FEBRUARY, 1923.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 43 
EXPORTING ORCHIDS FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA, 
By ARTHUR YATES, Sydney, Australia. 
2 [| eee a year ago I received from Messrs. Flory & Black, of Slough, 
England, a consignment of Orchids, among them being a large 
Leliocattleya, described as ‘an unflowered specimen, of unknown 
parentage, a distinct old Veitchian plant that the light of New South Wales 
should make flower.’ This plant had two leads, with pseudobulbs and 
AN INTERESIING LELIOCATIFLE\A FLOWERING IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. 
leaves measuring up to 24 inches; it carried a dozen or so back bulbs, none 
of which had flowered. During the past few months it has made two 
strong growths, and as soon as these were completed flower spikes were 
produced from each, one giving four flowers, and the other three. Flowers 
up to 54 inches across, with a rather flat, wide lip; sepals and petals of the 
palest creamy white on opening, passing with age to pure white ; labellum 
dull orange-yellow in the throat, with purple lines or pencilling, changing 
to cream lower down, and then to a margin of palest mauve. It is a 
