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long, and carry from five to ten flowers. These are 3 to 4 inches 
across ; sepals white, petals white but narrower than the sepals ; 
lip three lobed, side lobes crisped at the margin, striped with 
chocolate-red and blotched with yellow, centre lobe slightly 
reflexed, with large lemon-yellow blotch and several raised fringes. 
The home of Coelogyne Sanderiana is not generally known, but 
the plants should be grown in an East Indian house. Fig. 9 
(see page 59) represents it.—C. Iv. 
Odontoglossum guttatum. 
Odontoglossum guttatum is fully described in the <l Kew 
Bulletin ’ for May and June. We gather that the species was 
sent to Kew for determination by G. R. le Doux, Esq., of 
Langton House, East Molesey, in March of the present year, 
with the information that it is a native of Ocana, whence it was 
imported as O. blandum, Rchb. /., in 1886. It is allied to 
O. odoratum, Lindl., but differs in the shape of the column wings 
and crests, also in colour. In its fimbriate column wings it recalls 
somewhat 0. praestans, Rchb ./.and 1 Varscew, and 0. crocidipterum, 
Rchb. f., which, however, differ greatly in other characters. The 
flowers are light yellow in colour, irregularly blotched with 
chocolate, the spots being almost suffused on the upper halves 
of the sepals, and elongated into three narrow lines at the base of 
the petals. The lip is bright yellow on the reflexed side lobes, 
with a few small reddish-brown spots, the calli and disc nearly 
white, the front part of the lip chocolate and a few paler spots 
and lines on the erect sides of the unguis. The column is whitish 
yellow, with a few reddish-brown spots on the sides, face, and 
wings. The plant has since been presented to Kew. 
Cypripedium Curtisi. 
It is now ten years ago since Messrs. Veitch & Sons intro¬ 
duced this fine Gypripedium from Sumatra through their collector 
whose name it bears. It has become a very popular plant with 
Orchid growers, and there are few collections which do not con¬ 
tain specimens of it. The plants may be grown readily in the 
East Indian house, very small pieces producing flowers. The 
leaves are about 6 inches long, mottled with dark and light 
green. The flowers are borne singly on scapes 6 to 9 inches high ; 
the upper sepal is broad and acuminate, dark green with a whitish 
margin tinged with purple, the veins are darker purple ; the lower 
sepal is very small. The petals are green and purplish white, 
thickly spotted with several shades of purple ; the margins are 
fringed with short dark hairs, and the ends of the petals are 
recurved. The lip is large, dull purple, spotted and veined with 
deep purple. Being easily grown under ordinary care and treat¬ 
ment, this Cypriped is often seen in exhibits of Orchids. Several 
good plants were shown by Messrs. Sander & Co. of St. Albans at 
the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on July 12th, and 
plants are flowering in the warm Orchid house at Kew.—C. K. 
Anguloas. 
The genus An^uloa was brought before the scientific and 
horticultural world about 1840-1844, chiefly through the enterprise 
of several gentlemen who had at that date become famous for 
their Orchid collections. These gentlemen defrayed the expense 
of a collector, M. Linden, who brought home several fine Orchids 
from South America, among them being Anguloa Glowesi and 
A. Ruckeri. 
As a rule the Anguloas are robust growing plants, and will 
succeed in a cool house during the greater part of the yea'-. 
During the winter when at rest they should be kept dry at the 
coolest end of the intermediate house, being moved to the coolest 
house about May or June, when they come into flower. The 
plants should be potted if necessary as soon as growth com¬ 
mences. They require plenty of moisture when growing, and a 
mixture of very fibrous peat and loam suits them provided the 
pots are well drained. 
A. Clowesi is a very strong grower. It was collected by 
Linden in Colombia in 1842, and flowered in 1844 for the first 
time in Europe, in the collection of the Rev. J. Clowes, Broughton 
Hall, Manchester. The sepals and petals are bright yellow ; the 
lip is whitish and tinged with orange, and so balanced that it 
swings backward and forward with every movement of the flower. 
A. eburnea is a splendid addition to the genus ; it has large 
white waxy flowers, and the lip is spotted with pink ; it is very 
rarely seen. 
A. Ruckeri was introduced from Colombia by M. Linden in 
1845 ; the flowers are tawny yellow, thickly spotted with crimson ; 
the lip wholly crimson. 
A. uniflora has flowers that are almost pure white, in some 
varieties shaded and spotted more or less with pink. It is readily 
obtained, and easily grown. 
There are several other species and varieties of Angulcas, but 
those mentioned are the best of the genus. The deep blood 
coloured variety of Ruckeri (A. Ruckeri sanguinea), which is still 
very rare, might, however, be included. Anguloas should flower in 
June or July. Examples of A. Ruckeri and A. uniflora are now 
blooming well in the cool Orchid house at Kew.—C. K. 
Calopogon pulciiellus. 
Greenhouse and hardy Orchids are not so abundant that we 
can look on the scarcity of so old a plant as Calopogon pulchellus 
without surprise. It might have been expected that it would long 
since have received wide attention, but it is little known, and until 
Mr. Ware exhibited it at the Drill Hall on July 12th no one 
appears to have made an attempt to bring it into prominence. Its 
FIG. 7.—CALOPOGON PULCHELLUS. 
attractiveness is unquestioned. When well grown it is about 
14 foot high, bearing three, four, and five flowers on a stem. They 
are about an inch across, and though not large they are eminently 
pleasing in appearance and bright in colour Paxton describes 
them as purple, but this is inaccurate ; they are rather of a bright 
rosy mauve hue, and are borne on slender stems. Though usually 
grown (where cultivated at all) in a greenhouse, Mr. Ware says 
that the plant is perfectly hardy. He finds that it is very easily 
growD, requiring a cool shady spot in moist soil. The engraving 
(fig. 7) represents it. 
Odontoglossum auriculatum. 
A pretty little species closely allied to O. Lindleyanum, 
Rchb. /., but differing in having a hastately trilobed lip, the disc 
of which is light purple instead of brown. In other respects it 
is much like the species just named. The sepals and petals are 
