126 THE ORCHID REVIEW.  {fvutyv-Aucust, 1920. 
a considerable variation in colour. Both parents are represented. Of the 
green-leaved O. latifolia there are plants in and near the swamp. Of O. 
maculata there are several clumps, including one in a New Zealand 
Bulbine'la, and a nearly white variety iu a Sempervivum, both originally 
seedlings.. Of the white O. O’Kellyi, which we think represents a white 
O. maculata, there is a charming group of over a dozen plants. The 
handsome O. elata, long known as O. latifolia Glasnevin. var. (see p. 103), 
is represented by a very fine clump, bearing thirteen spikes of rich purple 
flowers, and near by are plants of O. folioso-maculata, from two different 
sources, both originating as accidental seedlings. ©. incarnata and var. 
pulchella have both bloomed, but the spikes were cut early in the hope of 
strengthening the plants. ,O. laxiflora is now over, but O. pyramidalis and 
Gymnadenia conopsea are good, and there are five spikes of the interesting 
Orchicceloglossum mixtum—originally described as Habenari-orchis viridi- 
maculata as long ago a 18g1—from the original source, and unmistakably 
intermediate in character. Other interesting plants are the South 
European Serapias lingua, Epipactis palustris and gigantea, Cypripedium 
Reginz, thriving well on a dry bank, and C. macranthum and its variety 
album, the two latter now over. Altogether a very interesting series. 
The writer has an interesting little group of over two dozen plants, 
including QO. incarnata and latifolia, O. maculata from two different 
localities, O. latifolio-maculata, and O. foliosa, and with a single exception 
well established in the corner of a rose bed, where they are kept well 
‘watered. The exception is a group of four O. incarnata, which are weaker 
than last year, and are not flowering, yet O. latifolia, with which it grows 
in a wet marsh at West Drayton, is as strong as ever. O. incarnata has 
died out before, and everything points to the necessity of ‘‘ wet feet,” as 
well as a suitable soil. R.A.R. 
ORCHIDS IN TRiInIDAD.—Mr. C. H. Lankester, of Cartago, Costa Rica, 
who is spending a yacation in the old country, and has brought a number of 
dried and living Orchids, had the pleasure of calling at Trinidad on the 
way home, and saw several interesting things. On visiting Mr. Eugene’ 
André, he found plants of the local Oncidium Lanéeanum in bloom, and a 
trimmed hedge of Murraya exotica (a member of the Orange family) freely 
planted with Vanda teres, formed a very interesting piece of gardening. On 
looking up Mr. Freeman, at the Botanical Gardens, he saw the local 
Schomburgkia in bloom, a fascinating Orchid, which looks exactly like the 
‘Costa Rican species. Trouble has been experienced with insects, and one 
plant showed evidence of the presence of a small hemipteron, a soft reddish 
yellow insect, astonishingly prolific and very wily, which in Costa Rica does 
a great deal of harm at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 feet. 
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