AUGUST, 1923.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2535 
form of Leliocattleya Momus. Odontioda Dora, of rose tint, and Odna. 
Thais were a couple of interesting hybrids, while Leliocattleya Appam 
carried a spike of four flowers in which the sepals and petals were bright 
golden-yellow and the labellum ruby crimson. 
Messrs. Cowan & Co. exhibited Leliocattleya Murillo (Lc. Rubens xX 
C. Empress Frederick), a handsome result in which the segments were 
unusually well coloured. This plant has not reached its full development, 
so finer results will doubtless be seen. 
Messrs. Sanders staged a fine example of Stanhopea tigrina, with three 
immense flowers that strongly perfumed the surrounding atmosphere. 
Other noteworthy plants shown by this firm were the rare Odontoglossum 
Schlieperianum with yellow flowers, several distinct varieties of Cypri- 
pedium Godefroyz, a fine variety of Cattleya Thurgoodiana and Miltonia 
Lambeauiana. 
GONGORA MACULATA.—Following the description of this species by 
Lindley in the Botanical Register t. 1616, we read that ‘‘ Many a strange 
figure has been met with among Orchideous plants, and numerous are the 
animal forms which botanists have fancied they could recognise among 
their singular flowers. Some are said to bear little men and women 
swinging below their canopy of petals; others have appeared to carry the 
likeness of lizards, frogs, and other reptiles, crouching among their leaves ; 
while some have been compared to Oberons and Titanias hanging by their 
tiny arms from the bells, where they have concealed themselves. To what 
the flower of the plant now figured can be likened, we profess not to know, 
unless to some of the fantastic animals of heraldry; a griffin segreant, as 
they term it, would do as well as any other for a comparison. This most 
curious species was sent us by Richard Harrison, Esq., from his garden at 
Liverpool ; it was originally introduced from Demerara, in 1832, by Mr. 
Thomas Moss, of Otterspool. It flowered in the hothouse in May; its 
bunches of flowers were two feet and a half long, and hung down most 
gracefully from the pot in which the plant was suspended. A few years 
ago the genus Gongora was so little known, that some doubts were even 
entertained of its existence.” 
Repairs of HEATING APPARATUS.—Amateurs should take the present 
favourable opportunity of having any necessary repairs done to the heating 
apparatus. In the middle of winter there is a greater likelihood of the 
boiler leaking, or a crack appearing in one of the pipes, and repairs are then 
much mcre difficult to accomplish. There is also the additional risk of 
the temperature remaining at a low level, with consequent injury to the 
plants. 
