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Sgpr.-Ocr., 1919-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 143: 
fig. 2). Smith recorded O. fucifera as the other parent, but it is a case of 
mistaken identity, for what he describes and figures as O. fucifera is O, 
aranifera. ©. Aschersonii was described in 1887 from plants found in 
Champagne, France. 
-OPHRYS EPEIROPHORA, Peter (apifera X aranifera).—Gathered in Magpie 
Bottom, near Shoreham, Kent, in 1898, by Mr. G. L. Bruce (Haub. & 
Marsh. Fl. Kent, p. 334). This hybrid was originally found in Bavaria, in 
June, 1882. 
Opurys HYBRIDA, Pokorny (aranifera X muscifera)—Found on Wye 
- Downs, Kent, in 1905, by Messrs. H. Walker and G. W. Harris. Described’ 
and figured in Orch. Rev., xiii. p. 234, fig. 56, with the parents. Also known 
from Austria and Switzerland. This hybrid was originally described in 
1851 but its history can be carried back for over twenty years, for the same 
plant was figured by G. E. Smith (l.c., pp. 55, 73, t- 4, fig. 13), under the 
name of O. aranifera, and later as a variety of O. fucifera (Sm. & Sowerb. 
Engl. Bot., t. 2649, fig. a). 
(To be concluded.) 
BULBOPHYLLUM SOCIALE, Rolfe—A plant that has just flowered in the: 
collection of J. A. Ansaldo, Esq., Rosebank, Mumbles, proves to be the rare 
Bulbophyllum sociale, Rolfe, a species that flowered recently at Kew in a 
clump of B. Ericssonil, Krinzl., and was figured in the Botanical Magazine 
(t. 8761). In this case also the history is not known, but from the original 
as remarked, it is assumed to be a native’ 
one having appeared accidentally, 
The plant has 
of the Bencoolen district, on the west coast of Sumatra. 
entirely the habit of B. Ericssonii, but the flowers are borne in a short 
raceme, and are very different in shape, bearing some resemblance to those 
of B. yalbinum, Ridl. They are somewhat darker in colour than in the one 
figured, being of a more uniform lurid purple tint. The specific name 
alludes to the circumstances under which the plant was found.—R.A.R. 
CHARLESWORTHIARA ALpHa.—A ‘striking hybrid, raised by Messrs- 
m Miltonioda Ajax (Cochlioda 
It was exhibited at the R.H.S. 
meeting held on June 17th last, on the occasion of its flowering for the: frst 
time. It thus combines the character of the three genera Cochlioda, 
Miltonia, and Oncidium. It will be noticed that Cochlioda Neetzliana 
comes in through both sides of the ancestry, and it is therefore not surprising 
to find that the flowers are of a nearly uniform scarlet throughout, with a 
modified shape. It should develop into a fine thing when the plant becomes: 
strong.—R.A.R. 
