348 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Novemper, 1903. 
same source is more than we can say, but itis a curious coincidence that 
both five years from 1896 and twelve years from the present time (in neither 
case can the exact date be given) would take us back to 1891. A good 
plant is also flowering in the Kew collection. The perianth-tube is 6 
lines long by 3 lines broad, and the colour white, while the tails are 10 to 
11 lines long, rather stout, curved and reflexed, and deep orange yellow in 
colour. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
AUTUMN-FLOWERING Orchids are making a brilliant display at Kew, among 
the showier kinds now in bloom being a profusion of the beautiful 
Dendrobium Phalznopsis, examples of D. formosum, a lot of Calanthe x 
Veitchii, some brilliant Cattleya labiata and C. Bowringiana, Vanda ccerulea 
and V. Kimballiana, several good plants of the handsome Cynorchis 
purpurascens, a plant of C. Lowiana, some good examples of Oncidium 
crispum, O. varicosum, O. Papilio, and the fine O. tigrinum, Miltonia 
spectabilis Moreliana, M. Clowesii, M. candida, Lelia Perrinii, Epidendrum 
vitellinum, E. x O’Brienianum, Lycaste Skinneri, Cymbidium giganteum, 
the pretty little Phalzenopsis Esmeralda, Odontoglossum grande, and 
various other familiar species. 
Pleione lagenaria and P. maculata are now beginning to flower, and 
Neobenthamia gracilis must be mentioned as a very attractive rarity which 
is worthy of more attention. Two plants are in bloom, each carrying six 
or eight heads of pretty white flowers, with some yellow and a few purple 
spots on the disc of the lip. The plants are of branching habit, some three 
feet high, and the slender stems bear a profusion of grass-like foliage, which 
makes it very graceful when out of flower. It is a native of East Tropical 
Africa, and grows very freely in a warm house. 
Among other interesting things in flower may be mentioned the remark- 
able Cycnoches Loddigesii and C. chlorochilon, the natural hybrid 
Cymbidium X Gammieanum, Maxillaria grandiflora, M. variabilis, flowering 
profusely, Spathoglottis x kewensis, Lelia pumila, L. crispilabia, a good 
specimen of the pretty little Oncidium cheirophorum, Sophronitis cernua, 
and the floriferous Odontoglossum aspidorhinum. 
Restrepias are flowering freely, and include the true R. antennifera with 
striped flowers, R. maculata, which was for so long confused with the 
preceding, the taller and darker R. guttulata, R. erythroxantha, another 
nearly allied plant but differing in its pandurate lip, the pretty little R. 
Sanguinea, and the rare R. aspasicensium. Pleurothallis Warmingil is 
another remarkable Restrepia-like plant, with bristly leaf-sheaths, and 
