72 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A magnificent flower of the typical form has been sent from the collection 
of W. S. M’Millan, Esq., Maghull, near Liverpool, in which the petals are 
barely under 3 inches broad, and the rest of the flower equally well developed. 
Mr. Robertson, the gardener, writes that the house in which these plants 
are grown is 42 feet long by 12 feet broad, and 9 feet high, and that the 
plants are suspended in teak baskets in the centre of the house, together 
with Cattleya Warscewiczii, Dowiana aurea, Trianz, and Lelio-cattleya 
x elegans, and that Cattleya Lueddemanniana is placed nearest to the 
ventilators. When the plant starts it grows very rapidly, and flowers as 
soon as, or just before, the young bulb is finished. The plants are kept 
very dry in the summer and also in winter, but twice a year, in spring and 
autumn, a considerable quantity of tree leaves is placed in the house. Lath 
roller blinds are used for shading, but a good amount of sun is given. Last 
year the plants grew and flowered twice, and this winter they are three 
weeks earlier than last, so that a second flowering is again anticipated. 
The plants are certainly grown with great success, as the present flower 
and two sent last year amply testify. This habit of growing and flowering 
occasionally a second time has also been observed elsewhere. It ge 
magnificent Cattleya when successfully grown, and deserves more attention. 
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DENDROBIUM SARMENTOSUM. 
Tuts pretty little Upper Burmese Dendrobium has now flowered in several 
collections, and on February 11th last Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of the 
Clapton Nursery, received a Botanical Certificate for it from the Royal 
Horticultural Society, under the provisional name of D. fragrans. It 1 * 
native of the Shan States, Upper Burma, and is one of those mer 
tioned by Mr. R. Moore in his interesting paper on the Orchids of the Sia 
States (Supra, III., pp. 169-172) as having been found within about 30 miles 
of Lake Inle (L.c., P: 171). It flowered with Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co» 
of Southgate, in January, 1895, and shortly afterwards with Mr. J- W. 
Moore, of Bradford ; and this year with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., as above 
mentioned, and at Kew. It is allied to D. barbatulum, Lindl., and D: 
Fytcheanum, Batem., but in its branching habit reminds one of D. 
Falconeri, except that the growths are more erect. The flowers are about 
the size of those of D. Fytcheanum, and the sepals, petals, and front Jobe 
of the lip are white, and the basal part of the lip very light green with 
oN light brown radiating lines on the side lobes. The disc is 1 
villose, as in D. barbatulum. The flowers are almost as fragrant as violets 
The name is given in allusion to the sarmentose or very twiggy habit. 
R. A. 
