66 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Marcu, 1922. 
plant with fifteen flowers and buds that was exhibited by Mr. W. R. Fasey, 
at the Royal Horticultural Society, Jan. 17th, 1922, when it received an 
Award of Merit. 
La&.ia ANCEPS Dawsoni.—The January issue of the Orchid Review 
contains an article on Lelia anceps and its varieties. With regard to L. 
; d 
this notable variety 
ough tl eltered on all sides by 
t is, however, remarkable for its extremes of temperature, 
being very warm during the day and very cold at night. Not more than 
sixty plants were discovered. I knew Tucker well before he went out 
collecting, and when the above plants arrived in this country I well remem- 
ber one of the first being sold to Thomas Dawson, Esq., of Meadow Bank, 
Glasgow, where it flowered in the early part of 1868. Later on in the same 
year the first plant of Odontoglossum Andersonianum was seen in flower, 
having appeared in an importation received by Messrs. Low & Co. It was 
named after Mr. James Anderson, then gardener to Mr. T. Dawson.— 
Harry A. BARNARD. 
mountains, 
ANOMALOUS CyPRIPEDIUMS.—Intensive cultivation often gives rise to an 
abnormal inflorescence, which not unfrequently shows an increase in the 
number of the flowers as well as in their size. More rarely, the composition 
of the flower itself becomes altered by the addition of extra segments. 
Among a number of flowers of Cypripedium insigne Harefield Hall which 
Mr. R. F. Felton, of Hanover Square, London, had obtained for 
-decorative purposes, were two that immediately attracted his attention. One 
of these spikes carried two flowers, and attached near the back of the upper 
“one was a green leaf seven inches in length, and at the lower one another 
leaf three inches in length. Phyllody. of the bracts had occurred. The 
-green leaves that had thus taken the place of the usual bracts were regarded 
by Mr. Felton as having a distinctly artistic appearance, and it is his 
opinion that if this condition could be made permanent, a ae decorate 
value would be imparted to Cypripediums. 
g of a new section of the genus. 
Like the first mentioned abnormality, these flowers were also the giant 
‘variety of C. insigne, known as Harefield Hall. : 2 
