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disc, and the lip ivory-white, with bands of dull maroon, formed of numerous 
suffused spots, on the upper half of the hypochil inside. The column is pale 
green, with ivory-white wings. It is allied to S. eburnea, Lindl., and S. 
Reichenbachiana, Roezl, but differs from the former in its globose hypochil 
and buff sepals and petals, and from the latter in having the mesochil solid, 
not deeply channelled. The flowers have a sweet, Narcissus-like scent.— 
Kew Bulletin, p. 63. The photograph here reproduced is from a flower 
kindly communicated by Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. 
AERIDES PLATYCHILUM, Rolfe.—A distinct and pretty Aérides, which 
flowered with Mr. F. W. Moore, at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, in April, 
1892. It is allied to A. Houlletianum, Rchb. f., but the front lobe of the 
lip is flat, not plicate, and the side lobes are only free above the middle, not 
divided to the base and spreading. The sepals and petals are light buff, 
faintly stained with purple near the apex, and the lip pale yellowish-white, 
with a bright purple apex and some light purple bars on the side lobes. 
The native country is not known.—Kew Bulletin, p. 64. 
SACCOLABIUM MoorEANUM, Rolfe.—A native of New Guinea, introduced 
with Dendrobium Phalenopsis, by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. 
Albans. It flowered with Mr. F. W. Moore, at the Glasnevin Botanic 
Garden, in October last ; then with Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, 
Dorking, in November; and shortly afterwards with C. J. Lucas, Esq., of 
Warnham Court, Horsham. It is allied to S. Mimus, Rchb. f., and two or 
three other Polynesian species. The flowers are densely arranged in a 
short cylindrical raceme, the colour light rose, tipped with green.—Kew 
Bulletin, p. 64. 
ANGRECUM BISTORTUM, Rolfe.—A native of West Africa, collected in 
the interior of the colony of Lagos, by Sir Alfred Malony, K.C.M.G., and 
brought to Kew by Mr. J. McNair, late Curator of the Lagos Botanical 
Station. It is allied to A. arcuatum, Lindl., but has smaller flowers, and 
the spur of the lip is curved into a loop, and its tip remains tightly clasped 
by the sheathing bract. It flowered at Kew, in January, 1892.—Kew 
Bulletin, p. 65. 
Bietia Gopserriana, Kranzl. in Gard. Chron., April 15th, p- 442 ae 
very old species under a new name, Bletia acutipetala, Hook., a eset 
of the West Indies, Mexico, and Guatemala. 
OpDoNTOGLossuM KRranziinu, O’Brien.—Introduced from Columbia, by 
Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, and very nearly allied to = 
odoratum, Linden.— Gard. Chron., April 15th, p. 442. 
