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remarks might be made about other seedlings of it if critically compared. 
Of course, the uniformity existing among the thousands of plants now 
known is due to the fact that they are subdivisions of one original plant. 
R.A. 
CIRRHOPETALUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM, 
AN inflorescence of the handsome Cirrhopetalum Rothschildianum is sent 
from the collection of W. H. Burkinshaw, Esq., West Hill, Hessle, Hull, 
by Mr. Barker. The species was described and figured in 1895 (O’Brien in 
Gard. Chron., 1895, ii. pp. 608, 609, fig. 102), from a plant which was 
exhibited at a meeting of the R.H.S., held on October 15th, by the Hon. 
Walter Rothschild, Tring Park, to which a First-class Certificate was given. 
It is said to have been received some years previously, with a few others, 
from an explorer somewhere in the hills beyond Darjeeling, but, owing to 
its long and slow journey, it arrived in so withered a condition that it was 
a long time before it became strong enough to flower. It is an ally of 
C. Collettii, Hemsl., and in fact is the largest-flowered species of the 
group. The flowers measure five inches long, and the united sepals 
measure about an inch broad at the base, and are prolonged upwards into 
a pair of long slender tails. The prevailing colour is dark red-purple, with 
traces of the light yellow ground colour. The sepals and petals are 
margined with long plume-like appendages which flutter in the slightest 
breeze. It is a very remarkable and striking species. R.A.R 
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OncIDIUM SANDER&.—A flower of this handsome Peruvian novelty has 
been sent by Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. It is most allied to O. 
Papilio, the upper part of the inflorescence being somewhat flattened and 
without nodes, but it differs in the much crisped, lighter-coloured lateral 
sepals, and lip, and in the column wings being broken up into more numerous 
filiform capitate appendages. The lateral sepals are clear bright yellow, 
with very numerous brown bars and spots, and the orbicular front lobe of the 
lip is similar in colour, with a broad band of brown spots round the margin 
In other respects it recalls O. Papilio, and is equally handsome.—R.A.R. 
OsmuNDA Fipre.—Under the title ‘‘Osmunda regalis Fibre for 
Orchids,” Mr. H. G. Alexander, Orchid grower to Lt.-Col. Sir George L. 
Holford, K.C.V.O., has written a useful little pamphlet respecting the 
use of Osmunda fibre for Orchid-growing, which has been published by 
Messrs. Wm. Wood & Sons, Ltd., to whom we are indebted for a copy. 
Mr. Alexander has had a long experience in the use of this material, and 
considers it thoroughly satisfactory as a compost, either alone or in 
conjunction with other potting materials, according to the subject under 
