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Sons, and is the actual plant figured at page 329 of our fourteenth volume— 
a rather dwarf form of the species. 
BRASSOCATTLEYA SANDHAGHENSIS.—A flower of the very distinct and 
striking Brassocattleya sandhaghensis, which was figured at page 241 of our 
last volume, is sent from the collection of Mr. Gustave H. Miiller, Huis 
Sandhaghe, Den Haag, Holland. The sepals and petals are somewhat 
spreading, about three inches long, and light brownish green, and the petals 
are suffused with light purple at the apex. The lip is very deeply three- 
lobed, and the front lobe over two inches broad, well fringed, suffused and 
veined with light purple, and the base and throat light yellow. The side 
lobes are broad, overlapping, fringed, yellowish white in colour, and veined 
with light purple at the apex. It shows both the floral character and dwarf 
habit of the Cattleya parent very strongly, but the colour and the much- 
fringed lip show the influence of the Brassavola parent. 
ARACHNANTHE LOWII. 
A PHOTOGRAPH showing a well-flowered plant of the remarkable Arachnanthe 
Lowii is sent by the Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham Vicarage, Chichester, 
and we regret that, partly owing to its size and partly to the fact that it was 
not isolated from other plants growing around it, it is unsuitable for repro- 
duction in our pages. The pot is supported on a pedestal, so that the base 
of the plant is about level with the stage, and there are two fine stems, 
leafy almost to the base, and the plant bears eight long racemes, which are 
carried up to a support nearly as high as the top of the plant, and then 
hang down nearly to the floor. The photograph is quite sharp, and the 
pubescence of the racemes can be made out with a lens, also the different 
shape of the orange-coloured flowers at the base of the inflorescence. It 
represents a fine specimen of this remarkable Orchid. 
The economy of the two kinds of flowers has, we believe, never been 
made out, and so far as can be seen by examination both are equally perfect. 
It has probably some connection with the fertilisation of the flowers, a 
point on which, apparently, nothing is known. Observation of the plant in 
its native home might throw some light on the question. 
The species is a native of Borneo, and the following note about it, 
together with a figure, is given by Wallace (Malay Archip., i. pp. 127, 128) : 
—‘* The interesting group of Orchids is very abundant, but, as is generally 
the case, nine-tenths of the species have small and inconspicuous flowers. 
Among the exceptions are the fine Coelogynes, whose large clusters of 
yellow flowers ornament the gloomiest forests, and that most extraordinary 
plant, Vanda Lowii, which last is particularly abundant near some hot 
springs at the foot of the Peninjauh Mountain. It grows on the lower 
branches of trees, and its strange pendant flower-spikes often hang down so 
