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eburneum will succeed C. Lowianum. In regard to Cypripediums, a few 
more are pushing up, the distinct C. niveum and bellatulum, with the 
showy C. Curtisii, Rothschildianum, and Selenipedium caudatum Wallisii. 
Megaclinium falcatum and minutum are two pretty West tropical African 
species. The showy Grammatophyllum Rumphianum is sending forth 
its spike also. Some Thunias are also very promising, and ought to be 
more extensively grown in collections, chiefly T. alba, Bensonze, Brymeriana 
and X Veitchiana, which are all easily cultivated if well rested. Platyclinis 
longifolia is also to be seen, also the beautiful Rhynchostylis retusa. Very 
handsome are Saccolabium gemmatum, miniatum, and longicalcaratum. 
The sweet scented Sarcochilus aureus is worth growing, but it is un- 
fortunate that its flowers do not last more than a day. Scuticaria 
Hadwenii and Steelii are beginning to show their flowers, which can 
be kept for a month if placed in a drier atmosphere, and a few Vandas 
will shortly decorate our warm department, viz: the brilliant V. teres, 
suavis, and tricolor. 
We have partly excluded botanical Orchids from our monthly narration, 
but an account of these appears under another heading, for many of them 
are very interesting, though they cannot hope to rival the more showy 
species. . 
ODONTO. 
ORCHIS MONOPHYLLA. 
A VERY interesting and pretty species from Upper Burmah, which flowered 
at. Kew in the early part of last year. It has been known for some time 
from dried specimens, having been collected by General Collett in 1888, 
on the Shan Hills, at an elevation of 4,000 feet. It was originally described 
as Habenaria monophylla (Coll. and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., xxviii, 
p- 134), but on examining the living flowers I find that the glands of the 
pollinia are enclosed in little sacs, precisely as in Orchis, to which genus 
it must be transferred. The leaves are exceedingly handsome, being 
marbled with blackish purple on a grey green ground, and although 
normally solitary, a second one is occasionally developed. The plant is 
about a foot high, pubescent, and bears an erect many-flowered raceme 
of lilac-purple flowers, with some darker purple spots on the three-lobed 
lip, and a curved spur. Except in the leaf it bears a good deal of 
resemblance to some of its European cousins. The extension of the 
genus to Upper Burmah is interesting, though it was previously known 
to reach the Himalayas and Japan. 
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