THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
[September, 192 
fertilization has taken place, the flowers close up, nnd by continued vertical 
rotation turn their heads towards the earth. Large seed-capsules were 
produced by every flower of this form. In many instances I have found as 
many as three supernumerary anthers on the top of the column.” 
Mr. Forbes’ first acquaintance with P. Blumei was with a specimen that 
had been under cultivation for about a year. It was for some time 
uncertain whether these peculiarities were not the result of cultivation, but 
he subsequently found numerous examples in a state of nature presenting 
the same appearance in every respect. 
“ Here, then,” concludes Mr. Forbes, “ we have an Orchid presenting 
every attraction to insects to pay the flower, at least, a first visit (when they 
would find no nectar), a large showy flower, with some perfume which is 
not disagreeable, a distinct nectary, an attractive labellum embracing the 
column, yet self-fertilized, and,rarely, if ever, anything else.” 
Cypripedium bellatulum.— During the past summer Messrs. Sanders 
received a small consignment of Cypripedium bellatulum, consisting of 
about 70 plants, and these after remaining on the staging for some four weeks, 
were roughly potted and placed in one of the warm houses, where after a 
period of about four more weeks, they are now all in full flower. One can 
only suggest that the plants were either well advanced in the bud state 
before being collected, or else the shock brought about by the long journey 
has caused them to bloom prematurely. 
Serapicamptis Forbesii — Under this name Col. M. J. Godfery, F.L.S., 
describes in th e Journal of Botany, 1921, p. 57, with an accompanying 
figure, a new hybrid Orchid between Serapias lingua and Anacamptis 
pyramidalis. The specimen was found on May 5th, 1920, at Bordighera, 
Italy, and was received from Col. A. M. Forbes, who wrote“ The 
Orchids growing near it in quantities were A. pyramidalis and S. lingua, 
with one small group of S. longipetala about 40 yards away. We have 
never seen a specimen of O. laxiflora in that neighbourhood (though there 
are some at the mouth of the Nervia), nor of O. papilionacea, which we have 
never found yet. My wife thoroughly searched the locality where she found 
it, but could not find any other specimen, but there was one O. tridentata 
on a lower olive-terrace.” Although there is but little direct evidence of A. 
pyramidalis. Col. M. J. Godfery refers in detail to the most salient features 
of that species, which include the long spur, the guiding-plates on the lip, 
and the saddle-shaped viscid disc. Other points that afford confirmatory 
evidence are also given. The colour of the lip is a peculiarly bright crimson, 
almost impossible to produce, reminding one of the brilliancy of the most 
vividly-coloured specimens of A. pyramidalis on the Riviera. 
