202 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



maroon and shining. Slipper striped with a pleasant pale 

 crimson, and closely speckled over with tiny points of a 

 darker shade. 



Mrs. W. A, Roehling (caudatum x leucorrhodum). — The 

 colouring is very delicate. Dorsal long, with a twisted crest ; 

 all stainless grass-green. Petals, which make one complete 

 revolution or twist, softly greenish in the middle, edged with 

 tender pale crimson, which also appears on the reverse ; the 

 lower base shows a brilliant decoration of tiny crimson bars 

 round the column. The pouched slipper, bright pink, has a 

 yellow lining, freckled with greenish dots. 



Reticulatum. — A species, known also as Boissierianum, 

 as curious as charming. The dorsal, of extraordinary 

 length and the same narrow width throughout, curls 

 over at the crest — bright pea-green, with slender lines 

 a shade darker. The petals have the same slender green 

 lines ; they are very thin, closely and evenly twisted in six 

 complete spirals. The shield of the column intensely dark 

 green. Slipper green, its lining snow-white, with purple 

 dots. 



Charles Richmond (bellatulum x barbatum superbum). — 

 The broad purplish dorsal has a whitish outline and a 

 greenish tinge in the centre ; its midrib is very strong 

 purple, as are the lines which intersect it. Petals purple, 

 darker at the base, dotted all over with maroon. Slipper 

 dark purplish-crimson. In colour, shape, and size alike this 

 hybrid is most impressive. 



Schofieldianum (bellatulum x hirsutissimum). — Very dis- 

 tinct. On a yellowish-white ground the dorsal has a pale 

 greenish centre, surrounded by purple, deepening at the 

 base ; all scored with branching lines of purple in dots. 

 The petals are broad and strong, yellowish -white, tinged 

 with purple, closely covered with maroon -purple dots. 

 Slipper purplish-crimson, greenish at the toe. 



