66 THE ORCHID REVIEW. |May-JUNE, 1920. 
purple and yellow Leliocattleyas, the fringed Brassocattleyas and Brasso- 
catlelias, and the rich scarlet colour of Sophronitis grandiflora which is 
carried on in the Sophrocattleyas and Sophrocatlelias are all evidence of the 
march of progress. It will be a long time before Orchid culture languishes 
through stagnation. 
In spite of the War and the continued abnormal conditions, the work of 
hybridising has been carried on, and in many establishments there are 
numerous batches of choice seedlings which are gradually progressing 
towards the flowering stage, and producing something of note at almost 
every horticultural meeting. 1t will be interesting to see what our next 
great meeting at Chelsea will be like, and with fine weather a brilliant 
Show may almost certainly be expected. 
THE British MarsH Orcuips.—At the meeting of the Linnean Society 
held on May 6th, Mr. Edward J. Bedford showed a series of thirty exquisite 
Water-colour drawings from British Marsh Orchids, with their numerous 
varieties and hybrids, further illustrated by 70 lantern slides from his 
photographs of the growing plants in sitw, with enlarged views of the lip, 
front and side view. Mr. T. A. Dymes also exhibited a series of seed 
capsules, remarking on the characters afforded by the fruit and seeds. As 
we have several correspondents who are interested in this group, and the 
plants will again be in bloom, we hope to receive examples of the rarer 
kinds, and especially the hybrids, with notes of any that grow intermixed. 
On looking over the plants on the Kew rockwork we note that one of the 
plants brought from West Drayton is throwing upa spike, also the two 
hybrids from O. foliosa and O. maculata, while that between O. latifolia and 
O. maculata, with O. latifolia Glasnevin var. and the Madeiran O. foliosa, 
all promise to make a fine show. The five plants of Orchicceloglossum 
‘mixtum are all producing spikes, and it is interesting to note that in this 
stage all are strongly spotted with brown, thus removing any element of 
doubt about Orchis maculata being one of the parents. The spots become 
more obscure by the time the flowers are expanded. Our own little collec- 
tion has eight plants in spike from different sources with clear green leaves, 
these in one case being very narrow, with several O. maculata from two 
localities and examples of O. foliosa. Some notes will appear later; our 
desire now is to call attention to the subject in time for the present season. 
MICROSTYLIS CALOPHYLLA, Rchb. f.—This pretty variegated-leaved 
Orchid has again appeared in cultivation, a Microstylis sent to Kew from 
the Singapore Botanic Garden, by Mr. I. H. Burkill, having just flowered, 
proving identical with the one described by Reichenbach over forty years 
ago (Gard. Chron., 1879, ii. p. 718). The author then remarked: “ This is 
