280 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, 1914. 
factors. For example, Sobralia Ruckeri was offered at 125 francs, and 5. 
macrantha from 10 to 25. A good many things are included in the list 
which, like the latter, are still popular garden favourites, as Epidendrum 
witellinum majus, offered at 40 to 75 francs. 
A few names are unfamiliar, for example Oncidium Candelabrum, priced 
cat 60 to 100 francs, but a reference to the 1855 Catalogue shows that the 
plant is Odontoglossum coronarium. Here we find Ada aurantiaca Lindl., 
offered as a new and remarkable novelty, near Bletia and Miltonia, with 
flowers like Epidendrum vitellinum in colour, at 50 to 75 francs each ; 
‘Odontoglossum gloriosum, described as having flowers twice as large as 
O. nevium, and borne in a panicle of 30 or 40 together, at 100 to 200 francs, 
and O. triumphans, another striking novelty, at the same price. All three 
were from New Granda, where M. Linden then had a collector, and 
their introduction may almost be said to have commenced the epoch of 
~ what has been termed Cool Orchid growing. 
These old catalogues afford a very interesting glimpse of what must 
have been the condition of our collections when Calanthe Dominyi, the 
first hybrid Orchid raised by hand, burst upon the scene, and initiated 
another revolution in Orchid culture. | 
EPIDENDRUM PENTOTIS.—When the history of this fine Epidendrum 
was given, about six years ago (O.R:, xvi. p. 18g), a discrepancy in 8 
habitat was pointed out, the locality originally recorded being Minas 
Geraes, Brazil, while that of E. fragrans var. megalanthum, now regarded 
as synonymous, was said to be Guatemala. The evidence of a dried native 
‘specimen is now available, for a plant collected at Santa Rosa, Guatemala, 
at about 1800 feet elevation, by J. Donnell Smith, and distributed under 
the name of E. fragrans, proves identical. It is n. 3499 of the collectio™ 
and confirms the habitat given by Lindley. This gives the additional 
‘synonym, E. fragrans, J. D. Smith, Enum. Pl. Guat., vil. p- 39 (act : 
Swartz). Assuming the identification to be correct, and the evident? 
‘seems ample, the Brazilian habitat requires confirmation. The species - 
‘recently flowered well at Kew.—R.A.R. 
P e at 
EPIDENDRUM O’BRIENIANUM TRUE FROM SEED.--Since our not 
‘page 108 was written an earlier record of Epidendrum O’Brienianum 
‘coming true from seed has been found, though the occurrence sor ty 
have been. accidental. Among Orchids that are occasionally cle 
gamous, Messrs. James Veitch & Sons include Epidendrum O’Brienianu™ 
(Man. Orch., x. p. 77), and add that ‘seedlings have been raised from 
the capsules so produced, and the resulting progenies have conform 
Strictly to the parent plants.”—R.A.R. 
