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was sent for determination by Mr. C. Ford, of the Hong Kong Botanic 
Garden, which had been obtained from Manila, and was described as very 
showy, having whitish flowers with claret-coloured lip. The same species 
was collected by Loher, in April, 1902, in the Philippines, which com- 
pletely confirms the locality. It is very nearly allied to E. Dillwynii, which 
is also a Philippine species, but has petals of the same colour as the sepals, 
and a differently shaped lip, with shorter, pallid side lobes. In E. rhodoptera 
the inflorescence measures six to eight inches long, and the large and 
numerous bracts, the inflorescence, pedicels, sepals and front lobe of the 
lip are all whitish straw-colour, with which the reddish-purple petals and 
side lobes of the lip form a very striking contrast. It is well worthy of 
cultivation, the chief drawback being that the flowers in this group do not 
last very long. 
A still earlier Philippine species of the same group is E. longilabris, 
Lindl. (Bot. Reg., 1838, Misc. p. 38; 1844, t. 29, fig. 3), which was introduced 
by Cuming, and flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. It has larger flowers, and 
a much longer lip, though the red side lobes and similar general appearance 
indicate a very near affinity to E. rhodoptera. R.A.R. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
THREE very handsome Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of A. 
Warburton, Esq., Haslingden, near Manchester, by Mr. Dalgleish. O. X 
ardentissimum Warburton’s var. is a large and finely-shaped flower, having 
the sepals and petals very heavily and regularly blotched with violet-purple, 
and broadly margined with white, while the broadly pandurate lip is white 
with some red-purple blotches round the yellow crest. O. crispum 
Britannia is a fine thing, having a very large almost rectangular red-brown 
blotch on éach petal, and a few additional dots on the white ground ; sepals 
with smaller blotches and a ground colour tinged with purple, and the 
broad lip with three irregular elongated blotches in front of the yellow 
crest. The third is called O. X eximium Warburton’s var., and is said to 
have been raised in the collection from O. crispum Kegeljani x 
ardentissimum. The shape is excellent, all the segments being very broad, 
copiously blotched with claret-brown, and margined with white, the 
blotches themselves being separated by narrow white lines. The lip is 
white with a large zone of red-brown round the yellow crest, and a few 
small dots behind. It is as beautiful as the others, and shows its origin 
very distinctly. 
A twin-flowered scape of Paphiopedilum bellatulum is sent from the 
collection of R. Leslie Cook, Esq., Millfield, Grimsby, who remarks that 
the plant was obtained with others from Messrs. J. W. Moore early in the 
year, 
