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NOVELTIES. 
Ca:LOGYNE CRISTATA, WOODLANDS VARIETY.—Another variety of the 
beautiful Ccelogyne cristata has appeared, this time in the collection of R. 
H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham. It has the shape and size 
of C. c. Lemoniana, but the disc, instead of being citron yellow, is very pale 
primrose. Compared side by side the two are very distinct in the character 
pointed out. It is very beautiful, and adds variety to the forms of this 
useful garden Orchid. We have seen nothing like it before. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X PITTIANA.—A natural hybrid imported by Messrs. 
F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, it is said, from the neighbourhood of 
Pernambuco. It is compared with Lelio-cattleya x Schilleriana, and the 
parents are conjectured to be Cattleya guttata Prinzii (7.c., C. amethysto- 
glossa) and Lelia grandis—neither of which, by the way, grow at Pernam- 
buco. The pseudobulbs are diphyllous; the raceme three to five-flowered ; 
the flowers are four inches in diameter; the sepals and petals creamy- 
white, tinged with rose and having a few minute dots of crimson; and the 
lip nearly entire, the front lobe and tips of the side-lobes rich amethyst- 
purple, and the rest nearly white. The figure shows much resemblance to 
Lelio-cattleya x albanense in shape, but the two-leaved pseudobulbs show 
that it cannot be a variety of it. We should suggest that it came from 
Bahia.—O’ Brien in Gard. Chron., March 3rd, pp. 264, 265, fig. 27- 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM GUILELMI II., Kranzl.—A new Guinea species 
allied to G. Fenzlianum, Rchb. f., but larger, the racemes over a yard long 
and bearing from twenty to thirty-five flowers about three inches in diameter. 
It was introduced by Messrs. F. Sander and Ce., St. Albans, through their 
collector Micholitz.—Gartenflora, March Ist, p. 114. 
DENDROBIUM AUGUST# VicToRI#&, Kranzl.—A species with the same 
origin as the preceding, which has flowered in the collection of Herr 
Karnbach, of Berlin. It belongs to the section Antennata, and is allied to 
D. Mirbelianum, Gaud., and D. Albertisii, Rchb. f. The sepals are white, 
the petals pale yellow, veined with purple, and the tip rose-purple. The 
raceme is long and many-flowered.—Gartenflora, March Ist, p. I15. 
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LYCASTE SKINNERI ALBA. 
In the March number of THE Orcuip REVIEW (p. 64), a correspondent 
inquires as to my method of growing Lycaste Skinneri alba. Let me say 
at once that if any credit attaches to my successful cultivation of this 
