266 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
EPIDENDRUM PLICATUM. 
In 1847 a very handsome Epidendrum was described and figured under the 
above name by Dr. Lindley (Bot. Reg., XXXIII., t. 35), which had been 
introduced from Cuba by Messrs. Loddiges, and flowered in their 
establishment in the previous July. Since then it has been almost lost 
sight of, and it is interesting to note that a plant has flowered in the 
collection of Mr. T. L. Mead, Oviedo, Florida, which was brought bya 
tourist from Florida. It belongs to the Encyclium group, in which the lip 
is free from the column, and is nearly allied to E. ceratistes, Lindl. Lindley 
described the lip as rich crimson, also the petals at the back, but the sepals 
and inside of the petals green, the former just warmed and the latter richly 
spotted with crimson. Mr. Mead remarks that the scape is two feet long, 
and the lip in colour like Lelia autumnalis, passing to white in the centre ; 
the petals greenish golden-buff with maroon tips, and the outer ‘surface 
sprinkled with buff; and the sepals buff, like the petals, but only edged 
with maroon mottlings, and the reverse surface also dusted with maroon. 
Like many others it is probably variable in colour, and is one of the 
comparatively few handsome species grown. : 
BOTANICAL ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
OnE of the prettiest Botanical Orchids now flowering at Kew is Cynorchis 
grandiflora, a terrestrial Madagascar species, whose history was given at 
page 59 of our first volume. Its large purple four-lobed lip and green sepals 
marked with purple-brown are very distinct and attractive, and it grows 
well with other terrestrial species. Spiranthes grandiflora is a well-known 
- pe with spikes of large green flowers, which is found in a few 
thoglottis plicata and a very pretty dwarf variety called 
Micholitzii Anise also be enumerated. The latter is a distinct improve- 
ment on the type, the dwarfer habit being very marked, while the flower is 
rather larger, and of the usual bright purple colour. It was imported by 
Messrs. Sander. Several plants of the pretty little yellow S. Fortunei are 
also very effective. Sobralia sessilis is also flowering, and the blooms are 
very handsome for one day, after which they shrivel, to be succeeded by 
others a few days later. 
Masdevallia floribunda answers very well to its name, for two or three 
plants are now a mass of flowers, and when thus grown is very pretty- It 
regularly flowers in this manner about this time of year. Me Carderi and 
M. Reichenbachiana are also very pretty. Pl halli his is a 
very distinct Costa Rican species with curiously flattened sans aad orange- 
buff flowers. P. picta is a dwarf tuft of leaves crowded with short single- 
