40 THE ORCHID REVIEW.  [Mar.-Aprit, 120. 
remarks that although he watched the plants for months, he never saw a 
flower fully open ; the winds seem to cut them and turn them brown before 
they are fully out. A flower, however, that was carefully expanded before - 
drying, has the peculiarity that the lip has become petal-like, having lost 
the prominent crest-like appendages of the normal form, and from its light 
yellow colour, prominently reticulated with dark green, it strongly recalls 
i apce another striking Andine genus.—R. A. ROLFE. 
ees | | ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
IVE distinct forms of the handsome Cymbidium insigne are sent by 
Messrs. Sanders, St. Albans, which enable one to realise the amount 
of variation there is in the species. The typical form has blush pink sepals 
and petals, with copious crimson spotting on the lip. Two others are 
appreciably lighter in shade, one of them having particularly broad 
segments, while in the others the colour is increased to rose, with darker 
veins. The introduction of this beautiful species has given a great impetus 
to the hybridising of Cymbidiums, and will doubtless lead to further 
developments, particularly with C. eburneum and its derivatives. 
A flower of a pretty form of Cymbidium Diana is sent from the 
collection of G. Hamilton Smith, Esq., Northside, Leigh .Woods,- Bristol, 
by Mr. W. E. Walker, together with its two parents, C. Pauwelsii and C. 
Veitchii var. concolor. The last-named parent has uniformly light yellow 
flowers, thus retaining the character of the original C. Lowianum var. 
concolor, but in the hybrid the sepals and petals are straw-coloured with 
some light red lines, in which respect, as also in the amount of crimson on 
the lip, it most resembles the other parent. It would be interesting to cross 
C. Veitchii var. concolor with some form in which the crimson is entirely 
wanting. A flower is also sent of Cymbidium Atlas (Cravenianum X Doris), 
a new cross which has just flowered. The sepals and petals are yellowish 
green, closely lined with brown, and there are numerous crimson markings 
on the lip. It shows charactersof both C. Lowianum and C. insigne, ane 
can be judged better when the plant becomes stronger. - 
Three beautiful Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of H. S. 
oodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney, by Mr. G. E. Day. O. Lambeauianum 
ar. Harry Goodson has the sepals and petals closely spotted with claret on 
a light ground, and the lip light yellow with very few red-brown dots. O. 
L. var. G. E. Day has a white ground with light purple spots on the lower 
halves of the segments. .The third, of which we are a little uncertain about 
the parentage, is copiously blotched with claret on a white ground, the 
spots on the petals being arranged in zones. 
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