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paper. Whether all are correct is doubtful, but I have seen living specimens 
from stations as far distant as Lancashire, Northumberland, Hampshire, 
and Cambridgeshire, and no doubt there are many other stations. It is 
quite distinct from O. latifolia, with which it has been confused. I have a 
plant from the Bransbury Marsh station, in Hampshire, now in flower. 
A. R. 
EPIDENDRUM TRACHYCHILUM. 
Tuis is a striking species of the Encyclium section of the genus which 
is still very imperfectly known, though it appeared in two groups at the 
recent Holland House Show. It was discovered by Hartweg on the Cumbre 
de Choacas, Mexico, and was included in Bentham’s Plante Hartwegiane 
(p. 92), under the erroneous name of E. alatum, Batem., a fact pointed out 
by Lindley when describing it for the first time in 1853 (Fol. Orch., Epidendr. 
p- 19). Hartweg appears to have sent home living plants, for Lindley 
mentions cultivated specimens, and also made a very accurate painting of 
the lip on his herbarium sheet. The flowers are about as large as in 
E. virens, but the sepals and petals are more or less suffused with olive- 
brown, and the greenish-yellow lip has a very undulate front lobe, studded 
all over with minute purple papillz, to which character it owes its specific 
name. The crest and side lobes are veined with purple. E. alatum is 
readily distinguished by its longer, narrower sepals and petals, a yellow 
border round the lip, and the absence of papilla. Like the species already 
mentioned, and E. ionosomum, Lindl. (another near ally), the flowers are 
very fragrant. The only published figure that I know of appeared in 
1885 (Gartenflora, xxxiv. p- 291, t. 1205), but the flowers there represented 
are small and weak. It appears to have been re-introduced of late years, 
and Mr. Bull obtained a plant in 1893. i Ack. 
LACAENA BICOLOR. 
Tuis striking Orchid, which was described by Lindley upwards of sixty 
years ago, has again appeared in cultivation, but, unfortunately, under a 
wrong name, it being exhibited as Acineta Hrubyana at a recent R.H.S. 
meeting (Gard. Chron. 1907, i. p- 427). It has been very unfortunate in 
this respect, having received a new name on four different occasions of its 
Te-appearance, these being, successively, Peristeria longiscapa, Acineta 
Wrightii, Lueddemannia Sanderiana, and Acineta Hrubyana. It is a 
Central American plant, which was originally discovered by Hartweg, and 
flowered in the collection of the Horticultural Society. Its history has 
already been given in these pages (O.R. vi. p. 199). It closely approaches 
Lueddemannia in habit. The history of the true Acineta Hrubyana, 
Rchb. f., was also given shortly afterwards (O.R. vii. Pea0g), — K. ALR: 
