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broad, and all parts of the lip marked with thick purple bars. It occurs at 
Lady Elliott’s Island. 
VaR. NITIDUM, F. M. Bail., dates from 1885 (Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. i. 
p- 10), and has numerous slender stems, 13 to 2 feet high, and often not 
more than half an inch broad, with lanceolate leaves, 6 to 7 inches long, 
by 14 to 2 inches broad, racemes 6 to 8 inches long, bearing from 20 to 30 
white flowers, 6 to 7 lines long, and the lip with short purple lines at the 
base. It is a native of tropical Queensland. 
An allied species should be mentioned here, as it was originally 
described in 1885, as D. speciosum var. delicatum, F. M. Bail. (Proc. Roy.. 
Soc. Queensl. i. p. 11), but was afterwards made a species— 
D. DELicaTuM, F. M. Bail. (Queensl. Fl. v. p. 1527). It is said to have 
humerous stems, often forming large patches on rocks, &c., slender above 
but often much enlarged at the base; leaves three or four at the apex,. 
rather thin, 3 to 5 inches long, by } to 1} inches broad, racemes 7 to 8: 
inches long, with eight or nine distant fragrant white flowers, 6 to 8 lines 
long, and the lip white, speckled with purple. The locality is given as. 
Main Range, near Toowoomba. 
ORCHIDS AT ENFIELD. 
By J. M. Brack. 
I FouNnD a keen pleasure in going through the Orclfid department of the- 
very extensive Nurseries of Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, | 
Enfield, and notwithstanding the enormous number of Orchids cultivated 
here, I found the houses well and orderly arranged, the work well in hand, 
and the plants particularly clean and strong. This collection is well 
stocked with the more curious than beautiful kinds of Orchids, as well as 
the popular plants of commerce, and it will be quite impossible for me in a 
short note to do anything like justice to all. 
Special features of this collection are the choice Cypripediums, albino. 
Cattleya species, choice Dendrobiums, the unique lot of flowered and 
unflowered Cattleya Mendelii in sheath, the unique lot of Odontoglossum 
Pescatorei, and the very complete collection of Cymbidiums. My visit took 
place about the middle of March, and I shall now endeavour to give a short 
review of the houses as they were then. 
The Odontoglossums are spread over several houses, the first entered. 
being full of O. crispum, some seven thousand plants, perhaps half the 
number not yet flowered. Among a number of semi-established plants 
some very meritorious varieties were opening, being full in form and having 
sufficient evidence of spotting to give hope for good things to come. It is 
interesting to record, in view of recent discussions, that these were imported. 
from the districts round Velez. There was a good show of flowers in this 
