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tribes, Neottieze, Ophrydez, Epidendrez, and Vandez, and numerous sub- 
tribes—in fact, the great bulk of the Order. 
This is rather a digression from our original starting point, but so 
many people take an intelligent interest in the structure and economy of 
this remarkable family that no further apology may be offered. Further 
particulars may be found in my Review of the Apostasiez published in the 
twenty-fifth volume of the Fournal of the Linnean Society. 
Neuwiedia Lindleyi is a native of Borneo and the Island of Penang. 
Neuwiedia Lindleyi, Rolfe in fourn. Linn. Soc., xxv. p. 232, t. 48, figs. 10-12. 
R. Av KOE, 
DENDROBIUM ATROVIOLACEUM. 
This is a very beautiful species from New Guinea, which was introduced 
by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, about four years. It is 
allied to D. macrophyllum, A. Rich., though readily distinguished by the 
absence of the green moss-like covering to the ovary, and the much brighter 
and more handsome flowers. The sepals and petals are pale primrose- 
yellow, spotted with dusky brown, and the lip very deep violet-purple with 
a few green markings. Fortunately it has proved amenable to cultivation, 
and a healthy plant was exhibited by F. Wigan, Esq., Clare Lawn, 
East Sheen (gr. Mr. W. H. Young), at the meeting of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society on January 16th last, when it received a First-class 
Certificate. One growth carried a raceme of eight flowers, while a second 
one had four buds not yet expanded. It is a very handsome species. 
Dendrobium atroviolaceum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1890, i. p. 512. 
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CHYSIS BRUENNOWIANA. ~~ 
At the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting held on December rath 
last, a very distinct Chysis was exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of 
St. Albans, under the provisional name of C. Oweniana. It has, however, 
proved to be C. Bruennowiana, a species described in 1857 from dried 
species collected by Warscewicz, in Peru, whence also Messrs. Sander’s 
plants were obtained. It would appear to have been in cultivation before, 
for Reichenbach spoke of it as likely soon to flower in the collection of Herr 
Briinnow, of Berlin, but it was probably soon afterwards lost. It has the 
general habit of the genus, but the flowers are borne several together in a 
raceme, and are prettily suffused with pink on a light-yellow ground. It 
forms an interesting addition to the genus. 
Chysis Bruennowiana, Rchb. f. and Warscew. in Bot. Zeit., xv. p. 157. 
ce ROAR, 
