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China, and sent to Messrs. Sander and Sons who 
exhibited it at the Royal Horticultural Society 
in 1904, when it gained a First-class Certifi- 
cate. Flowers ivory-white tinged with rose, 
the lip heavily marked with purple. 
C. pendulum. — A very old species near to \ 
C. aloifolium. Leaves hard and thick. Racemes 
drooping, the yellowish flowers marked with 
claret-colour, that shade being very pronounced ' 
in the variety atropurpureum. Himalaya. j 
C. Sanderi. — A new and handsome plant | 
from Annam, which gained a First-class Cer- 
tificate at the Royal Horticultural Society on 
February 14th of this year, when shown by 
Messrs. Sander. Leaves longand narrow. Erect 
flower-spikes bearing 3 to 7 flowers of 3I- 
inches across ; colour white, slightly tinged 
with pink and bearing a few small purple spots 
at the base of the petals. Lip broad and almost j 
equally three-lobed, the side-lobes folded to- [ 
wards the column, and white beautifully spotted | 
with rosy-purple over the greater part of the } 
surface. | 
C. Tracyanum. — One of the largest and 
strongest of the genus, producing very stout j 
racemes of 20 or more flowers, each flower 5 
inches across. Sepals and petals honey-yellow, ! 
striped with reddish linesshading to chocolate- j 
brown. Lip downy ; white or pale yellow, 
marked with purple. 
C. tigrhium. — A very distinct dwarf species 
with broader leaves than are usual, and grace- 
ful sprays of 3 to 5 flowers about 2 inches 
across. Sepals and petals greenish, marked with 
red at the base. Lip white, streaked with 
purplish-brown. Burmah. 
C. Wilsoni. — Recently imported by Messrs. 
Veitch from Yunnan, and very like a dwarf 
form of C. gigauteum. 
The following hybrids are 
Hybrids. known in gardens, many of 
them having ivory-white or 
yellowish flowers with various brown or purple 
markings : — C. x Ballianum {eburneum x Mas- 
tersii ; C. x eburneo-Loivianum [eburneum x 
Lowianum) , and the reverse cross ; C. x T An- 
soni [Lowianutn x Tracyanu?n) ; C. x Lowio- 
grandijlorum [Lowianum x grandiflorum) ; C. x 
Lowio-Mastersii [Lowianum x Master sit) ; C. x 
Lowgrinum [Lowianum x tigrinum) ; C. x Man- I 
///;// [giganteum x Mastersii) ; C. x Maronii I 
[grandiflorum x Mastersii') ; C. x Wiganianum 
[eburneum x Tracyanum) ; C. x Winnianum 
[giganteum x eburneum) . 
C. flabellatum and C. Hum- 
Other Species, b/otii are plants from Mada- 
gascar, the first not in culti- 
vation, the second a fine species with green 
and black flowers, also known as C. Loise- 
Chauvieri. C. r/iodoc/ii/um, also from Mada- 
gascar, a very handsome kind with green sepals 
and petals, the latter having blackish spots ; 
dark rose labellum, with a yellow crest and 
dark spots in the middle. A fine coloured plate 
of this rare plant was given in Flora and 
Sylva, Vol. n., p. 40. Most of the follow- 
ing species are either well known in gardens 
or have been recorded : — C. cana/icu/atum, C. 
c/i/orant/ium, and C. madidum (all Australian) ; 
C. cyperifoHum (Himalaya). This last has an 
erect flower-spike and is quite different from 
C. longifolium^ which usually appears as C. 
cyperifoliu?fi in gardens. C. Huttonii is a very 
pretty and rare Javan species. C. ensifolium^ 
C. lane if 0 Hum, C. Munronianum., and C. sinense, 
— the last-named Chinese species being an old 
plant in gardens. C. cochleare [Cyperorchis 
cochlearis) an olive-green and brown Himal- 
ayan species; C. Mackinnoni (India), and C. 
virescens (Japan), bearing solitary flowers; and 
C. ?iipponicum (Japan) and C. macror/iizum 
(Himalayas) both interesting, leafless botanical 
species, with scaly rhizomes and said to be para- 
sites, neither of which are in cultivation. 
JAMES O'BRIEN. 
Harrow-on-the-Hill. 
Brachyglottis repanda. — Writing on this 
fine shrub in April last I stated that, probably 
nothing had been lost by its failure to bloom. 
I must now qualify that statement, for, at the 
late show of the Devon Daffodil Society at 
Plymouth, the Rev. A. T. Boscawen, of Lud- 
gvan Rectory, exhibited a large flower-panicle, 
of about a footthrough which had a very grace- 
ful appearance, the tiny blossoms in countless 
numbers reminding one somewhat of Crambe 
cordifolia. This flower-head was not cut from 
the large plant that I mentioned, this having 
been blown down shortly after I saw it last Nov- 
ember, but from a smaller plant. Mr. Boscawen 
tells me that the Brachyglottis is excellent for 
planting beneath trees. S. W. Fitzherbert. 
