162 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JUNE, 1922. 
a passing engine fell on the tiffany blinds and quickly set them alight. The 
flames spread to other blinds and all the shading material on five houses 
was destroyed, while no less than a hundred squares of glass were badly 
cracked with the heat. 
Opurys SEEDLINGS.—In the neighbourhood of I’Uine, M. F. Denis has 
a little colony of Ophrys aranifera, some of which he fertilised with Ophrys 
Bertolonii. The seed was allowed to scatter itself in a natural way, and on 
April 15th fifty-one hybrids between these two species were seen in flower, 
as well as a number of plants that will come into bloom next season. 
Under such natural conditions a large measure of success has been obtained. 
M. Denis kindly sends a box containing twenty flower spikes from the above 
plants, and they comprise a very pretty and welcome addition to the genus. 
CaTASETUM TRULLA.—This species is figured in the Botanical Register, 
1841, t. 34, where Lindley remarks that he was only acquainted with it from 
a single specimen brought to him in September, 1840, by Mr. James 
Rigby, of the Stanhope Nursery, Old Brompton. It bore thirty flowers. 
“*They hada most singular appearance, but it must be confessed not a 
beautiful one, none of the colours being at all lively. The lip has much the 
form of a trowel, and is not at all hollowed out into a bag. It is merely 
concave like the bowl of a spoon.” At the meeting of the R.H.S., held 
April 25th, Dr. F. Bedford exhibited the Dovercourt variety of this species, 
to which an Award of Merit was granted. The spike carried eight flowers, 
of similar formation to that depicted in the above plate, but instead of the 
greenish colour therein shown this variety was of deep maroon purple when 
viewed by transmitted light. At a distance it looked almost black. 
CYMBIDIUMS FROM GLASGOW.—On page 136 of our last issue we noted 
an interesting series of Cymbidiums from Mr. James Whitton, V.M.H., 
Director of the Glasgow Parks and Botanic Gardens. Since then two 
other fine Cymbidiums have flowered. One is a variety of C. Alexanderi 
{eburneo-Lowianum x insigne), having the large blush white flower com- 
posed of white fleshy segments, and with the expansive labellum prettily 
marked with reddish crimson; the column is rose stained on the upper side 
and lightly spotted beneath. In the other flower, which is a variety of the 
op iad C. Glasgow (eburneo-Lowianum xX Alexanderi), the distinctive feature 
is the deep rose pink colour suffused through all the segments, while the 
yellow keels on the lip and a suffusion of the same colour on the base of the 
column present a pleasing contrast. Cymbiums are now very popular, and 
when cultivated to the fine condition shown in the above examples there is 
little fear of their popularity declining. 
