270 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
seventeen Masdevallias are not yet known from Brazil, while the genus 
Scaphosepalum, of which two species are included, has not yet been detected 
there. Thus the totals given cannot be taken as representing the number of 
' Brazilian species actually known. The plates of this part extend from 
numbers 76 to g8, on which nearly a hundred species are represented. The 
general character of this valuable work has already been indicated, and we 
hope in time to see it brought to a satisfactory completion. 
AN AMATEUR’S NOTES. 
Tue end of summer is about the dullest season of the year for Orchid 
blooms, but I find a fair sprinkling of handsome species in flower in the 
different houses. The beautiful Cattleya Eldorado is just now at its best, 
and the pure white variety Wallisii is particularly charming. C. Luedde- 
manniana, too, is carrying some of its large and handsome flowers. C. 
superba and C. Loddigesii are also flowering well, and C. Leopoldi is bearing 
several large trusses of its finely-spotted flowers. Laelia crispa is always 
handsome, and just now is coming on well, together with several pans of 
the charming little Laelia Dayana, which is about the best of the dwarf 
kinds. Lzelio-cattleya x Schilleri is also at its best, and the equally 
beautiful L.-c. x elegans is coming out well. Both are invaluable at this 
time of year. In this house are also beautiful plants of Miltonia spectabilis 
and its richly-coloured variety Moreliana, which deserve to be grown in 
quantity, so useful are they at this season. é 
Nothing can exceed the brilliancy of colour of the old Disa grandiflora 
when it does well, and the contrast with a fine dark Vanda ccerulea is really 
most effective. Another blue Orchid which is now very charming is 
Rhyncostylis ccelestis, generally grown under the name of Saccolabium 
celeste. Near it are Phalznopsis cornu-cervi, pretty, but not showy, the 
handsome Aerides Lawrencez, the pretty little Angreecum Scottianum, @ 
good Ansellia africana, and a fine plant of Cycnoches chlorochilon, which 
completely scents the house in the early morning. Selenipedium X Sedeni 
and its varieties are just commencing to flower on a number of new spikes 
just thrown up, and are now very handsome, and the same remark applies 
to S. X calurum. These useful plants flower during the greater part of the 
year. Cypripedium Dayanum is also flowering well, together with numerous 
hybrids, of which C. x Ashburtonie and C. x Io are very effective. 
Among the few handsome things in the Cool-house, Oncidium varicosum 
is just now one of the showiest, while the coral-red Rodriguezia secunda and 
Cochlioda vulcanica are both very charming. Other showy plants are 
Epidendrum nemorale and Odont real bi together with one 
or two mentioned in previous notes. 
