362 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, 1914. 
on a specimen collected on bushes at Monte Verde, Cuba, by Wright 
(n. 668), and is accompanied by the note: ‘“‘ Flowers bright purple, lateral 
sepals and lateral lobes of labellum with a bright brownish spot at the 
base.” There has been further confusion in the history of this plant. 
Grisebach (Cat. Pl. Cub., p. 266) reduced O. Leiboldii as a synonym of O. 
variegatum, Swartz, together with what is called ‘‘O. Leiboldii var. 
velutinum, Lindl,” for which n. 1759 of Wright’s Cuban collection was 
cited. We do not find O. Leiboldii var. velutinum, Lindl., but what is 
clearly intended is O. velutinum, Lindl. (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. p. 166), which 
Lindley explains he had, at least in part, included under O. variegatum in 
his earlier Orchidacee Lindeniane. And he adds: “ The plant is stated by 
M. Linden to vary with white or rose-coloured flowers as well as 
in stature—a large form growing in the pine forests of Yatara, in Cuba, the 
smaller on coffee trees in the Sierra Maestre, and on the Liban Mountain.” 
The number, Linden, 1759, is added in his later Folia Orchidacea (Oncid., 
p- 13), also St. Bartholomew’s, Fornstrom, the latter, a specimen 
which had been sent to him by Reichenbach, being something 
different. Linden n. 1759 in Lindley’s Herbarium contains two small 
specimens that clearly agree with the one here figured, and the Kew sheet 
of Wright n. 668 also contains a similar small piece, while another 
specimen was collected in 1895 by Combs (n. 532) at Loma de Ciego, 
Calicita, in the Cienfuegos district of the Province of Santa Clara, Cuba. 
Further information and specimens, with notes of colour, would be useful, 
for it is not clear how far the species mentioned grow intermixed. It is 
much smaller than O. velutinum, and we think quite distinct. It should be 
taken care of. R.A.R. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE PiTTIANUM.—A flower of this handsome 
yellow variety is sent from the collection of H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, 
Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), which can best be described by saying 
that it is an O. grande with all the brown markings eliminated, these 
being replaced by deep yellow on a lighter yellow ground. It has been in 
Mr. Pitt’s collection for over seventeen years, having received an Award of 
Merit from the R.H.S. in October, 1897 (O.R., v. p. 291), and again two 
years later (vii. p. 319). A coloured plate has also appeared (Cogn. & 
Gooss. Dict. Ic. Orch., Odont. t. 13A). It is also known under the latter 
name of O. grande aureum, having been exhibited at a meeting of the 
R.H.S. held in October, 1901, by the late Mr. R. Tunstill (O.R., ix. p- 348), 
from whom we afterwards received a flower (x. p: 347), 14 also received a 
First-class Certificate from the Manchester Orchid Society in October, 
*goK (O.R., ix. p. 351), when exhibited by M. A. A. Peeters, Brussels. It 
Is a very charming variety. 
