THE ORCHID WOULD. 
twenty-four inches between the pseudo-bulbs. 
In the only available house there was no 
room for such a giant to spread, so I 
kept the young growths tied in, gradually 
tightening the tie until I made them coil 
right round like a snake, and all the young 
roots were forced to enter the material in the 
basket ; hence they remained fresh and 
sound, and did not die away for two or 
three years. On three occasions this plant 
made two flowering shoots from one pseudo- 
bulb, but only one was allowed to develop. 
It is very difficult to increase, and there is but 
the original plant at Glasnevin. 
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The South African College, Cape Town. — 
By the will of the late Dr. Harry Bolus, 
F.L.S., of Kenilworth, Cape Town, this insti- 
tution will receive a sum of i^20,000, invested 
in Government stock at 4 per cent., on trust 
for the upkeep and extension of the herbarium 
and library. An additional sum of ^21,000 
is also left for the foundation of scholarships 
in connection with the same College. These 
amounts will later be considerably increased 
by a further sum of £/,ooo and the trans- 
ference of Dr. Bolus' landed property. 
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Catasetum Cliftonii. — At the Scientific 
Committee meeting of the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society on June 20th, Mr. James O'Brien 
showed plants under this name from the col- 
lections of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., and 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart, respectively. 
The flowers presented several minor points 
of difference in coloration and in the form of 
the lip, but both had a large callus upon the 
latter. Dr. Rendle, to whom they were 
referred, regarded them as forms of the very 
variable Catasetum Bungerothii, a Venezuelan 
species figured in the Botanical Magazine, 
tab. Cigg*^. 
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Malformed Cattleya. — At the above-men- 
tioned meeting Mr. O'Brien also exhibited a 
malformed Cattleya labiata which had 
flowered out of season, and upon which Dr. 
Rendle remarked : " The dorsal sepal has 
become broad and short, resembling more 
the lip and petals ; the lateral sepals have 
become shorter, resembling the lip in colour, 
but slightly smaller ; they are enclosed with 
the lip and convolute with each other ; the 
dorsal sepal with lip and petals formed a 
central rosette ; the lateral petals are shorter 
than usual, but otherwise normal. The 
column is reduced, forming a pillar-like struc- 
ture bearing an aborted anther." 
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Odontoglossum Lambeauianum. — The 
combination of O. Harryanum with either 
O. crispum or O. Pescatorei always makes a 
pleasing hybrid ; the former cross is known 
as O. crispo-Harryanum, the latter as O 
Rolfeae. By crossing O. Rolfeas with O. 
crispum we combine the characteristics of all 
three species, and the resulting hybrid, known 
as O. Lambeauianum, may be considered, in 
many ways, a plant of superior merit. If one 
or more of the parents is of the roseum type, 
the probabilities are that many of the hybrids 
will inherit this diffused pigment in varying 
degrees. Experience has, however, proved 
that, in Odbntoglossums especially, there is 
a natural tendency for this purple pigment to 
be formed into spots and blotches. It is also 
apparent that at certain places in the flower 
conditions e.xist which act as attractive 
centres for collecting the adjacent pigment 
into dense spots and blotches, the surround- 
ing area being left in an almost colourless 
condition. An example of this may be seen 
in the lower figure on page 228, the petals 
of this flower clearly showing the white area 
surrounding the dark spots. By deduction 
we may safely reason that it will be extremely 
difficult to produce Odontoglossums having 
flowers of a uniform or equally diffused 
colour. Mr. R. Brooman-White has recently 
flowered a deep-rosy tinted form of O. Lam- 
beauianum, and the spike of bloom which he 
sends gives further proof of the above 
remarks. The sepals and petals have 
numerous spots, more or less confluent, 
almost all of them being surrounded by a 
"'hite area varying in width proportionally to 
the diameter of the spots. 
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