May-June, 1919.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. rT 
gloriosum, Lindleyanum, and luteopurpureum have a yellow ground with 
narrower sepals and petals, and large or numerous brown blotches. True, 
there are forms approximating to the crispum shape which have a light 
yellow ground colour, and others with large or numerous blotches, but 
there are grounds for believing that both characters represent the remains 
of hybridity, for there are gradations in shape and in the nature of 
the blotching. 
As regards tbe latter point, confirmatory evidence has appeared among 
importations. O.crispum had been imported in enormous quantities for 
upwards of thirty years, when it was discovered in a new district, in 
company with O. Hunnewellianum, another yellow and brown species of 
quite different character, and among them the corresponding natural 
hybrid, O. Adrianz, and a set of blotched forms of a distinct type, which 
are also placed among blotched crispums on account of the difficulty of 
‘separating them. . 
Experimental evidence on the subject is now, fortunately, available. 
The hybrid origin of O. Adriane has been proved by crossing O. crispum 
with O. Hunnewellianum; O. Adriane has been recrossed with O. crispum, 
by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., yeilding the hybrid known as O. 
Fascinator (O.R., xiii. pp. 201, 203, fig. 43)3 and now we have a hybrid 
from O. Fascinator again crossed with the blotched O. crispum var. 
Lucianii, raised by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, and flowered in 1916 
(O.R., xxiv. pp. 132, 155). This has a light yellow ground with large red- 
brown blotches, but most approximates to O. crispum in shape. One of the 
seedlings received a Preliminary Commendation from the R.H.S., and we 
should much like to know the range of variation shown among other 
Seedlings from the same batch. M. Peeters repeated the cross O. Adriane 
with a blotched O. crispum, and obtained forms with white, rose, light 
and dark yellow ground, and with an equally wide range of variation in the 
size, number and colour of the spots, showing various degrees of reversion 
to the original species. We had the pleasure of seeing them, and remarked 
that “it would seem incredible, without positive evidence, that such diverse 
forms could have come out of the same capsule of seed” (O.R., xvi. p. 196). 
We hope to hear the result of other experiments. R,A.R. 
MESSAGE FROM BELGIAN ORCHIDISTS.—At the meeting of the R:H.S. 
Orchid Committee held on April zgth, a reply was read from M. Firmin — 
Lambeau, President of the Belgian Orchid Society, in response to the 
Message of greetings and good wishes sent by the Committee on March 11th 
(see page 67), the substance being as follows: “I have had the honour of 
communicating to the Council of Administration of the Belgian Orchid 
Society the motion which your Committee has kindly sent me. My 
