THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. .XVIII.] SEPTEMBER, 1g10. [No. 213. 
ORCHIDS AT BURFORD. 
Tse remarkable Cypripedium Stonei platyteanium has become almost a 
tradition to modern Orchidists, so seldom is it seen or heard of, but the 
other day we had the pleasure of seeing a fine plant, bearing two 
inflorescences of three flowers each, in the rich collection of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence. The plant has six growths, and another smaller healthy plant 
stood beside it. It isa unique sport from C. Stonei, and its petals, being 
enlarged to three times their normal breadth and handsomely spotted, give 
the plant an altogether distinct appearance. August is generally considered 
a rather dull season for Orchids, but we found a large number of interesting 
things in bloom, both species and hybrids, among the former being several 
which are very rarely seen. 
On entering one of the Warm houses, in company with Mr. White, we 
noticed a fine plant of the reddish-orange Dendrobium Jerdonianum, now 
past its best, the rare Philippine D. Bullenianum, Angrezecum filicorne, the 
rare Listrostachys forcipata, and the handsome Pescatorea Klabochorum. 
The unique Chondrobollea Froebeliana was in bud, and it may be remarked 
that the plants of this affinity do well in the shady north-west corner of 
this house, in company with Phaius xX Norman and _ shade-loving 
Cypripedes. Brassocattleya Joan (B. Perrinii X C. Warscewiczii) has 
white or lilac flowers, prettily spotted with purple, and varying in depth 
of colour. Sarcochilus hainanensis bore a dozen spikes, but none of the 
fugacious flowers were then expanded. Two plants of Cynorchis 
purpurascens were throwing up spikes, and it was pointed out that they 
were in the fibre in which they were imported nine years ago, possibly that 
of Asplenium Nidus, for Warpur states that it grows naturally on this and 
on Pandanus stems (O.R., ix. p. 10). We also noted several blooms of 
Cypripedium  superbiens, Spathoglottis Soutteriana, Bulbophyllum 
galbinum, and others. Among interesting things not in flower were two 
plants of the rare Neomoorea irrorata, Bulbophyllum orthoglossum, 
Ccelogyne Sander, C. miniata, C. Foerstermaniana, a plant which has been 
here for sometwenty years but refuses to flower, and a species of Houlletia, 
which has not bloomed since 1881, when it came into the collection. 
