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of O. crispum were in flower, one having the sepals and lip prettily spotted) 
with light purple. Capsules of O. cirrhosum X Hallii, and the reverse, were 
pointed out, also O. Pescatorei xX facetum, and O. facetum x crispum,. 
together with O. crispum X Miltonia vexillaria, which should prove interest- 
ing if seedlings result. 
In a stove, or warm fernery, we noted a plant of Peristeria elata,. 
which has recently flowered, Angrecums sesquipedale, eburneum, and 
superbum, Oncidium flexuosum, Aérides odoratum, suavissimum, and. 
Houlletianum, Rhynchostylis retusa, in bud, Ccelogyne Massangeana im 
flower, C. cristata, Stanhopea tigrina, and good examples of Vanda. 
coerulea and Lelia purpurata, all the plants being strong and healthy. 
About three dozen Dendrobium Wardianum were doing well in a vinery, 
some of the bulbs being three feet long, and in a cooler house were 
examples of Cymbidium Lowianum, Tracyanum and eburneum. 
Mr. Grogan has a most interesting little collection, and from his success 
as a grower and the experiments in progress we should not be surprised to 
see a considerable development during the next few years. 
MAXILLARIA GRACILIS. 
THis pretty little Brazilian species has again appeared in cultivation, @ 
plant having recently flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 
which agrees with the original described and figured by Loddiges in 1832: 
(Bot. Cab., t.1837). The author briefly remarked :—‘‘ This curious little 
plant isa native of Brazil: itis very slender in its habit, and does not exceed 
the height of four inches. With us it flowered in the month of August, 
in the stove, which is constantly necessary for its preservation. It may some- 
times be separated for increase, and should be potted in moss, vegetable 
earth, and small pieces of broken pots.” In 1877 it was again described by 
Rodrigues, under the name of M. Queirogana (Gen. et Sp. Orch. nov., i., P» 
116), from materials found on the Organ Mountains, flowering in December. 
The plant grows in a neat little tuft, having ovoid-oblong diphyllous 
pseudobulbs less than an inch long, narrowly linear-oblong leaves four to 
five inches long, and slender scapes, shorter than the leaves. The flowers 
are light yellow, with the midrib and margins of the sepals reddish, a few 
purple spots on the lip, and some reddish stripes on the face of the column. 
It may be described as a miniature species of the M. picta group. Several 
of the larger species of this group are occasionally met with in cultivation, 
for example M. picta, M. porphyrostele, M. acutipetala, M. punctata and 
M. marginata, all of which require Intermediate house treatment, and are 
of the easiest possible culture. 
R.A.R- 
