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Day made the usual careful painting (Orch. Draw. xvi. t. 59), but did not 
record anything about those anxious vigils. 
D. criniferum, on its flowering day, must be a striking thing. About 
a year ago a plant at Kew produced a nice crop of blooms, but no others 
were seen until June 2oth, of this year, when about six others appeared. 
Three or four days previously a plant of D. crumenatum had produced 
a few flowers. The detail may be recorded, because Mr. Ridley mentions 
the singular fact that in Singapore D. criniferum “ invariably opens its 
flowers the day before those of D. crumenatum expand.” The flowers of D. 
criniferum are whitish, with a three-lobed lip, which breaks up in front 
into a fringe of long spreading yellow filaments. The species was described 
in 1844, by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 1844, Misc. p. 41), from a plant which 
flowered in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at 
Syon House, and which had been received from Ceylon. It grows in 
Singapore, the adjacent Malayan Peninsula, Borneo, and also, according to 
Mr. J. J. Smith, in Java, Sumatra, and Celebes. This point may require 
verification, for Smith considers D. comatum, Lindl., and D. Zollinger- 
ianum, Teijsm. and Binn., as synonynous, but a specimen of the former in 
Lindley’s Herbarium looks different. Ridley states that D. criniferum grows 
in clumps, on trees, usually near the sea, and the flowers exhale a faint odour 
of cowslips. He also remarks that Desmotrichums, like many other 
Malayan Orchids, have no detinite flowering season, but at intervals of a 
few months every individual of of the same species flowers on the same day. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during August, on the 4th 
and 18th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
o’clock noon. The following meeting is fixed for September rst. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on August 13th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
Ito4p.m. The following meeting will be held on September 3rd. 
The two fine groups of Orchids exhibited by Messrs James Cypher & 
Sons and Messrs. Moore, Ltd., which gained an equal first prize for the 
best table of Orchids at the recent York Gala, are illustrated in the Gardeners’ 
Magazine for July 11th. 
A fine group of Cattleya Schroedere in flower in the establishment of 
Messrs. Duchesne et Lanthoine, of Watermael, is illustrated in the Revue 
de L’Horticuliure Belge for July 15th. 
