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garden at Para, where it had been placed some years before when very 
small, but now the speciman measures five feet six inches high, by about 
three feet across. It grew very vigourously, but, so far as can be ascertained, 
has not flowered before, possibly because the climate kept it in a state of 
continual vegetative activity. Mr. Rand is said to have received it from 
the Phillippines, where, if the record is correct, it was presumably 
cultivated, as the species is not known to be indigenous there, thoigh it 
ranges from Northern India to Cochin China. On learning of Mr Kand’s 
death, Mr. John Cowan, Jun., went to Para to pack and bring home the 
collection, which was safely accomplished, and this specimen was purchased 
by Mr. le Doux, attached to the branch on which it still grows. 
The check attending its removal, or the different circumstances ‘under 
which it is now placed—perhaps both—has had a remarkable effect upon 
the plant, which has now yielded a magnificent display of its fragrant 
blossoms, sixty racemes in all, as depicted in the illustration. It was 
exhibited at the Liverpool Exchange News Room on August roth last, 
where it created quite a sensation, both among Orchidists and the general 
public, and, on the following day, it appeared at the meeting of the 
Manchester and North of England Orchid Society, when it received a 
Silver Medal. Mr. le Doux must be congratulated on possessing such a 
beautiful specimen, and his gardener, Mr. Archer, and Mr. Cowan, on the 
care they have taken in keeping it in such evident health during, and after, 
such a long and trying journey. It will be interesting to watch its future 
behaviour. An inflorescence sent shows the flowers to be white, tipped 
with purple on the sepals and petals, light green at the apex of the spur, 
and a purple line down the centre of the front lobe of the lip, and thus is a 
fairly typical form of Aérides odoratum. 
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ORCHIDS AT STREATHAM. 
L&LI0-CATTLEYA X elegans is better represented in the collection of R. H. 
Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, than in most other private 
establishments, and at the present time some twenty-five or more plants are 
in flower, while others are showing. Looking through these the other day, 
we made the following notes of the more striking forms. The old variety 
Turneri, with its obovate front lobe, was the darkest of those in flower, and 
was represented by two fine spikes. One called Sappho has rosy-purple 
_ Sepals and petals, and all three lobes of the lip very dark purple. Harold 
Measures has the front lobe of the lip quite sessile, extremely broad, and, as 
well as the tips of the side lobes, deep purple. One, called Mrs. Mahler, has 
the sepals and petals of a very light, greenish tint, with a few purple splashes 
