THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
[August, 
appreciated, and in them can *be studied some of the details of the 
•Odontoglossums that flowered before the days of artificial hybrids. Some 
of the largest of these photographs measure 14 by 17 inches. 
The representation of Odontoglossum crispum lilacinum, dated March 
8th, 1892, is of special interest as being the plant on which an article was 
written in the Orchid World, 1915, p. 77, by Mr. de Barri Crawshay, who 
there stated that all the plants then known as O. crispum purpurascens were, 
in fact, pieces of the original O. crispum lilacinum, purchased by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, March 4th, 1892. As the flower depicted in this painting agrees 
with that of O. crispum purpurascens, and is dated just four days after Six 
Trevor purchased O. crispum lilacinum, additional evidence has thus been 
brought to light in support of Mr. Crawshay’s statement. 
Two large paintings by Macfarlane, dated 1879, and measuring 18 by 23 
inches, depict luxuriant plants of Pescatorea Rackhouseana and Bollea 
Lawrenceana. Other similarly large records include Cattleya Warscewiczii 
var. Regina, with a five-flowered spike, dated 1883, and C. gutta lilacina, 
showing a three-leaved bulb and a many flowered spike. It is dated 1881, 
and in the corner is a small sketch of the plant with its ten slender bulbs of 
varying height. The painting of C. intricata var. Rossii shows the precise 
result that in 1897 proved the parentage of the natural hybrid between C. 
intermedia and C. Leopoldii. A point worthy of repetition is witnessed in 
the coloured drawing of C. Mossise splendidissima, which contains a 
-diagram denoting that when the flower is spread out it has a width of 
-9I inches. 
With Calanthes there is often a difficulty in distinguishing the many 
hybrids, and for that reason the large sheet depicting eleven varieties that 
flowered in 1887 is of value; in four of these the whole spike is drawn. 
Four smaller paintings, dated 1891, are of different Calanthes raised by the 
late Mr. N. C. Cookson. 
Of the remarkable Renanthera Lowii there are three paintings, the 
largest no less than 3ft. bin. in length, including a full spike, and showing 
three basal flowers that differ in formation and coloration, and are also 
widely separated from the majority of the flowers on the longer portion of 
the spike. Among Epidendrums are excellent reproductions of E. Wallisii, 
-dated 1879, constituting one of the earliest records of this rare species; E. 
Endresii, dated 1896, a year before it received a Botanical Certificate at the 
R.H.S.; and E. elegantulum, a hybrid between the above two species. All 
these drawings show leafy stems, roots, and flower spike. One other large 
painting is of the scarce E. porphyreum, with a panicle of about 90 orange- 
coloured flowers. Zygopetalum Perrenoudii and Z. leucochilum are two 
-elegant hybrids beautifully represented, as also is the giant-flowered 
Bulbophyllum grandiflorum. 
