70 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
DENDROBIUMS are the Orchids par excellence of the present season, and a 
beautiful series has been sent from the establishmeut of Mr. James Cypher, 
of Cheltenham, where these plants have long been particularly well grown. 
It includes some good forms of D. nobile and D. x Ainsworthii, the latter 
name being used in the broad sense, as covering all the hybrids between D. 
nobile and D. aureum, and thus including many very beautiful varieties, 
some of which have received distinctive names, as splendidissimum and 
Leechianum, which are superb. D. X A. Leeanum (formerly called D. X 
splendidissimum Leeanum), according to the example sent, is not quite so 
large but has rather more colour, in fact it is rather nearer D. nobile in 
general character. D. x A. Cypheri, however, must receive the palm for 
richness of colour, the inflorescence sent being a considerable advance on 
the variety roseum, in this respect being equal to a rosy purple D. nobile, but 
with the typical Ainsworthii shape and feathered blotch, the rest of the lip 
being as richly coloured as the sepals and petals. One or two other well- 
known kinds are also enclosed. 
Lelia anceps is also flowering finely in the establishment, and a siX- 
flowered raceme of L. a. Sanderiana is sent as an example. Mr. Cypher 
remarks that he had 420 blooms of different white forms at the time this 
was cut, which we can believe formed a most beautiful sight, and owing to 
the length of the scapes, it is one of those Orchids which looks most 
effective when flowering in quantity. Other beautiful Orchids sent 
include a very fine truss of Epidendrum xanthinum, and good forms of 
Paphiopedilum insigne, x nitens Sallieri, and x Ceres. 
Several beautiful Orchids are sent from the collection of T. Baxter, 
Esq., of Morecambe, by Mr. Roberts. They include different forms of 
Odontoglossum crispum and xX Andersonianum, Oncidium Cavendish- 
ianum, the beautiful Phalznopsis Schilleriana, Dendrobium Wardianum, 
Findlayanum, x Rolfe, x Desdemona, and the remarkably fringed D. 
Brymerianum, Saccolabium bellinum, and two good forms of Cattleya 
Trianz, one of which has pretty rose-pink sepals and petals, anda bright 
carmine lip, with a pale disc and on ly a trace of yellow. 
A series of half a dozen forms of Paphiopedilum insigne, from the 
collection of D. Grimsdale, Esq., of Uxbridge, shows a large amount of 
variation in the amount of spotting on the dorsal sepal, and also the utility 
of the species for cut flowers. Whether any of them agree with specially 
named varieties we cannot say, though we do not recognize them as such. 
Two very distinct flowers of Odontoglossum Xx Andersonianum are sent 
from the collection of J. F. Laycock, Esq., of Wiseton, Bawtry, Notts., by 
Mr. Lamb, one having a white ground and the spots almost absent from 
