164 THE ': ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1914. 
of bulbs were the father and mother of the Odontoglossum crispum Prince 
of Wales. They were hybridised, and eventually a pod of seeds was 
produced. It was upon one of those seeds that the raisers experimented. 
“Six years ago they placed the tiny seed on the moss of a growing 
plant. For four months nothing particular happened, although it was 
watched with anxious care. Then it became fairly certain that the seed 
was germinating. Two years afterwards there was no doubt that it would 
make a plant of some sort, but what sort nobody knew, not even those who 
had been tenderly caring for it day by day, month by month, and year by 
year. And then, four days ago, when everybody was shivering with cold 
and walking about with blue noses, the Orchid burst forth.” 
We have three different versions of the story—two of them accompanied 
by photographs—but we need not follow it further, for there is a difference 
of opinion about the attractiveness of the novelty. But it is clearly one of 
the seedlings of O. crispum Black Prince, and has retained its remarkable 
colour, a fact which justifies further experiments. There is, however, a0 
earlier O. crispum Prince of Wales, and the discovery that the species 
grows in ‘‘ malarial swamps’”’ is news to us. 
EPIDENDRUM BICAMERATUM.—An Epidendrum which has just flowered 
in the collection of the Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham Vicarage, 
Chichester, proves to be the above rare Mexican species. It appears to 
have been first collected near Oaxaca, by Karwinsky, and afterwards at 
Inquila, by Jurgensen. According to Reichenbach, plants were introduced 
by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons among E. vitellinum, a smaller edition of 
which it somewhat resembles. It: bears erect racemes, with numerous 
fragrant flowers, about $ inch across, and having yellowish brown or tawny 
brown sepals and petals and a three-lobed white lip. Lindley placed it in 
a small group of the section Encyclium near E. hastatum. The species 
has been unfortunate as regards its nomenclature. Lindley called it Be 
squalidum (Fol. Orch., Epidendr. p. 8), but it is not the plant of Llave and A 
Lexarza, hence Keichenbach re-named it E. Karwinskii, after its collector 
(Gard. Chren., 1869, p. 710), overlooking the fact that there was already # 
species of that name. On discovering this he re-named it E. bicameratully 
in allusion to two hollows on the lip (Gard. Chron., 1871, p- 1194):-R-AR | 
A ees TSE ONES LE IO PEAR 
BULBOPHYLLUM FLETCHERIANUM.—A remarkable New Guinea species 
from the collection of the Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham Vicarager 
Chichester, which received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. on May 5t : : | 
last. The oblong pseudobulbs have a granular surface, and the leaves af ql 
pendulous, nearly a foot long, and purplish green, with glaucous surface | 
