FEBRUARY, 1923-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 55 
EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM. 
F all the many species of Epidendrum, but few have obtained so much 
popularity as E. vitellinum, and this no doubt on account of the 
bright cinnabar-red colour of the flowers. This species has a history dating 
back to 1830, when specimens were collected by Dr. Coulter on the high 
mountains near Xalapa, in Mexico. The first living plants received in 
England were collected by Hartweg on the Cumbra of Totontepeque, and 
one of the first to flower was seen in Mr. Barker’s collection at Springfield, 
near Birmingham, in 1839. It was subsequently collected by Roezl, near 
the Vera Cruz and Mexico railway, a few leagues from Orizaba, growing 
upon old and stunted oaks, in a district where it rains regularly from one to 
two hours a day from May to October, and where from December to 
February dense fogs are common, and frost by no means rare during the 
night. 
Probably in no present-day collection is this beautiful species better 
cultivated than at Bridge Hall, Bury, Lancs. On October 5th, 1922, Mrs. 
Bruce and Miss Wrigley exhibited 24 plants at the Manchester Orchid 
Society, and received the high award of a Gold Medal, while gold medal 
points were granted to their able cultivator, Mr. Arthur Burns. These 
plants carried a total of about 45 tall spikes, many of them branched, and 
several with over twenty flowers. A photograph of the group, kindly sent 
by Miss Wrigley, is a permanent record of this fine achievement. 
Odontoglossum grande is another of the fine old species that is 
successfully cultivated in the Bridge Hall collection. On the same 
occasion, fifteen specimens were exhibited at the Manchester Orchid 
Society, and a Cultural Certificate was given to each plant. A photograph 
shows one of them with five spikes and sixteen flowers, truly a fine result. 
Miss Wrigley informs us that all the above plants were purchased by 
her father, Mr. O. O. Wrigley, many years before he died in 1917. Their 
splendid growth reflects great credit on the gardener, who unfortunately 
has to contend with an extremely bad climate. Such fine cultural results 
are not only very much appreciated by all who see them, but are a great 
encouragement to others, more especially to those similarly situated in an 
unfavourable atmosphere. 
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CYPERORCHIS. ELEGANS.—This was originally discovered by Dr. 
Wallich, in 1821, in the forests of Nepal. Later on it was found by 
Griffith on the Khasia Hills near Myrung in 1835. The racemes are dense, 
pendulous and many-flowered. Individual flowers about 14 inches long, of 
a uniform light ochreous-yellow, the sepals and petals having recurved tips, 
the lip narrowly wedged-shaped, and with two orange raised lines on the disc. 
