372 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (DECEMBER, 1914. 
Rises ORCHIDS IN SEASON. eae 
FLOWER of a very promising seedling, called Odontoglossum 
Al crispum memoria Lord Roberts, is sent from the collection of H. T- 
Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill. Mr. Pitt states that it was raised from 
O. crispum Ashworthianum X O. c. Oakwood Sunrise, the latter a 
well-known form in which the blotches occur on the petals, not on the 
sepals, and, as usual, when these abnormal forms are used, the influence of 
the pollen parent cannot be traced. Theseedling has broad white segments 
closely blotched all over with red-purple, and as the plant is very small at 
present, and only producing its first flower, it should develop into a very 
handsome thing. 
At the R.H.S. meeting held on November 17th last, a pretty little 
hybrid of unknown parentage was exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons, 
St. Albans, under the name of Odontonia Princess Marie Jose, of which a 
flower was afterwards sent tous. As in the case of O. brugensis and O. 
MacNabiana, the influence of Odontoglossum Thompscnianum is very 
apparent, but the Miltonia parent is not so obvious, though we suggest 
M. Bleuana. The ground colour is lilac, with a small violet-purple blotch 
at the base of the sepals, and the lower half of the petals is violet, while 
there is a circular brown blotch on the base of the lip. 
of O. MacNabiana. 
It may be a variety 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM SPECIOSUM.—The Kew Bulletin announces that a 
large plant of Grammatophyllum speciosum presented to Kew by Messrs- 
Sander & Sons, and since then one of the principal features of the Victoria 
House, is again flowering. Owing to its having been found necessary to 
reduce the plant last year by removing the oldest pseudobulbs, it has on 
this occasion only one flower-spike, about 7 feet in height, and carrying 
over 50 flowers and buds. A better idea of the capabilities of this remark- 
able Orchid was obtained when the Kew specimen flowered in 1907. It 
then developed three racemes ; the tallest attained nearly 11 feet in height, 
and had, at one time, 82 expanded flowers and 40 unopened buds in 
various stages of development, the other two racemes being only ‘slightly 
smaller. The flowers have a spice-like odour and good __ lasting 
qualities. Their ground colour is dull yellow, heavily spotted with red- 
dish , brown ; the sepals and petals are spreading, broadly oblong, obtuse, 
undulate; the lip is small, being scarcely rin. long, three-lobed, orange 
streaked with red, the disc sulcate, with three raised plates, bristling with 
short hairs. G. speciosum is the most common of the three or four species 
inhabiting the Malay Archipelago and Malacca. In a wild state, or 
