2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | JANUARY, 1923. 
in obtaining ripe seed. Apart from Dendrobium Leeanum, the natural 
hybrid between Phalznopsis and superbiens, no other hybrid of D. 
Phalznopsis has been recorded. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM SOLUM.—The curious style of blotching 
seen in this remarkable variety does not appear to be capable of being 
reproduced by the hybridists. Several crosses have been effected in the 
Gatton Park collection, and in more than a dozen plants that have flowered, 
representing more than one distinct cross, not a single example inherits its 
well-known richly-coloured lip. 
ORCHIDACEZ QU#DAM AMERICANZ.—Under this title Prof. Oakes 
Ames has compiled, as No. 1 of Schedule Orchidiane, a descriptive list of 
forty-five Orchids, the prefatory note stating that recent studies of tropical 
American Orchids have brought to light species which seem to be 
undescribed or which have been inadequately described. The descriptions 
have been prepared from herbarium material, and the arrangement of the 
genera follows the sequence proposed in Engler and Prantl’s ‘“ Die 
Pflanzenfamilien.” The forty-five species belong to the following genera: 
Epidendrum, 18; Stelis, 13; Pleurothallis, 7; Physosiphon, 2; Gomphicis, 
2; Elleanthus, 2; and Lepanthes, 1. Epidendrum pruinosum was 
originally published with a most inadequate description and has remained 
obscure. Although the type specimen was preserved by Richard 
together with a colour sketch, no trace of it has been discovered in 
the Richard Herbarium at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. But Prof. 
Oakes Ames, when recently examining the Reichenbachian Herbarium 
at Vienna, found both the original specimen and the coloured drawing. 
With the aid of this material it has been possible to identify a 
Mexican specimen distributed many years ago by C. A. Purpus under 
the number 3616. 
ORCHID COLLECTION FOR DisposaL.—Offers are required for a fine 
collection of Orchids, numbering about a thousand plants, which certain 
Executors have for disposal. Particulars of same can be obtained through 
the Editor of the Orchid Review. 
MAXILLARIA VARIABILIS.—A native of Mexico that was in cultivation 
in several European gardens in 1837 and perhaps earlier. It appears 
to have been imported by Messrs. Low & Co., through Henchmann. 
It is one of the scandent Maxillarias, and produces flowers an inch 
across the lateral sepals, variable in sania though generally deep 
sanguineous purple. : 
