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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



suggested to him at the first glance that it was prob 

 L. Perrinii. And such it proved to bo when t 



Brazilian species." 



Odontoglossum Pescatorei was described as f 

 Odontoglots equal in beauty this most lovely 

 smallness of our plate forbids our doing justice. T 

 flowers is from two to three feet high, and not muc 

 branches extend. . . . A specimen in flower w- 

 Mr. Linden, and when exhibited, although long de' 

 Brussels, struck all who saw it with admiration, 

 assures us that those very flowers had been expaiv 

 had been, in fact, exhibited at a great Horticultural 

 the 14th March, when it received a prize, which i' 

 We observe that plants are offered for sale by Mr. L 

 2O0f. each— cheap enough. It has been named afte 

 French horticulturist, Mons. Pescatore, whose bear 

 St. Cloud, near Paris, contain, we believe, the fine 

 known upon the Continent, and are, perhaps, rich 

 even the best in England." 



Cycnoches aureum is a very remarkable plant 

 follows :— " To the very singular race of Swan-Ore 

 gratification of adding a new form, introduced fr< 

 Mr. Skinner. It is very near the ' Spotted." from w 



flowers, and a lip, the terminal lobe of which is she 

 and linear-lanceolate, while the appendages into 



considerably larger than the others. Is this a spec 

 C. maculatum, or of some other of this masquerad: - 

 stated who flowered it, and it is remarkable that 



Limatodes rosea, now known as Calanthe, was 

 by Thomas Lobb, and flowered abundantly \ 

 December, 1852; while Mormodes igneum flowere 

 at Wandsworth, and, with some others, is said to k: 



remarkable for its brilliant colour. 



The "Gleanings and Original Memoranda" 

 interesting novelties. Dendrobium bigibbum (fig. 

 from N. W. Australia, and flowered with Messrs. '. 



