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IHE ORCHID WORLD. 



[February, 1915. 



exhibitor at the Royal Horticultural Society 

 he was well known, a notable instance being 

 at the Temple Show of i goo, when he received 

 a First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum 

 Souvenir de Victor Hye de Crom (Harryanum 

 X luteopurpureum), a name which has more 

 than once been the subject of a discussion on 

 nomenclature. 



The " Orchid Review." — The January 

 issue of this monthly journal contains an 

 article on Grammatophyllum speciosum and 

 its aUies, an interesting account of Orchids in 

 South Mexico, as well as illustrations of 

 Dendrobium Tofftii and Chondrorhyncha 

 Lipscombiae, both rare plants of considerable 

 beauty. 



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Epidendrum xanihinum. 



E P I D E x\ D R U M XANTHINU.M. — Those 

 amateurs who desire a bright orange-yellow 

 cluster of flowers cannot do better than 

 cultivate this Brazilian species, which appears 

 to require but ordinary care, and often does 

 well when planted in corridors and used as 

 a decorative plant. It was discovered by 

 Martius, and afterwards by Gardner on the 

 Serro de Frio, in the Brazilian province of 

 Minas Geraes, and was first introduced by 

 Lcddiges, about the same time as Epidendrum 

 mversum. The slender terete stems grow to 

 a height of about 3 feet, bear distichous 

 fieshy leaves, and produce during the winter 

 months a cluster of bright orange-yellow 

 flowers, the lips of which are prettily fringed. 



AeRIDES CITRATUM. — " To my mind," 

 writes a well-known amateur, " this Orchid is 

 one of the most graceful and prettiest that I 

 have ever come across, and its neat habit 

 allows it to be placed in almost any position 

 where it can show itself off to the finest 

 advantage. It appears to differ from other 

 members of its genus by the particularly free 

 manner m which it produces its many- 

 flowered spikes. I have also been considerably 

 interested in the formation of a few drops of 

 honey-like substance in the spur of each 

 flower ; no doubt in its native country this 

 secretion serves as an attraction to insects." 

 An illustration of this species will be found in 

 the Orchid World, Vol. IV., p. 153. 



