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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
Japanese specimens and drawings shows 
that two very distinct species have been 
confused. The object of the note is to clear 
up this confusion so far as the materials 
available permit. The article concludes with 
the revised synonymy. 
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Cattleya Mendelii Alfred Smee. — This fine 
variety, which received an Award of Merit 
exactly twenty-one years ago, is of excellent 
shape and colour, the broad petals being of a 
somewhat deeper shade of colour towards their 
points. The front of the lip is covered with 
violet-purple, the side lobes of the throat 
being almost white, which makes a pleasing 
contrast to the deep-rose tinted petals A 
flower of this variety, now very scarce, has 
been kindly sent by H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, 
-Stamford Hill. In the same collection, from 
a small plant flowering for the first time, has 
appeared a distinct form of Odontoglossum 
Lambeauianum obtained by crossing O. 
Rolfea? with O. crispum Mundyanum, the latter 
parent a well-known blotched variety. The 
result is a flower almost entirely covered with 
small reddish-brown spots, the tips of the 
segments being suffused with rose. 
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Anguloa Cliftonii. — This remarkable species 
was first exhibited in England on January 
25th, igio, when it received a First-class 
Certificate. It was described as having 
lemon-yellow flow^ers, with some dark colour 
at the base of the petals, and the hp tinged 
with cinnamon. In the Orchid collection of 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., a distinct variety of this 
species has recently appeared. The plant 
has produced, on a single bulb, four flowers, 
one of which is sent by Mr. Thurgood. It 
reminds one at first sight of a light coloured 
form of Anguloa Clowesii, but the different 
formation of the lip clearly proves it to be 
A. Cliftonii. There is only the faintest 
suspicion of purple colour on the petals, and 
the lip has only a trace of cinnamon on the 
inner parts of the lateral lobes. The column, 
however, still retains some of the purple 
spotting, but even this is greatly reduced in 
intensity. 
Dendrobium crumenatum. ■ — The Gar- 
ih'ncr's Chronicle for June 17th contains, in an 
;irticle on a Botanical Expedition to Lower 
Siam, the following very interesting para- 
graph : — 
On some of the trees we found huge plants 
of Vanda gigantea in full bloom. The plant 
attains quite a large size in this northern 
Siamese region. On some trees, too, Aerides 
odoratum was abundant, and the snowy, 
fragrant Pigeon Orchid (Dendrobium crumen- 
atum), common here as everywhere in the 
Malay region, dotted the trees with a white 
sheet of blossoms on its flowering day. As 
is well known, this beautiful plant has the 
peculiarity of flowering simultaneoush' over a 
whole area, so that, on its flowering day — for 
the flowers fall at night — the trees on which 
it grows often in great abundance, appear 
suddenly in the morning covered with 
myriads of its white flowers. Those who 
have only seen it flowering in a hothouse have 
no idea of the exquisite beauty of a tree 
covered with it on its flowering day, which 
occurs about once in nine weeks. 
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Odontoglossums at Arddarroch. — A large 
number of the best varieties of Odontoglos- 
sum crispum have recently been in flower in 
this well-known collection, and are, this year, 
flowering better than ever. An interesting 
lot of flowers from these plants shows the 
wide range of variety. A crispum named 
lilacinum has flowers of almost a lilac tinge, 
but with a rather small, white lip, which is 
not unusual in rosy crispums. Another fine 
form is crispum xanthotes White's variety, a 
pure white flower with yellow spots on the 
sepals, column, and lip Flowers of O. 
ardentissimum Sybil and O. a. Chillingham 
variety each have the segments blotched and 
spotted with claret-purple, the latter variety 
having a very pretty lip. The wonderful 
variety of O. crispum known as Leonard 
Perfect has been self-fertilised, and the first 
seedling to bloom, consisting of two bulbs, 
has produced a flower with a remarkable 
resemblance to its parent. The size and 
shape, as may be expected from such a small 
plant, are slightly wanting, but the blotches 
