GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Odontoglossum mulus Holpordiantjm. A handsome addition to this already popular 

 genus, which is at the present day cultivated by many who give preference to the 

 now numerous cool species of Orchids before those that require a high temperature. 

 And not unreasonably so, as half the enjoyment is lost by the disagreeable hot moist 

 atmosphere that for a great portion of the year pervades the houses in which are located 

 the kinds from warm countries. 



An unusually fine variety. The ground-colour of the flowers whitish, with dark purple-brown blotches on the 

 sepals and petals. Lip pure white, with a very light ochre-coloured disk. There is a large pandurate transverse 

 purple spot before the basilar callus in the fore part of the disk, and a similar smaller spot on each side of the 

 middle part, and on the base there is on each side a radiating spot and some small dots and spots on the margins. 

 — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xviii., p. 616. 



Spihjea. bullata. This, we understand, is a Japanese species, of low growing habit, 

 flowered with Messrs. Eodger, McClelland, and Co., of Newry, which, if it does not 

 bloom too early to escape frost, will no doubt be a desirable plant. We mention this 

 as a matter of no small importance, for a kindred species from the same country, S. 

 [Iloteia) japonica, often has its flowers cut off on account of their opening before the 

 spring frosts are over. 



A dwarf shrub twelve to eighteen inches high ; branches erect, wiry, cylindric, densely clothed with reddish-brown 

 down. Leaves subsessile, half an inch long, quarter of an inch wide, coriaceous glabrous, dark green, and bullate 

 above, paler beneath, ovate oblong crenate, crenations glandular-serrate recurved ; nerves pinnate, very prominent 

 on the under surface. Flowers numerous, dark pink or claret-coloured, in much branched dense terminal corymbs. 

 Pedicels short, villose, bracteolata. Flower-tube about one-sixth of an inch diameter, villose, broadly cup-shaped. 

 Sepals suborbicular, with a gland-tipped apiculus, at first as long as or scarcely shorter than the petals. Petals 

 rosy-lilac, oblong-obtuse, shortly stalked, at first scarcely exceeding the sepals, but ultimately twice their length. 

 Stamens numerous, in two rows, free, red, glabrous. Disk thin and glandular. Ovaries five, distinct ; ovules 

 pendulous; styles glabrous thickened upwards, pinkish; stigmas capitellate. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xviii., 

 p. 680. 



Piial^enopsis speciosa. II. G. Heichenbacli, f. Somewhat resembling P. tetrasjns, 

 a very pretty plant, in general appearance, but yet, from a horticultural point of 

 view, sufficiently distinct to make it a desirable addition to the family of Moth Orchids. 

 The leaves are of a much paler shade of green. Like the well-known P. Liiddemanniana, 

 to which also it has a considerable likeness, there is much difference in the flowers 

 produced by individual plants. The ground-colour is white, nearly half the surface 

 being covered with bold markings of a reddish-purple shade, much darker in some of 

 the forms than in others. It is a very free-flowering species. 



