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Warner’s Select Orchidaceous Plants (iii, t. 16). It has now appeared in the 
collection of W. S. M’Millan, Esq., Maghull, near Liverpool, from whom 
we have received a flower, together with a very brightly coloured form of 
the species and a good C. Mendelii. 
A fine raceme bearing thirteen flowers of a most interesting plant of 
Odontoglossum crispum is sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., 
Walton Grange, Stone, by Mr. Stevens. It is the first O. crispum ever 
purchased by Mr. Thompson, and has been in the collection twenty-eight 
years last January. It is a good, typical, nearly unspotted form, with a 
tinge of rose in the sepals. Mr. Stevens remarks that ‘the plant, though 
not large, looks like going on for another twenty-eight years, with the same 
care,’ and as such plants are continually renewing themselves there seems, 
apart from accidents, no particular limit to their existence, provided only 
their requirements are attended to. It is now pretty obvious that if O. 
crispum deteriorates under cultivation, there is something wrong in the 
treatment. 
We learn that the firm of Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., of Southgate, 
has been dissolved by mutual consent, and that the business will in future 
be carried on by Messrs. Stanley Mobbs and Ashton, at the same address. 
OBITUARY. 
WE regret to hear of the death of Mr. Henry Mason, of Bankfield, 
Bingley, which took place in London on June 11th last. His collection of 
Odontoglossums was, we believe, one of the choicest in the North of 
England, and contained many valuable and unique forms. The late Mr. 
Mason purchased only plants in flower, and paid some high prices to several 
of the trade firms for choice varieties. 
MASDEVALLIA ANGULATA. 
Another interesting species of Masdevallia has been introduced to 
cultivation, namely M. angulata, Rchb. f:, which was described in 1878 
from dried specimens (Otia Bot. Hamb., i. p. 15). It was exhibited by Mr. 
J. O'Brien at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on June 14th last, 
and received a Botanical Certificate. It is a native of Ecuador, and was 
originally discovered by Mr. F. C. Lehmann, from whom the living plants 
have since been received. It is allied to M. Mooreana, and is very similar 
in colour, but it is markedly different in its relatively longer leaves and 
shorter scapes, as well as the shorter perianth, the free part of the sepals, 
including the tails, being much less attenuate. 
R, ALR, 
