Digbyana, Epidendrum Parkinsonianum, a good E. prismato- 
carpum, Catasetum atratum, Diacrium bicornutum, a well-flowered Eria 
longispica, the rare Platanthera Helleborine, and a plant of Oncidium 
altissimum with two very long inflorescences, making a fine display. 
In the Cattleya house are several C. Warneri, and a plant of C. Mendelii 
on a raft with seven spikes, well-flowered plants of Oncidium Went- 
worthianum, sphacelatum and Harrisonianum, Stanhopea platyceras, a 
well-bloomed example of the graceful Maxillaria sanguinea, Sobralia 
Lucasiana, resembling a lilac-coloured S. macrantha, well-flowered plants 
of S. Wilsoniana and S. Amesiana, which look very much alike, Epidendrum 
trachychilum, and other interesting things. 
In the Cool house are numerous Odontoglossums, including good 
examples of O. hastilabium, gloriosum, and luteopurpureum, a fine plant of 
Calanthe X Dominyi just beginning to flower, Aérides japonicum, Oncidium 
macranthum, Masdevallia Schlimii, M. Chimera, well-flowered examples 
of M. muscosa, and various others. 
Outside, on the rockwork, are Epipactis palustris and a very large 
clump of E. gigantea, Orchis latifolia with both green and spotted leaves, 
numerous plants of O. maculata, including the variety alba, and a clump of 
the handsome O. latifolia x maculata, believed to be a hybrid between 
