THE ORCHID REVIEW. 3 
A fine flower of Cattleya Lueddemanniana, eight inches across, is sent 
by Messrs. Hurst & Son, Purbage Nurseries, Hinckley, together with a 
fine Odontoglossum Rossii majus, and others. 
Cypripedium X Leeanum giganteum, the finest of the Spiceriano- 
insigne hybrids, with dorsal sepal 2} inches across, comes from the 
collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Waltham Grange, Stone. Mr. Stevens 
also encloses half-a-dozen named varieties of Lelia anceps, and a fine five- 
flowered spike of the beautiful natural hybrid L. x Gouldiana. 
The plant of Sophronitis pterocarpa in the collection of W. E. Ledger, 
Esq., of Wimbledon, noted at page 100 of the last volume, has again 
flowered well, producing twenty-one flowers on five racemes. 
A fine flower of Cymbidium Tracyanum comes frem the collection of 
W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., of Hessle, and a rather darker one from Messrs. 
Sander. The latter is said to be from Upper Burma, thus confirming the 
previous records. 
A fine flower of the rare Miltonia Phalzenopsis comes from the collection 
of R. I. Measures, Esq., of Camberwell. The unique plant of Pleurothallis 
punctulata (Rolfe) in the same collection is now flowering very freely, all 
the old growths with leaves producing blooms as well as the new ones. 
The leaves are covered with a remarkable white mealiness. 
The Orchids collected by Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliott on Mt. Ruwenzori, 
Tropical Africa, have proved very interesting, the great majority being new. 
Over forty species have been described in the Journal of Botany by Mr. 
Rendle, the most remarkable being Epipactis africana. 
OBERONIA MYOSURUS. 
This very curious little plant has just flowered in the establishment of 
Messrs. Hugh Low. & Co., of Clapton, probably for the first time in 
cultivation. The leaves are terete, fleshy, and covered with minute greyish 
pustules, instead of being equitant, like a small Iris. The flowers are deep 
buff and very minute, but densely arranged in a cylindrical spike. The 
reflexed sepals and petals are practically hidden behind the lip, whose 
margin is broken up all round into a number of curved hairy teeth, giving 
it also as much the appearance of some strange insect as of a flower; 
the aid of a lens, however, being required to show its remarkable structure. 
It is a native of Nepal and Burma, and was described in 1830 (Lindl. Gen. 
& Sp. Orch., p. 16). R.A. _R: 
