THE ORCHID REVIEW. TOI 
barbatum Warneri X callosum, and is a good, bold flower, but lighter in 
colour than the original form. 
Several beautiful Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of De 
Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. O. xX Andersonianum 
pulvereum is a very pretty light yellow form, having the basal halves of the 
sepals and petals densely dotted with light cinnamon-brown. It was 
described at page 48 of our third volume. A closely similar form, so far as 
the spots are concerned, subsequently bloomed in the collection, but differs 
in having a white ground, and the spots consequently brighter in colour. 
It is very interesting to compare the two side by side. O. X mulus Craw- 
shayanum is a fine variety, with the sepals and petals very heavily blotched 
with rich red-brown. There is also a fine heavily blotched form of O. x 
excellens, and O. triumphans with very bright yellow flowers and the brown 
markings considerably reduced in amount. They form a charming little 
group. 
Odontoglossum sceptrum aureum, from the collection of W. Thompson, 
Esq., is a handsome form, in which the markings are very light in colour, 
and thus the flower appears much more yellow than in the type. It is per- 
fect in shape, and the petals are exquisitively spotted. 
NOTICE OF BOOK. 
“List of published names of plants introduced to cultivation: 1876 to 1896.” 
Royal Gardens, Kew, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. Additional 
series, iv. pp. 410. 
This very useful yolume may be briefly described as an amalgamation 
of the annual Lists of New Garden Plants for the period of twenty-one years 
which it professes to cover, and as this period has witnessed an enormous 
extension in the culture of Orchids, we may take it that those who devote 
their attention chiefly to these plants will find the work as useful as those 
whose energies extend over a wider field. A preface by the director, Sir W. T. 
Thiselton-Dyer, explains the object of the work, and from it we aey make 
a few extracts :—‘‘ The activity of private cultivators and nurserymen 1s — 
tinually enriching our gardens with plants which are either new to cultiva- 
tion or have been re-introduced after being lost sight of. Every corner ss 
the world which affords any prospect of rewarding a collector is systemati- 
cally searched. It would be difficult to estimate the expenditure of money 
and labour upon this kind of enterprise, which has not seldom been 
attended with the sacrifice of life. Unfortunately, its results are too often 
launched upon commerce or otherwise distributed under names which have 
either been inaccurately determined or are purely fanciful. ie vee 
