THE ORCHID REVIEW. : 
June, 1890. It is allied to P. articulata, Lindl., but is more erect and 
robust and larger in all its parts.—Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 6. 
EPIDENDRUM (BARKERIA) PALMERI, Rolfe.—A _ distinct Epidendrum 
belonging to the section Barkeria, collected by Mr. Edward Palmer, at 
Colima, Mexico, in 1891. It is characterised by its narrow leaves, small 
bracts, and numerous flowers with papillose nerves to the lip. It is 
described from dried specimens.—Kew Builletin, 1893, p. 6. 
SARCOCHILUS MuUScOosUS, Rolfe.—A botanical species, sent from the 
Andaman Islands, together with Phaleznopsis tetraspis, by E. H. Man, 
Esq. It flowered in the Kew collection in November last. It has dull 
yellow flowers spotted with red-brown, and a white lip with a few small 
purple spots round the mouth of the spur. The scapes are hispid.—Kew 
Bulletin, 1893, p. 7 
PELEXIA MACULATA, Rolfe.—A distinct species, with olive-green leaves 
blotched with whitish green on the upper surface, and dull purplish green 
below. The flowers are pale dull green, the sepals and petals tipped with 
pink, and the lip white. It flowered in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden in 
July last, under the care of Mr. F. W. Moore. It is believed to have been 
introduced by Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., of Clapton, but its habitat is not 
recorded.—Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 7. | 
CYPRIPEDIUM VILLOSUM var. Gortoni, O’Brien.—A variety sent to Dr. 
Gorton, of Maida Vale, London, by his nephew, from the extreme north of 
Barma. It chiefly differs from the type in its more purple flowers, the 
dorsal sepal with a green area near the apex and a white margin.— 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, January r4th, p. 40. 
MASDEVALLIA TROGLODYTES. 
A plant of this curious Masdevallia is now flowering in the Glasnevin 
Botanic Garden under the charge of Mr. F. W. Moore. The species was 
originally sent from New Granada by M. Lalinde, and was sold at Stevens’ 
Rooms in April, 1873, and flowered in the collection of M. Oscar Lamarche 
de Rossins, of Liége, in December, 1876, when it was described by 
E. Morren. It has a cup-shaped perianth, something like that of M. 
Carderi but less truncate, the colour inside, as well. as the tails, blackish 
maroon, but outside of a dingy grey. The name was given in allusion to 
the petals and column looking like a ‘‘ Troglodyte hidden in his cave.” The 
"esemblance, however, is more apparent in the coloured plate (cited below) 
than in the living specimen. ‘The fact is the petals and column of most of 
~ Species of the section Saccolabiatze would serve equally well as an 
illustration. 
Masdevallia Troglodytes, E. Morr. in Belg. Hort., xxvii. (1877), P97, t 5+ 
