Cœlogyne barbata is, as we have just said, an evergreen plant, with short pseudobulbs and stout foliage, which grows about a foot long, and is of a lively green colour. The sepals and petals are white; the lip is sepia-brown, distinctly bearded with long fringes of coloured hairs, which give it a very distinct and quaint appearance, the fringe and beard contrasting very strongly with the white sepals and petals. It blooms during the autumn months, and continues flowering for a long time, if the flowers are kept free from damp. The plant should, therefore, be placed at the dry end of the house when in bloom, or be removed to a drier house than that in which it has been grown. We find it to grow well in a pot, if allowed perfect drainage, and planted in rough fibrous peat, allowing it a moderate supply of water during the growing season, but reducing the quantity when the plant is at rest.

There were three very interesting New Orchids exhibited by Sir T. Lawrence, Bart, M.P., at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on April 22nd last, all being remarkably distinct and pretty:—

Angræcum fastuosum.—The growth of this species is somewhat similar to that of A. articulatum, but the leaves are rounder and broader. The spikes are short and drooping, the flowers pure white, sweet-scented, with the lip larger than the petals; very distinct.

Odontoglossum cinnamomeum.—A new species, much resembling the true and rare O. odoratum. The sepals and petals are, however, broader, and the markings are much denser; the lip is yellow, with a large brownish crimson blotch in the centre, and the margin faintly spotted with the same colour, the whole surface being covered with fine downy hairs; very strongly scented.

Dendrobium Harveyanum.—This is a great surprise, being in the way of Dendrobium Brymerianum, but it has this peculiarity, that the petals are fringed in the same way as the lip, thus practically giving to the flower the appearance of three lips instead of one, although somewhat modified. The flowers are smaller than those of D. Brymerianum, but the plant resembles it in growth; and, indeed, it was imported with that species, so that possibly it may be a sport from it, which has become fixed. This plant has been named in honour of E. Harvey, Esq., Riversdale Road, Aigburth, Liverpool, in whose collection it first bloomed.—H. W.

Pl. 144. CATTLEYA LABIATA PERCIVALIANA.

CATTLEYA LABIATA PERCIVALIANA.
[[Plate 144].]
Native of Brazil.

Epiphytal. Stems erect, club-shaped, becoming furrowed in age, nearly a foot in height, monophyllous, evergreen. Leaves oblong-obtuse, leathery, dark green. Scape two-flowered, issuing from an oblong sheath. Flowers about five inches across, exceedingly handsome, the lip being very richly coloured; sepals linear-lanceolate, entire, the dorsal one recurved, of a soft pale magenta-rose; petals much larger and longer, broadly ovate-obtuse, the margin slightly wavy, scarcely denticulate, about two and a quarter inches broad, of the same pale rosy hue as the sepals, the mid-rib strongly developed towards the base; lip comparatively small, but intensely rich in colour, bluntly keeled at the back towards the base, plane for about half its length, with the margins closely folded over the column, rosy at the edge, strongly flushed with crimson and veined with golden yellow; the front lobe roundish-oblong, one and a half inch wide, its edges meeting over the throat, the margin being finely but neatly frilled, as also are the sides of the broadly-rounded deeply-emarginate apex; the colour in the expanded portion is a very rich velvety crimson in the central area, passing near the front edge to a band one-fourth of an inch wide of the pale rose of the petals, and continued narrower along the sides, the disk and the sides of the tubulose basal portion flushed with maroon-crimson, everywhere richly veined with deep yellow, giving the appearance of bronzy gold, and having two elevated golden ridges extending to the base. Column thick, clavate, white, with a blunt keel at the back, extending nearly to the apex, which has a small inflexed acute appendage lying between the two blunt lobes of the anther bed.

Cattleya labiata Percivaliana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.S., xvii., 796.