286 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, 1914 
| [Feces ORCHIDS AT KEW. Ral 
@EVERAL interesting rarities have recently flowered at Kew, respecting 
which a few notes may be interesting. A plant of the Malayan 
Arachnanthe moschifera has produced a raceme of five flowers, which are 
-yellowish green, barred with brown, and have been compared to some great 
spider in shape, a resemblance to which it owes its name of Spider Orchid. 
Another rarity is Stauropsis gigantea, which is bearing a spike of its very 
fleshy yellow flowers spotted with brown. Near by a number of plants of 
‘Phalznopsis Esmeralda are making a fine show. They were received some 
time ago, and are now becoming established. Cycnoches pentadactylon is 
this time bearing a female flower, which is green with some brown bars on 
the base of the segments, and the remarkable C. Egertonianum bears 4 
‘raceme of the purple males. It is only occasionally that the green females 
_are borne at the same time. Catasetum Darwinianum has again bloomed 
‘well, all the flowers being males, as has also been the case with several 
other species that have bloomed. The proportion of female flowers oe 
cultivated plants hardly reaches five per cent., but it may be greater In 
‘their native homes, where the plants are probably more vigorous: 
Stanhopea ecornuta is rarely seen in collections, and several of the 
-commoner species have bloomed well. The very distinct Cattleya elongata 
shas produced a single flower, the plant not being very strong, but C. 
velutina and C. Grossii have flowered and bloomed well, and several of the 
-commoner species, with Lelia crispa and Dayana, and numerous hybrids 
-are at the present time producing a profusion of flowers. A very dainty 
little plant is the Bornean Liparis lacerata, a plant of which has produced 
two long racemes of its reddish orange flowers, with heavily fringed lips. 
ODONTONIA MAGALI-SANDER VAR. XANTHOTES.—An inflorescence of a 
-very charming little hybrid has been sent from the collection of O. 0: 
Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, by Mr. Rogers. It was obtained from 
Miltonia Warscewiczii xanthina crossed with the pollen of Odontoglossu™ 
-armainvillierense xanthotes, and has well retained the albinism of both 
parents. A hybrid between the typical forms of M. Warscewiczii and 0. 
armainvillierense was exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons at the R.HS: 
Holland House Show in 1913, as Odontonia Magali-Sander (O.R., xX Pr 
244), and the present one must be regarded as the albino variety of the 
“same. It has retained most of the shape of the Miltonia parent, and 
~very undulate cream white flowers with some deep yellow bars 0? 
sepals and petals, while the lip is ample, and the crest deep yellow, 
-some lighter yellow markings in front. 
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