THE ORCHID REVIEW. mt 
a good Orchid for the Warm house, where it succeeds well. It is very 
distinct from anything else, and the flowers, though not large, are very 
numerous, and last well. Cymbidium eburneum is as good as it always is, 
and Maxillaria Sanderiana, Cyrtopodium Andersoni, and Epidendrum 
evectum are now flowering well. Angracum citratum is very pretty and 
distinct, and the ranks of Odontoglossum are swelled by some good plants 
of O.cirrhosum, a very graceful species. Miltonia cuneata, too, is flower- 
ing well. 
Additions among Cypripediums worth noting are C. hirsutissimum, 
exul, concolor and niveum, and these are being followed by several others, 
and among them the hardy species C. pubescens, a flower or two of which 
are already out. This species is well worth growing in pots, which can be 
brought into the house when in flower, as it is so distinct from the tropical 
kinds, and, moreover, very handsome. 
BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
Ove of the most interesting of the numerous botanical Orchids now 
flowering at Kew is Bulbopyllum barbigerum, which will doubtless form a 
centre of interest for some weeks to come. It is hardly necessary now to 
point out how quickly the long hairy lip responds to the slightest breeze, 
and pops up and down when the ventilators are open, as if endowed with 
mobility on its own account. The sensation a plant of it caused at one of 
the Temple shows will long be remembered. A plant of the curious 
Australian Dendrobi ifolium is also flowering well, with its pendulous 
habit, whip-like leaves, and graceful racemes of white flowers. D. parcum 
with braching habit and small yellow-green flowers, and D. secundum with 
one-sided racemes of pink flowers, may also be mentioned, while other allied 
Plants are Cirrh petal pit and the curious little Trias picta. ‘ 
There are several Odontoglossums which are only botanical Orchids, 
and of these O. ramulosum is bearing a raceme of its small yellow and 
brown flowers. The rare Mormodes Hookeri has a raceme of its deep purple 
flowers with hairy lip, and Maxillaria Houtteana two or three of its brilliant 
ted flowers. Other interesting plants are Hionia polystachya, Lockhartia 
elegans, Xylobium  corrugatum, Amblost idactylitum Cymbidium 
madidum, and Trichocent iq the latter a striking little plant 
With iris-like habit and large light yellow flowers spotted with orange. 
Holothrix Lindleyana, sometimes known as Tryphia secunda, is a : 
little Cape species with erect racemes of small white flowers and deeply 
bed lip. Pelexia maculata and P. olivacea are also both now in flower. 
pretty 
