May-JuNE, 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 95 
requirements, for he has been in jungles and forests in Burma, Lushai, the 
Chin Hills, and other Indian localities where Orchids abound, and we can 
well understand the pleasure he finds in the culture of such old personal 
friends.—R.A.R. 
PLEIONE PRriceI, Rolfe—A finely grown clump of this handsome 
Formosan Pleione was exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on March 
23rd last, by W. R. Price, Esq., Chepstow (gr. Mr. J. Adamson), and 
gained an Award of Merit. The species was discovered by Mr. Price 
during an expedition to Formosa, in company wlth H. J. Elwes, Esq., and 
flowered at Kew in the spring of 1914, a figure subsequently appearing in 
the Botanical Magazine (t. 8729). It is allied to P. formosana, Hayata, 
another Formosan species, though from the description it differs in the 
details of the lip and other characters. The flower is large, with rosy mauve 
sepals and petals, and a well-fringed white lip, which has yellow keels and a 
few brown markings. The flowers appear with the leaves, in which respect 
it resembles the Indian P. Hookeriana, another allied species —R.A.R. 
ODONTOGLOSsSUM OWENIANUM, Rolfe.—A_ spike of an_ interesting 
Odontoglossum has been sent for determination from the collection of Mrs. 
Bischoffsheim, Warren House, Stanmore (gr. Mr. Haddon), through Mr. 
James O’Brien... Its origin is not known, but it agrees with one that was 
introduced many years ago by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, and 
was described under the name of Odontoglossum Owenianum (Gard. Chron., 
1892, ii. p. 178), being dedicated to G. D. Owen, Esq., Selwood, Rotherham. 
t was never quite certain whether this plant was a good species or a 
natural hybrid, and it was remarked that in some respects the lip recalled 
O. Pescatorei, yet it was very distinct, and it was not clear what particular 
combination would produce it. ‘‘The white lip, yellowish white petals, 
with or without a chocolate blotch, and the sepals with the disc of the latter 
colour, give it a very distinctive appearance.” Messrs. Sander then informed 
us that they believed it came home with O. nevadense, but were not positive 
of the fact. In 1895, what was taken for a form of the same, was thought 
to have come from near the O. Harryanum district. Theone now sent has 
a deltoid-ovate white lip, with a zone of small purple dots at the base of the 
limb, the latter a greatly reduced edition of what occurs in O. nevadense, 
without its pandurate shape. The white lip recalls O. purum, except that it 
is much broader, and the column wings toothed, not reduced toa pair of 
cirrhi. ©. purum has been considered as a form of O. Wallisii, which, 
however, has a purple lip and toothed column wings. O. Owenianum 
recalls O. Wallisii in the shape and colour of the sepals, petals, and 
column, and as the latter comes from much the same district as O. 
