308 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NOVELTIES. 
ONcIDIUM JONESIANUM FLAVENS.—A curious variety, in which all the spots 
have vanished from the sepals and petals, which are slightly barred with pale 
yellowish green, and the lip white, with the usual markings. It flowered in 
the collection of T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester, and 
afterwards with Mr. James Cypher, at Cheltenham.—O’Brien in Gard. 
Chron., July 4, p. 9. 
EPIDENDRUM XIPHEROIDES, Kranzl.—A_ Brazilian species, which 
flowered with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. It is very nearly allied 
to E. xipheres, Rchb. f., which is figured at t. 111 of the Refugium Botanicum, 
but is said to differ in having much larger bulbs and smaller flowers of a 
different colour. The sepals and petals are dark green with sordid purple 
lines, and the lip golden-coloured with a thick whitish callus—Gard. Ghron., 
July 18, p. 63. 
CyRTOPODIUM MICRANTHUM, Kranzl.—A Brazilian species which flowered 
with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, in June last. It is said to be like 
a small-flowered form of C. maculatum, Lindl., but to have the side lobes of 
the lip more developed, and the front lobe larger; obovate, and founded at 
the top. In colour, it is like a pale form of C. maculatum.—Gard. Chron., 
July 18, p. 63. 
CIRRHOPETALUM GRAVEOLENS, Bailey.—A large-flowered species brought 
from New Guinea a few years ago by Sir Walter Macgregor, which has 
now flowered in the greenhouse of the Brisbane Botanic Garden. It is a 
showy species, but the strong disagreeable odour of its flowers will probably 
prevent its becoming a favourite in cultivation, except where collections of 
these curious and beautiful plants are kept. The strong odour of the flowers 
seems to have the effect of attracting and stupefying flies, so that when by 
the turning over of the labellum they become jammed between that organ 
and the column, they are unable to extricate themselves, and die. The 
leaves are 12 inches long by 44 inches broad at the top; and the scapes 6 
or 7 inches high, bearing a short raceme 7 inches in diameter, composed of 
about 13 strongly-scented flowers, which are so crowded as to appeal 
almost umbellate. Colour yellowish, tinged with green, and the inner face 
of all the segments more or less speckled with red, and the lip reddish 
brown, changing to deep purple.—F. M. Bailey, Contributions to Queensland 
Flora, Botany Bulletin, xiii. (1896), p. 33. This is evidently the fine 
Cirrhopetalum robustum, Rolfe, described in this work three years ag 
(vol. x, p. 175), which received a First-class Certificate from the Royal! 
Horticultural Society on June x1th, 1895. 
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