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LAELIO-CATTLEYA x ELEGANS AT STREATHAM. 
A large number of plants of this beautiful Orchid are grown in the 
collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, which we 
had the pleasure of seeing a few days ago. Here are about a hundred and 
twenty plants, most of them being either in flower or bud, and fifty of them 
being fully expanded. Most of the named varieties are contained in the 
collection, but instead of making a long enumeration, we refer our readers to 
page 235 of our last volume, where they are considered in detail. The 
plants are splendidly grown, and reflect great credit on Mr. Coles, under 
whose charge they are. The different forms vary greatly in colour, from the 
variety delicata, in which the sepals and petals are very pale green at first, 
but ultimately almost nankeen yellow, up to the deepest and richest forms 
allied to Turneri. There are some splendid six-flowered spikes, one of 
which, after being painted, has kindly been sent by Mr. Measures. It is 
called variety matuta, and has light rosy-purple sepals and petals with the 
slightest tinge of green, tightly-enrolled, almost pure white side lobes, and a 
nearly sessile, roundish, purple-crimson front lobe. It is a beautiful variety. 
Many Cattleya Leopoldi are in flower near them, and in going through such 
a number of plants one can easily trace its relation to the last-named and 
Lelia purpurata. It is notoriously variable, as hybrids generally are. 
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TRIGONIDIUM LATIFOLIUM. 
This species was described by Lindley (Bot. Reg. x. sub. t. 1923), as long 
ago as 1837, from a Brazilian drawing made by Descourtilz, who found it 
‘©on the trees that surround the foot of the mountain of La Bucunha, and 
on the borders of the Rio Parahyba, below the town of Rezende, flowering 
in January,” and strangely enough has remained practically unknown to the 
present day. It has now appeared in the collection of Henry M. Purchas, 
Esq., Chasedale, Ross., among plants imported from Brazil. It is allied to — 
T. obtusum, Lindl., but has oblong acute leaves with attenuate base, from 
six to about seven inches long, by nearly two inches broad, besides showing 
certain differences in the flower. The sepals are light yellow, suffused with 
light maroon-purple about the middle and somewhat veined below. The 
petals are beautifully nerved with purple-brown on a light ground, and have 
a similar blotch at the convex acute apex. The lip is half as long as the 
petals with a fleshy obtuse yellow front lobe, and narrow inflexed side-lobes, 
with a purple margin, and a few minute purple spots near the base. T. 
macrantha, Rodr. (Gen. e¢ Sp. Orch. nov., i. p. 105), from the Organ 
Mountains, according to the description, must be very near this, if not 
specifically identical. The re-discovery of a species so long imperfectly 
known is very interesting. The plant has been presented to the Kew 
collection. KA. K. 
