134 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1922. 
and lip. C. Huttonii is also a native of Sumatra, where it was found by 
Curtis. Micholitz also found it in Central Sumatra when collecting for 
Messrs. Sanders. In its broad leaves and general appearance it is most 
allied to C. Devonianum. 
Sir Joseph Hooker, in describing this plant, remarked that it does not 
much resemble a Cymbidium. Subsequent failures in attempting to 
hybridise it with other members of the genus support this statement. A 
fine example of C. Huttonii is figured in the Orchid World, vol. v., p. 222, 
from a well-cultivated plant in the collection of Geo. Hamilton-Smith, Esq., 
Leigh Woods, Bristol. This plant, one of about twenty imported in August, 
1913, had been grown by Mr. A. Coningsby, who, in writing to us last 
month from his present address at Southgate, says: ‘I think C. Huttonii 
has very little claim to be included under Cymbidium. There were several) 
plants in Mr. Hamilton-Smith’s collection, and I tried many times to cross 
them with various Cymbidiums, both species and hybrids, but always with 
the same result—failure. Not one of the flowers upon which the C. 
Huttonii pollen was used ever attempted to make a pod; they simply 
withered and fell off. I had just the same result when the pollen of other 
Cymbidiums was placed upon C. Huttonii, although I got pods easily 
enough when the flowers were self-fertilised.” 
Our illustration, from a photograph by Mr. G. I’Anson, shows the plant 
which received a First-class Certificate at the Royal Horticultural Society, 
July 4th, 1905, when exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. Two 
varieties were then shown, one lighter than the other, the longest raceme 
bearing fifteen flowers. 
ONcIDIUM CAVENDISHIANUM.—This elegant species was discovered by 
Mr. G. Ure Skinner in the neighbourhood of the city of Guatemala, and 
was one of the first Orchids sent by him to England. 
cleagagianics 
ADA AURANTIACA.—The brilliant orange-coloured flowers of this species 
are always of interest, for they are collected in a close raceme ‘enveloped in 
thin cucullate membraneous bracts, and never open except at their point. 
Linden referred it to Brassia, but Lindley remarked that ‘‘it differs frome 
this in some important particulars :—The lamella of the lip are confluent 
and membranous; the lip is parallel with the column and solidly united to 
the base of it; the column is twice as long as in other Brassias, and thin- 
edged at the base; the caudicle is short and obovate, while the gland is: 
circular. For this reason I place it at the end of the glumaceous Brassias.” 
Ada aurantiaca was discovered by the Belgian collector Schlim, about the year. 
1851-2; on the eastern Cordillera of Colombia between Ocana and Pamplona, 
at 8,500 ft. elevation. A variety is known with light orange-yellow flowers+ 
