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A fine form of Cattleya Bowringiana has been sent from the collection 
of Alfred Darby, Esq., Little Ness, Shrewsbury, in which the petals are 
one-and-a-half inches broad, and the sepals broader than in the typical 
form, giving the flower a very round appearance. This species is very 
useful at this season, and several very promising hybrids from it have 
recently appeared. 
The thirty-second volume of the Journal of the Linnean Society contains a 
paper entitled, ‘‘A Revision of the genus Vanilla,” by R. Allen Rolfe, 
A.L.S. Fifty-two species are admitted as distinct, of which sixteen are 
here described for the first time. The paper contains an account of the 
fertilisation, affinities, g phical distributi and economic uses of 
the genus, with a historical introduction, complete descriptions, and a key 
to the species. 
The same volume also contains a paper on “ The Orchidew and 
Apostasiez of the Malay Peninsula,” by Henry Ridley, M.A., F.L.S. Four 
new genera and about 130 new species are described, mostly of botanical 
interest. The new genera are Staurochilus, made to receive Trichoglottis 
fasciata, Rchb. f., but with no character given ; Renantherella, a new name 
for Renanthera histrionica, Rchb. f.; Pelatantheria, which includes 
Cleisostoma cristata, Ridl., and Sarcanthus insectifer, Rchb. f.; and 
Ascochilus, containing Sarcochilus hirtulus, Hook. f., and a new species 
(A. siamensis). 
A previous number of the work contains “An Enumeration of all 
Orchids hitherto recorded from Borneo,” by the same author, in which 
about fifty new species are described and one new genus—Porphyroglottis 
Maxwelliz, allied to Chrysoglossum. A new section of Bulbophyllum is 
also described, called Ir late, cl ised by its tall stiff scape, ending 
in a many-flowered raceme, though the flowers expand singly at intervals, 
as many as eighty occurring in one species. Three species are described, 
of which only one is Borneau. Three other species belong to the same 
section, namely B. longiscapum, Rolfe; B. macrochilum, Rolfe; and B. 
attenuatum, Rolfe; the first being from Fiji, and the two others from 
Borneo. 
The second part of the Dicti ive Iconographique des Orchidées, by Prof. 
A. Cogniaux and M. A. Goosens, has reached us, and contains figures of 
Cattleya Warscewiczii, C. X Hardyana, C. x Victoria-Regina, Cypripe- 
dium Stonei, Dendrobium nobile, D. n. Cook i 5 Ai hi 
D. x Cassiope, Lzlio-cattleya Nysa, L.-c. X Proserpine, Miltonia 
Schreederi and Selenipedi Sedeni, 
