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and the front lobe broadly dilated and bilobed at the apex. The crest is two- 
lobed in front, with an additional ear-shaped row of tubercles near the base 
of the side lobes. The colour of the lip is bright yellow with the crest and 
tubercles light brown. The column wings are very short, entire, and light 
yellow, closely dotted with brown. It is certainly a very handsome thing, 
and distinct from anything we can find. By an accident the original 
figure (Journ. Hort. 1906, ii. p. 267) was inserted upside down. 
It may be added that there are several very imperfectly known Brazilian 
Oncidiums which are believed to be of natural hybrid origin, and it would 
be interesting to have the question fully cleared up. There are difficulties 
in finding out exactly what species grow intermixed, and perhaps in rais- 
ing them artificially, though I do not knowif the experiment has been tried. 
It should not now be beyond the powers of some of our expert hybridists. 
R. A. RoLFE. 
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OBITUARY. 
Ricwarp Isaac MEASURES.—It is with much regret that we have to 
announce the death of Mr. R. I. Measures, which took place at his 
residence, Cambridge Lodge, Flodden Road, Camberwell, on August 8th. 
The deceased, who was 74 years of age, and has been in failing health for 
some time, as the result of a paralytic attack, has been an enthusiastic 
Orchidist for many years, just how long we do not remember, but in 
September, 1887, was published a List of Cypripediums in the collection of 
Mr. R. I. Measures, Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, which was followed 
by a second edition in July, 1889, and a List of Masdevallia and allied 
genera in June, 1890. Both groups were favourites with Mr. Measures, but 
other groups were well represented in his collection, which was quite a 
representative one, occupying about eighteen houses, as may be seen by 
an account which appeared in our second volume (pp. 102-106). The 
collection was frequently represented at the meetings of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, one of our earliest recollections of it being in this 
connection, when the handsome Odontoglossum platychilum flowered there 
for the first time, in March, 1892. It was quite new, and nothing was 
known about it except that it had been purchased by Mr. Measures out 
of an odd lot when the Downside collection was sold. Only quite recently 
has its origin and history become fully known (O.R. xiv. p. 61). . 
Siamese Cypripedium exul also flowered here for the first time in Europe 
in April, 1892, receiving an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. A good deal 
of attention has been paid to hybridisation, and among the hybrids which 
occur to us as raised here are Cypripedium x Apollo (vexillarium x 
Stonel); C. x Indra (callosum x _ villosum), C. x Nandii (callosum x 
Tautzianum), C. X Wottoni (callosum x bellatulum), and C. x 4eu§ 
