be te) THE ORCHID REVIEW. {Juty-AuGuST, 1920: 
form. Ofthe hybrids we may mention a brilliant O. armainvillierense, and 
the white var. xanthotes, with clear yellow disc to the lip, O. Soramis 
(crispum X Phoebe), showing well the cirrhosum ancestry, O. illustrissimum, 
a finely blotched form, an excellént O. Titania, a spray of O. Clytie, and 
some unnamed ones, among which we note a pretty light purple with 
darker mottling, aud a dark brown hybrid of the mirificum type. A fine 
example of O. Pescatorei, with flowers of Odontioda rosefieldiensis, O. 
Charlesworthii, and Zygopetalum crinitum complete the series. They are 
sent as examples of plants in bloom in an amateur’s modest little house, and 
Mr. Short is to be congratulated on the result. 
| =% | NEW ORCHIDS. i [33 | 
N a forty-seventh Decade of New Orchids in the Kew Bulletin the 
majority are South African, described from dried specimens, but there 
are two species of Phalenopsis from garden plants, both belonging to the 
section Stauroglottis. : 
PHALENOPSIS LATISEPOLA, Ro_Fe.—An ally of P. denticulata, Rchb. f., 
which flowered in the collection of M. Roger Liouville, of Maure, Ille-et- 
Villaine, France, in April, 1914, when it was sent to Kew through Sir F. W. 
Moore, Glasnevin. The flowers are said to be violet-scented, and have 
greenish-yellow sepals and petals with rows of red-brown dots, and the 
white lip has a purple apex.—Kew Bull., 1920, p. 130. 
PHAL@NopsiIs MicHo.irzit, Rolfe.—An ally of P. tetraspis, Rchb. f., 
which was introduced by Messrs Sander through their collector, W. 
Micholitz, in 1889, though not previously described. The flowers are 
cream white, with numerous long hairs on the front lobe of the lip—Kew 
Buil., 1920, p. 130. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM EXIMIUM XANTHOTES: A CURIOUS GROWTH.—When 
recording a curious growth ona plant received from Messrs. Charlesworth 
(O.R., xxvi. p. 231), it was remarked; ‘ The future behaviour of the plant 
will be watched with interest.” The succeeding growth showed precisely 
the same conspicuous, semi-transparant margin to the leaves, and now it 
has produced three flowers showing another kind of abnormality. The 
inner halves of the lateral sepals are coloured like the crest of the lip, and 
there is also a yellow, slightly thickened line at the base of each petal. The 
dorsal sepal is wholly white, and the usual yellow spots are confined to 
the lip, and the inner halves of the lateral sepals. It would now be 
interesting to know if the original plant, had similar flowers.—R.A.R. 
