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hairy brown flowers, and the lip violet-rose, with a longitudinal yellow crest 
of deflexed toothed scales on the disc, passing into clavate hairs at the base. 
The flowers are much like those of Vanilla in structure. Bentham reduces 
it to Galeola, but it has green leaves, closely resembling those of 
Epistephium, though it has not the little cupulate calyculus found at. the 
base of the perianth of that genus. It was very imperfectly described by 
Reichenbach, and I am inclined to think that the plant described and 
figured by Kranzlin under the name of Epistephium Regis-Alberti (Xen. 
Orch., iii. p. 158, t. 291) is the same species. 
Epistephium is a Tropical American genus of about a dozen species, 
having showy purple flowers much like those of Vanilla in structure, but 
in habit it is nearer Sobralia. It is readily distinguished from its allies by 
the presence of a small cupulate calyculus at the base of the perianth. E, 
Williamsii, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag., t. 5485), is the only one I know to have 
been in cultivation. R. A. ROLFE. 
' (To be continued.) 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A CHARMING blush-white form of Cattleya Mendelii, having a large light 
purple marbled blotch in front of the yellow disc, is sent from the collection 
of James Geddes, Esq., Ascot. It is from a plant imported in 1907, now 
producing a four-flowered spike for the first time. 
A very fine torm of Cattleya Warneri is sent from the collection of 
P. C. P. Lupton, Esq,, Wellingtons, Southminster, Essex, also a good form 
of Leliocattleya Schilleriana. They are from a large collection made 
during a long residence in the State of Rio Paulo, Brazil, with a few others 
purchased or given by friends there. 
Several interesting Orchids are sent from the collection of J. J. Neale, 
Esq., Penarth, by Mr. Haddon. A plant of Thunia x Veitchiana has 
produced a branched inflorescence, there being a side branch with two 
flowers. Mr. Haddon does not remember such a thing before, but remarks 
that the plants are very strong this year. He also mentions a plant of 
Brassia verrucosa with eight spikes, and some good plants of Epidendrum 
vitellinum with six, making a good show. Flowers are also sent of the 
handsome Lelia grandiflora (majalis), Cattleya Aclandiz, a good forin of 
Leliocattleya Measuresii (C. maxima xX L. pumila prestans), good 
blotched forms of Odontoglossum crispum, O. x Fascinator, Bifrenaria 
vitelliana, Dendrobium mutabile, the rare Masdevallia O’Brieniana, M. 
demissa, Lycaste aromatica, Maxillaria tenuifolia, the handsome 
Epiphronitis Veitchii, Paphiopedilum Parishii, and various familiar species 
which flower at this season of the year, from which it is evident that there 
is nowa fine show of bloom in the collection. 
