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friends, and should be taken care of. The specimen plant exhibited by Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, at the Temple Show in 1895, to which a Silver Flora 
Medal was given, will long be remembered. 
A flower of the beautiful Dendrobium crassinode Barberianum comes 
from the collection of F. H. Moore, Esq., ot Liverpool. It is characterised 
by having larger and darker tips to all the segments than the ordinary form. 
The present plant came out of an importation by Messrs. John Cowan & Co. 
We learn from Mr. White that the rare Masdevallia deorsa, in the 
collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, is now showing for flower for the first 
time in Europe. Its curious pendulous habit was noted at page 206 of 
our last volume. 
A very fine form of Dendrobium nobile has been sent by Messrs. F. 
Sander & Co., St. Albans, which appeared in a recent importation. It is 
very similar to the remarkable D. n. Hardyanum, but is not quite equal to 
it in size. The petals are 11 lines broad, and the lip 14 lines, the blotch 
being very broad and deep in colour. 
A curious double flower of Odontoglossum Pescatorei is sent from the 
collection of H. H. Bolton, Esq., Newchurch, Manchester, by Mr. 
Eastwood. The two pedicels are completely fused together, and the two 
adjacent lateral sepals are united back to back, but all the other parts are 
free and in the normal condition. 
A form of O. x Andersonianum is also sent, with yellow ground, and 
several small red-brown spots at the base of the segments, and thus 
belongs to the variety herbraicum. It came with some imported O. 
crispum. 
Dendrobium Wardianum Broomeanum is a striking variety from the 
collection of Joseph Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno. It is 
characterised by the back of the sepals being suffused with bright rose, 
which stains through to the front, and the tips of all the segments are 
bright purple, and very sharply defined. A very fine flower of Lycaste 
Skinneri is also sent. 
A good flower of the rare Lzlia Boothiana is sent from the collection. 
of W. M. Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare, in which the lip is 
prettily veined with bright purple on a lighter ground. 
An example of Dendrobium crassinode with fused flowers, from the 
collection of Reginald Young, Esq., of Sefton Park, Liverpool, has the 
peculiarity that the two are placed back to back, not side by side, as is 
