176 THE ORCHID .REVIEW. [Nov.-Drc., 1919. 
jumble, the name having been applied to five different plants: (1), the 
original C. ventricosum Batem., a Guatemalan species; (2), the green 
flowers shown in Bateman’s plate 40 as produced by a plant of C. 
Egertonianum; 3), the female of C. Egertonianum, mis-called C. 
ventricosum by Lindley; (4), Reichenbach’s so-called C. ventricosum from 
Ecuador, which is C. Lehmannii, Rchb., f.; and (5), Reichenbach’s 
supposed sex of C. ventricosum from Chiriqui, which is probably the female 
of C. aureum, Lindl. The details have already been given. Lindley’s 
enquiry, ‘‘ What, then, is Cycnoches ventricosum ?” has been answered in 
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EVERAL interesting and beautiful Orchids are sent from the collection 
of J. J. Neale, Esq., Oxton, Kenton, near Exeter (gr. Mr. Swinden). A 
fine flower of the New Guinea Hyalosema grandiflorum is one of seven 
borne by the plant, and must have made an effective picture, for the 
numerous hyaline spots on the dorsal sepal, from which the genus takes its 
name, give ita very marked character. Its history has already been given 
(see p. 130). Ccelogyne fuliginosa is a North Indian species, having buff 
yellow sepals and petals, and copious dusky brown veining on its prettily 
fringed lip. It is figured at t. 4440 of the Botanical Magazine, though the. 
three flowers there shown normally appear in succession. Polystachya 
laxiflora, Lindl., is a West Tropical African species which bears short 
panicles of light yellow flowers, larger than those of the well-known South 
African P. pubescens. The other flowers are hybrids. Odontoglossum. 
Cooksoniz (percultum X armainvillierense) is a handsome thing, having 
exceptionally broad violet-purple sepals and petals, with a sharply-defined 
lilac apex, the lateral pair having also a few small spots, while the lip has a 
white apex and many small purple blotches behind. Miltonia Bleuana 
var. Queen Mary is a charming form, having a solid rose-purple blotch at 
the base of the petals, and a darker radiating mask on the lip, thus showing 
more of the Roezlii character than usual. Cypripedium Gaston Bultel var. 
King Edward VII. is a fine bold flower, more or less veined with purple- 
brown on the dorsal sepal, petals, and lip. Lastly, we have a remarkably 
dark form of Brassocatlelia Prince of Wales (Bc. Veitchii x Le. 
Dominiana), having the sepals and petals of a uniforin saturated carmine- 
rose, and the lip equally dark, with the typical Dowiana veining on the disc. 
It is a brilliant thing, and should be useful for recrossing with some of the 
finely-shaped Brassocattleyas that are somewhat deficient in colour. 
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