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I did not see this particular plant, but a piece in pretty similar condition 
was presented to Kew by Messrs. Low. One stem produced a long pen- 
dulous spike, and another a short spike of four buds, and while they were 
small it was thought that they were females, and this sex being unknown 
they were naturally watched with much interest, but before opening it was 
seen that this would not be the case. When received the clump was seen 
to contain two plants, hence they were potted separately. At the R.H.S. 
meeting held on November roth, and before the buds mentioned on the 
Kew plant had expanded, a plant called C. peruvianum, bearing two long 
pendulous racemes, was exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., and this 
plant I found belonged to C. maculatum, Lindl. Messrs. Low shortly 
afterwards communicated the fact that their plants had been obtained from 
Venezuela with C. chlorochilon. It had long been known that C. 
chlorochilon and C. maculatum were natives of Venezuela, but the know- 
ledge that they actually grow intermixed is I think new, and certainly 
interesting. How the name C. peruvianum became transferred to C. 
maculatum is not clear, for though the flowers of the two are very similar in 
colour they differ much in size, those of C. maculatum being much the 
larger. The history of the species has already been given (O.R., iv. p. 228), 
and now we may hope that the female flowers will soon put in an appear- 
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NEW ORCHIDS. 
A THIRTY-SECOND decade of New Orchids appears in a recent issue of the 
Kew Bulletin, eight of the species being in cultivation, as follows :— 
LiparRIs RHODOCHILA, Rolfe.—A Javan species, imported by Messrs. 
J. W. Moore & Co., Rawdon, and exhibited by them at a meeting of the 
R.H.S. on August 18th last (supra, p. 278). It is now in the collection of 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, at Burford. It is allied to L. bicolor, J. J. Sm., and 
has light green flowers with a reddish crimson lip.—Kew Bull., 1908, p. 412. 
BULBOPHYLLUM Drxont, Rolfe.—A native of Siam, in the mountains 
round Chengmai, where it was collected by Dr. Arthur Kerr. It flowered in 
the Trinity College Botanic Garden in February, 1908, and was sent to Kew 
for determination by Dr. H. H. Dixon, after whom itis named. It is allied 
to B. Pechei, Bull (Bot. Mag., t. 7268), and has greenish yellow flowers, 
spotted with brown.—l.c., p. 412. 
IONE GRANDIFLORA, Rolfe.—A Burmese species, which flowered in the 
collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, at Burford, in November, 1902, and 
afterwards at Glasnevin, whence the habitat was obtained. It is allied to I. 
Andersoni, King and Pantl., but has flowers about three times as large, and 
dull purple throughout.—l.c., p. 413. 
IonE sIAMENSIs, Rolfe—Another of Dr. Arthur Kerr’s Siamese plants, 
