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examples of O. crispum, Pescatorei, and triumphans, a good O. xX excellens,. 
x stauroides, and a fine O. X Andersonianum, bearing four side: 
branches and an aggregate of forty flowers. A good form of O. crispum: 
also carried a spike of fourteen flowers. It is hardly necessary to state that 
the plants are very well grown, but some of the plants of O. crispum have: 
been here from fifteen to twenty years, which shows how well their 
requirements are understood. 
We hed not yet seen the young seedlings, and being anxious to do so. 
we asked M. Vuylsteke for the privilege, but for some occult reason it was. 
not granted. It can hardly be that the method of raising them is any 
longer considered a secret, for a photograph of Mr. Thompson’s seedlings, 
accompanied by full details of the method of treatment, were given at 
pp. 41-43 of the present volume. In any case the circumstance was a 
little disappointing, and we were the more pleased when on the following 
day M. Peeters showed us his seedlings, at Brussels, and made no secret of | 
his method of procedure, as described at page 131, last month. Apart from 
this circumstance we were very pleased with our visit, and the sight of a 
thousand seedling Odontoglossums in or near the flowering stage was a 
sight to be remembered. 
(To be continued.) 
DENDROBIUM CREPIDATUM ALBUM. 
An albino of the pretty Dendrobium crepidatum has appeared in the 
collection of Darcy E. Taylor, Esq., The Rocks, Marshfield, Chippenham, 
It is a small imported plant, and a flower has been sent to us, together 
with one of the typical form. It is one of the peculiarities of this species. 
that the pedicels of the flowers are rose-coloured, much darker than the 
sepals and petals, but the albinism in the present case is so complete that 
the pedicels are pure white, like the sepals and petals, also the apex and 
margin of the lip. The disc of the lip is of the usual orange-yellow colour. . 
It is a charming little plant, and should be taken care of, for we do not 
find a previous record of the appearance of an albino of the species. 
There is a curious partially cleistogamous form of the species, in which the 
flowers either do not open properly or close again very quickly, owing to- 
their being self-fertile. This seems to be the case with the Sikkim form, 
which Mr. Pantling remarks is usually, if not invariably, self-fertile, and 
hence is unattractive in appearance, and represents a stage in the 
transition to cleistogamy. It occasionally appears in cultivation, but 1s- 
not taken care of, as it lacks the beauty of the Assam and spas 
