THE ORCHID REVIEW. 259 
A flower of the beautiful Cattleya Lueddemanniana has been sent from 
the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard. The lip is very prettily 
veined, somewhat as in C. Mossize, though it differs in its comparatively 
broad petals and narrow lip, and in its habit of flowering on completion of 
the young growths. 
Habenaria polytricha, Rolfe, isa remarkable new species from Formosa, 
which is figured in a recent issue of the Icones Plantarum (t. 2496). The 
petals are not only divaricately bilobed, as in the section Ate, but each lobe 
is again divided, the upper half into two long filiform lobes, and the lower 
one into four. The lip is also broken up into numerous filiform lobes. It 
belongs to the group called Meduszeformes, which contains only two other 
species, M. ternatea, Rchb. f., from the Moluccas, and M. andamanica, 
Hook. f., from the Andaman Islands. 
We have received the seventh Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, founded under the bequest of the late Henry Shaw, which forms 
a handsome volume, containing several important illustrated papers. In the 
Report of the Director, Mr. William Trelease, it is stated that among the 
additions to the plants cultivated under glass— “a small but carefully 
selected collection of Orchids has been placed in the house built in 1894, 
so that with good management there will scarcely be a time during the 
year when one or more of these interesting plants cannot be found in 
bloom, while in the latter part of the winter a considerable pumber are open 
together. This collection will be extended considerably from year to yeat, 
my intention being to devote the greater part of this house to a varied 
collection of Orchids. The garden has now in cultivation 156 named 
species or varieties of greenhouse Orchids.” An illustration of a fine plant 
of Cattleya luteola on a block is given at page 123, and of Chysis 
bractescens in a group of other things at page 23, but we find no reference 
to them in the text. 
A very curious flower of a good form of Odontoglossum X Coradinei 
has been sent from the collection of W. Campbell, Esq., of Kennishead, 
near Glasgow, by Mr. H. Reid, in which there is a small additional lip 
nearly in front of the normal one, and slightly adnate to the base of = 
column at one side. It is quite perfect in shape and colour, put not ve 
the size of the ordinary one. The rest of the flower is quite perfect, og 
the segments short and broad. It came out of one of Messrs. Lewis's 
importations. 
aised from C. barbatum 
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A twin-flowered scape of a hybrid Cypripedium from the collection of 
grandiflorum 9 and C. Boxallii ¢ has been sent 
