292 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OCTOBER, 1908. 
ORCHIDS AT GATTON PARK, REIGATE. 
ANOTHER interesting feature is being added to the fine collection of Orchids. 
at Gatton Park, Reigate, for when calling there the other day we were much 
pleased to find a number of rare botanical species in bloom. A good many 
such have been recently added to the collection, and among them batches 
from Australia and Java, which are gradually establishing themselves, and 
will provide additional attractions in the near future. Sir Jeremiah Colman 
expressed a great interest in these plants, and there is plenty of scope for 
development in this direction, many very interesting and even showy plants 
being still rare and almost unknown in cultivation. The remarkable Aus- 
tralian Dendrobium cucumerium is not found in many collections, but here 
was a healthy plant, with leaves resembling little cucumbers, and it has. 
already flowered. D. angulatum, a Javan species, was in bud, and two 
plants of the rare Bulbophyllum lemniscatoides—a plant we have not seen 
for years—were in bloom, The slender scape bears a short pendulous spike 
of hairy flowers, and from each sepal hangs a long slender appendage, as in 
the curious B. lemniscatum (Bot. Mag., t. 5961). One, however, requires a 
good lens to appreciate its remarkable character. Many showy things 
were in bloom, and may be mentioned in the order of our notes. 
The first house visited was gay with bloom, including several beautiful 
examples of Lzlio-cattleya Nysa, Phryne and luminosa, Cattleya x suavior,. 
x Wendlandiana, X amabilis, x Mrs. Pitt, x Iris, x Parthenia, and 
others, mostly forms raised in the collection and of great decorative value. 
Sophrocatlelia x Mary (L.-c. Helena x S. grandiflora) is a very promising 
hybrid which had just expanded a flower, showing a deep yellow ground. 
colour variously marked with red and orange. A plant of Dendrobium X 
Snowflake was covered with bloom, and there was a good example of the 
handsomely blotched Brassocattleya Mary. A hybrid from Lelia anceps X 
L.-c. Charlesworthii was pushing up a spike, and it will be very curious to 
see what the flowers are like. The species in bloom included three richly- 
coloured Phalznopsis Esmeralda, Bulbophyllum grandiflorum, B. Godseffi- 
anum, Cirrhopetalum appendiculatum with five flowers, C. fascinator, C- 
Macrzi, Catasetum viridiflavum with two fine spikes, Angraecum Scottianum, 
Dendrobium ciliatum, D. Phalaenopsis Gatton Park var., having violet mark- 
ings ay the lip, Ancistrochilus Thomsonianus, and Spathoglottis Fortunei, 
which is said to have been in bloom for months. It was bearing a capsule, 
as the result of crossing with S. plicata, but Mr. Bound has made numerous 
attempts to unite it with S. x Colmanii, both as seed and pollen parent, 
and always without success. 
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