132 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1914 
eises| CYMBIDIUM I'ANSONII. Ea 
T the R.H.S. meeting held on April 21st last a plant of Cymbidium — 
Mandaianum was exhibited by Messrs. W. B. Hartland & Sons, 
Ardcairn, Ballintemple, Cork, and quite confirms the view expressed two 
years ago (O.R., xx. p. 167), that it is a form of the rare C. I’Ansonii. — 
When the latter appeared in 1900 (O.R., viii. pp. 191, 209, fig. 34), we 
suggested that it might be a natural hybrid between C. Lowianum and C. 
Tracyanum, but this has not been borne out by experiment, for Messrs. 
Hartland have raised a hybrid from C. Tracyanum x Lowianum, and have 
sent flowers to Kew, together with a six-flowered spike of C. Mandaianum, 
and the two are certainly not identical. In C. I’Ansonii (and ©. 
Mandaianum) the front lobe of the lip is ovate, and there is a solid zone of 
colour in front and a median line, all recalling C. Lowianum, except that 
the colour is buff instead of crimson, and the ground colour white with light 
yellow margin to the side lobes. The sepals and petals are greenish, 
striped and slightly suffused with red-brown. The hybrid has a broader 
front lobe to the lip, with a reflexed undulate margin, and the ground 
colour is yellow with large crimson blotches near the margin, a median 
line, and a few smaller spots. The sepals and petals are more distinctly 
striped with red-brown on a more yellow ground. C. I’Ansonii remained 
unique for a good many years, but in April, 1913, Messrs. Sander exhibited 
a plant said to have been introduced from Annam (O.R., xxi. p. 156), and it 
may be that it is a wild species after all, and that its rarity and the fact that 
it appeared with C. Lowianum has been misleading. C. Tracyanum 
appeared in a somewhat similar way, and was at first thought to be @ 
natural hybrid, but is now known to be a species, and its habitat has been 
recorded. R.A.R. 
CHARLESWORTH’S CATALOGUE oF ORCHIDS for 1914, which we have 
just received, is a handsome production of 96 quarto pages, including # 
selection of species and hybrids of the widest possible extent, with prices: 
We note with satisfaction that the names are given in accordance with the 
International Rules of Nomenclature, Brassocatlelia, Sophrocatlaliar 
Brassocattleya Veitchii, &c. The parentage of hybrids is ® 
given. The Catalogue contains an interesting souvenir of the Royal 
International Horticultural Exhibition held at Chelsea, in May, 1912 ™ 
the shape of an enlarged photographic illustration of the magnificent grouy 
of Orchids, 70 feet long, which gained Sir George Holford’s Cup for the ‘ 
trade group, the Lambeau Cup for the best collection of hybrid Orchids, 
and a Large Gold Medal. The illustration is a folded plate 33 feet long 
