The Woodlands orchids described and illuswith stories of orchid collecting . purplish markings. Pescatorei grandiflonm.—Immense. The lip has a yellowdash at base. Pescatorei splendens.—Sepals and petals white ; lip hand-somely spotted with purple. Pescatorei violaceum.—The whole flower is tinted with violet. Crispum purpureum shows a similar peculiarity, but the tint is purple. Crispum Dayanum.—Tht sepals have a large irregularpatch of darkest mauve in the centre, the petals a spot or twoof the same colour and a streak at the base. The lip is white. Old-fashioned people have not yet learned to
The Woodlands orchids described and illuswith stories of orchid collecting . purplish markings. Pescatorei grandiflonm.—Immense. The lip has a yellowdash at base. Pescatorei splendens.—Sepals and petals white ; lip hand-somely spotted with purple. Pescatorei violaceum.—The whole flower is tinted with violet. Crispum purpureum shows a similar peculiarity, but the tint is purple. Crispum Dayanum.—Tht sepals have a large irregularpatch of darkest mauve in the centre, the petals a spot or twoof the same colour and a streak at the base. The lip is white. Old-fashioned people have not yet learned to call Odonto-glossum vexillarium a Miltonia. To avoid confusion I willgive it no generic name at all. It should be observed, how-ever, that in our collection these plants are grown cool allthe year round. Among the most important are :— Vexillaria Cohhiana.—Pale rose with white lip. Vexillaria Measuresiana.—All white save the golden beard. Perhaps the handsomest of its rare class. Vexillaria rubella.—Deep rose. Valuable for its habit offlowering in mOM KATtiH t. , ALftO ODONTTOGLOSSUM, WOOOLANOS VA^/etY. CMKOUe* Si MAOrAKLAMe F«^ PniNTEO iM London STORY OF ODONTOGLOSSUM HARRYANUM Men supremely great in science have a quality beyondreason, such as we term instinct, enabling them to leapover the slow processes of demonstration, and announce alaw or a result unsuspected, which they cannot yet great Collector Benedict Roezl had this gift. Returningfrom the memorable expedition in which he discovered theMiltonia commonly called Odontoglossum vexillarium, heassured Mr. Sander that in those parts would be founda true Odontoglossum of unusual colouring. When askedthe grounds for his opinion he could only say he smelt , Sander was not unused to this expression, and he knewby experience that Roezls scientific nose might be was something in the air, in the lie of the country, inthe type of vegetation, which guided him, no
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