18 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Jan.-FEB, 1920. 
‘we cannot recall anything quite comparable with it. The species is found 
in Java, Borneo, and several other Malayan Islands, and has been known to 
science for about 170 years, having been described and figured by the Dutch 
botanist, Rumphius, as long ago as 1750, in the island of Amboina, under the 
name of Angrecum album majus. Howit successively became Epidendrum 
amabile, Cymbidium amabile, Phalenopsis amabilis, P. grandiflora, and 
ultimately P. Rimestadiana, has already been told, and reads something’ 
like a comedy. It appears to have first flowered in cultivation in September, 
1850, in the collection of J. H. Schréder, Esq., of Stratford Green, when it 
received a Silver Banksian Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Under suitable, Warm House, treatment it is one of the most beautiful 
‘Orchids in cultivation. We have seen an albino of the species, in which 
there are no traces of purple on the lip, and the scape is pure green, without 
any brown colour. 
CYMBIDIUMS FROM BrisToL.—A series of hybrid Cymbidiums has been 
sent from the collection of G. Hamilton Smith, Esq., Northside, Leigh 
Woods, Bristol, by Mr. W. E. Walker, which illustrates the improvements 
that are being effected by the use of the handsome Annam species, C. 
insigne, as a parent, and also the value of the hybrids as winter-blooming 
plants. C. Alexanderi (Veitchii x insigne), is represented by four beautiful 
flowers, one having blush-white sepals and petals, and the lip covered with 
the characteristic insigne crimson lines and spots. In McBean’s variety, 
the sepals and petals are nearly white, and_ the red, confluent dotting is 
confined to the front half of the lip. A still finer form is quite similar in 
the markings, but the flower is tinged with blush, and there is a light 
yellow tinge on the side lobes of the lip. The fourth is a richly-coloured 
example of the var. roseum, with rose-coloured sepals and petals, ani 
crimson markings on the front lobe of the lip and apex of the side lobes, the 
disc being unspotted. Forms of C. Gottianum (eburneum X insigne) and 
C. Schlegelii (insigne x Wiganianum) bear a general resemblance to each . 
other, being blush-pink, with copious crimson markings on the lip, though 
the latter is superior, both in shape and colour. C. Sybil (eburneum X ~ 
Pauwelsii) is a charming white, unspotted form, with light yellow keels, — 
and C. Castor var.aureum (Woodhamsianum insigne) has light yellow 
sepals and petals, with a flush of pink on the margins, and red spotting on 
the front of the lip. Lastly, we have C. Corona (Lowianum X Schlegelii), 
the green sepals and petals having a brownish suffusion up the centre, 
while the front of the lip has a zone of rich red-brown in front, and a 
central line, which characters recall C. Lowianum. Mr. Hamilton Smith © 
specialises in Cymbidiums, and has a fine collection, including many of the 
tare species. 
