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good. The charming little D. x Wiganize has already been described at 
page 107. A plant of Platyclinis glumacea bearing over sixty racemes of 
very fragrant flowers was also a picture. Comparettia falcata is a pretty 
species not often met with. There were some good Miltonia Roezlii, and 
one called M. R. splendens had seven racemes with 28 flowers and buds, 
two having five each. The flowers were very large, the base of the petals 
darkest purple, and the disc of the lip very deep yellow. The lip was two 
inches across. Very interesting, too, were Angraecum citratum, Seleniped- 
ium X Pheedra, and the singular Ornithocephalus grandiflorus. Many plants 
of Masdevallia tovarensis had been a sight, one carrying as many as 40 
spikes, each with two or three flowers. Mr. Young does not leave the old 
spikes on as some do, and thinks he gets quite as good results, while the 
plants keep stronger. A plant of M. ignea was also flowering well. The 
Odontoglossum house has been re-constructed on an improved principle, 
and it is hoped that the plants will show an improvement. A plant of O. 
x Wilckeanum bore a spike of fourteen flowers. A large number of other 
things were in flower, but were not specially noted. 
FIGURES OF INDIAN ORCHIDS. 
THE fifth volume of the Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, edited 
by Dr. G, King, F.R.S., contains figures and descriptions of a century of 
Indian Orchids selected from drawings in the Herbarium of the Botanic 
Garden, Walcutta, by Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S., most of them having 
been previously described in the Flora of British India. The drawings are 
partly coloured, and represent species chiefly of botanical interest. Eighteen 
species of Dendrobium are figured, including D. aurantiacum, Rchb. f., D- 
Williamsoni, Rchb. f., and one called D. Palpebree, Lindl., whose flowers 
are larger than those of the plant met with in gardens. D. crocatum, 
Hook. f., is a member of the Pedilonum group with orange flowers, be 
the others are not likely to be grown outside botanical collections. Phaius 
mishmiensis, Rchb. f., is a very pretty species with rose-coloured flowers, 
which has recently appeared in ivati Phalaenopsis tetraspis, Rchb. 
f., Sarcochilus Berkeleyi, Rchb. f., and others, are well-known in one 
though the great majority are not in cultivation. The work will 
invaluable as an aid to the identification of these interesting plants: | 
A recent number of the Journal of the Asiatic Sociely of pee 
contains a paper by Dr. King and Mr. R. Pantling, entitled, we. 
New Orchids from Sikkim.” It contains thirty-three new species “er 
have been discovered in Sikkim during the last few years, chiefly by 4 
Pantling. There are six species of the curious genus Oberomia, oa 
most of the species are chiefly of botanical interest. 
