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but it is not easy to say which is its nearest ally. It has been suggested 
that it probably originated as a sport or abnormal form, perhaps from 
D. Brymerianum, but we fail to see any evidence of this. The fringes 
Suggest an affinity with the latter, but the habit and bracts are very 
different. The resemblance to D. capillipes is confined chiefly to habit, 
besides which it is much more robust, more racemose, and has larger 
flowers. In the bracts it closely resembles D. fimbriatum, as well as in the 
character of the lip, and although that has much longer bulbs, it is probably 
more nearly related to D. Harveyanum than those previously mentioned. 
Our figure is reproduced from a photograph of a plant in the collection of 
the Rev. F. D. Horner, Lowfields, Burton-in-Lonsdale, kindly sent through 
Mr. Eichel, of Bradford. So far as we know, the plant has only once 
previously been figured, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1894, Xvi., p. 593, 
fig. 76), we believe, from the self-same photograph, though the engraver has 
not reproduced the fringes accurately. The present illustration is an 
absolute fac-simile of the photograph, absolutely untouched by hand, and 
shows well the remarkable character of the flowers. The lower part of the 
photograph was omitted, and it will give an idea of the size of the pseudo- 
bulbs when we state that from the lower part of our figure to the base of the 
plant is exactly 23 inches. The line up the centre of the illustration is one 
of the wires by which the basket was suspended. The peduncle arises from 
the back of the left-hand pseudobulb, and may be seen below the lip of the 
left-hand flower. As regards culture, it is only necessary to add that the 
plant succeeds under the same treatment as other Burmese species of the 
same section of the genus. 
THE MANURING OF ORCHIDS. 
Ir any proof is necessary that these so-called “ Air plants’ require 
something more than the normal constituents of the atmosphere for their 
continued existence it is surely furnished in the reports which have appeared 
in your colums of the analysis of Cattleya flowers, and the development of 
aérial roots when the conditions are favourable is further evidence in the 
same direction. 
Mr. Wrigley’s communications on the use of a soot and lime mixture 
are especially interesting, and point toa cheap and apparently effective 
means of supplying at least the nitrogenous element, but it will be apparent 
to those who are acquainted with the volatile character of ammonia that 
in mixing the ingredients with water and leaving them for days prior to use, 
only covered with a cloth (presumably outside the houses), he is wasting the 
greater part of this food. 
