THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
[July, *921. 
wings bore blackish glands. The future flowering of these plants will be a 
matter of much interest. The typical form of 0 . Papilio has always been 
peculiarly attractive. In the early days of its history, Dr. Lindley stated : 
“The name has doubtless been suggested by the brilliant colours of the 
flower, its singular form, which may be easily likened to the wings, body, 
antennae, and tongue of a butterfly, and its fluttering motion when hanging 
from its stalk, at the extremity of the weak, elastic, jointed scape.” 
Dendrobium Dalhousieanum Luteum. —This variety is rendered dis¬ 
tinct by its clear straw-yellow colour, although the two mauve-purple 
-blotches on the lip are still in evidence. Major-General E. S. Berkeley, 
who had collected about two thousand plants of this species and flowered 
them all in India, considered this plant to be the only distinct variety 
worthy of being brought to England. Although found some thirty years 
ago, it was not until Lieut.-Col. Sir George Holford exhibited it at the 
International Show of 1912, that it received a First-class Certificate. At 
this year’s Chelsea Show, well-flowered specimens were included in Sir 
Jeremiah Colman’s Gold Medal Group. The sepals and petals of the 
variety luteum are said to be of thicker texture than those of the normal 
type* _ 
Nomenclature. —The creating of new names that denote the parent¬ 
age of hybrids has oftentimes much in its favour, as for example, 
Odontoglossum crispodinei (crispum X Coradinei), but there are occasions 
when careless union of the parental names make confusion worse confounded. 
At the recent Chelsea show a very fine variety of Odontoglossum crispo- 
Solon caused more than one member of the Orchid Committee to seriously 
confuse it with Odontoglossum crispum solum. Now solum is a well-known 
Latin adjective signifying “ alone,” or “ only,” and in this case is used to 
describe a very distinct variety—the only one of its kind. But Solon was 
an Athenian legislator whose name is used for the hybrid between O. 
Adrianas and O. ardentissimum. The result is that O. crispo-Solon is half 
Latin and half Greek ; it commences with a small letter and has a capital one 
in the middle; it is most likely to be confused with O. crispum solum ; 
and finally, it is not in accordance with the rules of Horticultural Nomen¬ 
clature, which aim at fixity of names by “avoiding or discouraging the 
employment of forms or names which are liable to produce errors or 
runcertainties, or to bring about confusion.” Although the exhibitors 
Messrs. J. & A. McBean, were not in this case responsible for the name, 
they certainly staged one of the finest Orchids in the Show. The plant was 
awarded a First-class Certificate and a Silver Lindley Medal for “Good 
and Scientific Cultivation.” 
