242 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AuGusT, 1922. 
making satisfactory progress. Included with the Leelias is a fine variety of 
tenebrosa and the beautiful L. purpurata Russelliana, which has just pro- 
duced a spike of three flowers. The Cattleyas include several elegant forms, 
and some seedlings from the late Mr. J. Gurney Fowler's collection, also 
five plants of a C. Triane from the late Mr. Chamberlain’s celebrated 
collection. Albino varieties are represented by several healthy plants, and 
a very pretty variety of C. Schrédere is of interest on account of coming 
from the collection of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence. Some of the more 
recently raised hybrids are included on the side staging, and attractive 
flowers are produced by Adula, Fabia alba and several Leeliocattleyas. 
Phaius hybridus is quite at home in the atmosphere of this house. 
As may be expected with anyone who cultivates Dendrobiums there are 
fine varieties to be seen of Apollo and Ainsworthii, also Cybele album, of 
which there are four fine plants. D. Gibsonii, from Tenasserim, D. 
primulinum, and D. Phalaenopsis are three species worthy of careful culti- 
vation, and it must be said that they succeed uncommonly well in the 
Bankholme collection. In completing these notes of a very promising and 
interesting collection we may mention several elegant Brassavola hybrids, 2 
grand plant of Cypripedium Rothschildianum from New Guinea, the 
attractive Oncidium McBeanianum, and a healthy specimen of Aérides 
odoratum. When making the compost for repotting the Cypripediums only 
the actual fibre from the loam is used, all the fine matter being shaken out 
previously. Mr. Hanchet finds this an excellent plan, for if at any time the 
plant is overwatered, there is but little danger of it remaining in a sodden 
condition for any prolonged period. 
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This was one of the discoveries of M. 
Linden, who found it on the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia in 1843. It 
appears to have first flowered in England at Syon House in August, 1846. 
The specific name refers to the halberd-shaped form of the labellum. 
Oe 
LAELIOCATTLEYA WAVRINII. 
ey first flowering of this plant in 1907 created a great deal of interest, 
for nothing like it had bgen previously seen. The plant, which 
appears to have been imported about the year 1904, was sold by M. I. 
Praet, of Mont St. Amand, near Ghent, to the Marquis de Wavrin, Chateau 
de Ronsele, Ghent, from whom the reproduced photograph was received. 
An examination of the pollen masses showed that the plant was a Lelio- 
cattleya, there being four large and four small masses. The Cattleya 
parent was no doubt C. Walkeriana, evidence of this being seen in the 
dwarf habit, the rather short broad leaves, and the small but characteristi¢ 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HASTILABIUM. 
