SEPTEMBER, 1907.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 283 
(callosum X ciliare). Here, too, appeared the unique albino of C. 
venustum, known as variety Measuresianum, which received an Award of 
Merit from the R.H.S. in December, 1893 (O.R. ii. p. 11). A hybrid which 
will serve to perpetuate Mr. Measures’ name is Masdevallia X Measures- 
iana, raised by Messrs. Sander from M. tovarensis and M. amabilis, and 
figured in Reichenbachia (ser. 2, ii. p. 63, t. 76, fig. 3). The deceased 
was a brother of Mr. R. H: Measures, of The Woodlands, Streatham, 
whose collection was so recently dispersed. We believe that the present 
collection is also to be disposed of very soon, and that Mr. J. Smith, who 
has managed it so well for the last five years, will then be seeking another 
engagement. A note on the collection, by Mr. J. M. Black, appeared in our 
last issue (pp. 239-240). 
ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
Many interesting and showy Orchids are flowering in the Kew collection, 
and foremost among them must be mentioned the large plant of Gram- 
matophyllum speciosum over the tank in the adjacent Water Lily house, 
which is now producing three fine scapes. At the moment of writing 
several of the lower flowers are already expanded, and the plant is likely to 
be a centre of interest during at least the first three weeks in September. 
In one of the Warm houses a plant of the remarkable Cycnoches Eger- 
tonianum is bearing two female flowers, these being green in colour, while 
the other sex, which may appear later, is purple and wholly different in 
structure. Epidendrum X Berkeleyi, bearing two heads of flowers, is an 
acquisition, as brilliant in colour as the seed parent, E. X O’Brienianum, 
while greatly dwarfed by the influence of E. Stamfordianum, the other 
parent. Near by the graceful Neobenthamia gracilis carries three heads of 
flowers, and BulbophylJum saltatorium, nearly allied to B. barbigerum 
but smaller, nine racemes. There are also flowers of Coelogyne speciosa, 
| Epidendrum Parkinsonianum, Catasetum Trulla and C. Russellianum, 
Nephelaphyllum pulchrum, Dendrobium superbiens, and D. Dearei, the 
latter having been in flower for many weeks. 
The Cattleya house is gay with Cattleyas and allies, Miltonias and 
Oncidiums, the latter including O. curtum, pretextum, Wentworthianum, 
varicosum, oblongatum, bracteatum, ornithorhynchum, and some others. 
The Brazilian Miltonias are invariably showy in late summer and autumn, 
and the earliest now include M. spectabilis Moreliana, M. X castanea with 
eight racemes, and M. x Cogniauxize with its variety bicolor, the two last 
as different in colour as are M. spectabilis and its var. Moreliana, from 
which the two former are believed to be in part derived. M. Roezlii is also 
in bloom. Cattleyas include fine examples of C. Grossii with si 
-C. velutina with three, C. Warscewiczii with four, with exam 
xX racemes, 
ples of C. 
