302 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
As regards its culture, it should be borne in mind that C. superba grows 
in the same region, which is low-lying, and the climate hotter and with a 
more decided alternation between the wet and dry seasons than where 
some of its allies grow. Consequently these two species succeed best under 
a little warmer treatment. It is also interesting to note that the natural 
hybrid C. x Brymeriana occurs where C. Eldorado and C. superba grow 
together, these being its two parents, and the hybrid naturally requires the 
same treatment. 
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CATTLEYA ELONGATA. 
This, as pointed out at p. 206, is an older name for C. Alexandre, 
having been described in a work published at Rio de Janeiro in 1877, 
though nothing was known about it in Europe until recently, and eight 
others described by the same author have proved synonymous with 
previously described species. C. elongata, however, must be recognised 
now that its identity is known. The species is now common in cultivation, 
and as it is becoming established should flower better this autumn. A 
plant of the rose-coloured variety in the Orchid house at Kew is bearing 
a raceme of four flowers, and is very effective. It is certainly a very 
attractive Cattleya as seen in its best forms, and the undulate petals give 
it a very distinct appearance, and when it becomes strong enough to 
produce racemes of ten flowers, as in the wild dried specimens, it will be 
worth seeing. We have not yet heard of one with anything like this 
number of flowers, for, of course, the published figures are made up with 
the help of dried specimens. 
SATYRIUM CANDIDUM. 
A very interesting and beautiful species of Satyrium has recently flowered, 
both in the collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq., Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 
and at Kew. It is Satyrium candidum, Lindl. (Bot. Reg., xxiv., Misc., 
p. 82). The species was originally described in 1838, from plants brought 
home by Sir John Herschel, from the Cape of Good Hope, which flowered 
in his garden at Regent’s Park during October of that year. It was 
recorded as having pure white flowers, emitting a most delightful aromatic 
fragrance, and the sheaths of the stems inflated and so grown together as to 
form a kind of cup, capable of holding water. These characters apply 
equally well at the present time. 
Several other species of the genus are now cultivated in a few collections, 
and it is very interesting to find that these pretty little plants are again 
receiving attention, for they are very attractive when in flower, and succeed 
well in a greenhouse or cold frame. Cape Orchids generally have received 
_ More attention during recent years, and a very — little group of 
them oe now be got together. 
