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manage to be in bloom on the same day, though it takes from two to th ee 
weeks until a new crop of flowers is matured. The whole house isf 
with their sweet perfume when these plants are in bloom, there being some- 
times as many as fifty or more flowers open together.” It is unfortunate 
that its beauty is so fleeting, for the photograph shows it to be a charming 
little plant, when the flowers are expanded. It reminds one of a small 
species of Phalzenopsis, and in fact it was once described as a Phalaenopsis 
with a new type of labellum, under the name of Phalenopsis fugax. 
The history of the species has already been given, as above cited, 
and it may be added that it has been lately re-introduced among 
importations from the Philippines, where only it is found, so far as 
our knowledge extends. The peduncles keep on lengthening and producing — 
a new crop of flowers at intervals, and perhaps Mr. Pope will some 
day tell us how long it is before they are ultimately exhausted, and what 
length they attain. A considerable number of species have this same 
fleeting character. . 
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EPIDENDRUM ATRORUBENS. 
THis very attractive Mexican species was described in 1896, from materials : 
supplied by Messrs. Linden, Brussels, in October, 1892 (Rolfe in Kew Bull. : 
1896, p. 46; Orch. Rev. iv. p. 102), and has since flowered in two oF three 
other collections. It is interesting to record that its history can now be 
carried back twenty years further, for in November, 1876, the same plant : 
flowered in the collection of John Day, Esq., of Tottenham, when it wa : 
thought to be E. diotum, Lindl., an allied but quite distinct species. Mt 
Day’s painting (Orch. Draw. xx. t. 35) exactly agrees with the hate 
examples, but the native country then appears to have been unknown 
Mr. Day remarks :—‘‘ Bought in flower at Stevens’, November 4th. 1876, 
at a sale of Backhouse’s plants. Bulbs round, 2 x 2 in., slightly tapering 
apex, clothed with whitey brown scales, dark purple in age. — : a 
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coriaceous, single, 8 inches long. Scape 4 feet, with two or three: 
distant branches.” There is another species of this affinity, described 
Reichenbach, in 1877 (Linnea, xli. p. 80). It came from Mr. Day, but 23 
not recorded among the latter’s drawings. It is said to be allied . 
plicatum, Lindl., and to have dark olive brown sepals and petals, “7 
yellow lip veined with dark purple. This does not, by any stretch . 
imagination, describe Mr. Day’s drawing above mentioned, nor yet 
plants which have since appeared, these having dark reddish purple 
and petals, and a rather lighter purple lip, so that what E. insidie 
Rehb. f,, really is must remain doubtful for the present. An 
