FEBRUARY, 1918.] THE ORCHID REVIEW: 33 
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roe CYMBIDIUM LANSONII. 
HEN the original plant of Cymbidium I’Ansonii flowered in the 
establishment of Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., nearly eighteen years 
ago, out of an importation of C. Lowianum said to have been received 
from Upper Burma, it was suggested that it was a natural hybrid between 
C. Lowianum and C. Tracyanum, and the desirability of testing the matter 
by experiment was pointed out (O.R. vill. pp. 191, 2009, fig. 18). The 
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Fig. 3. CyYMBIDIUMI’ANSONII. 
plant had received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. at the recent 
The opinion has not stood the test of experiment, and 
Temple Show. 
It now seems probable that 
attention has again been called to the matter. 
it is a distinct species, whose habitat is still imperfectly known, as was the 
case with C. Tracyanum itself until Dr. Alexander Kerr met with it in 
quantity in the Chengmai district of Siam (O.R., xix. pp. 39, 40). C. 
I’Ansonii was long known by the single unique plant, which passed into 
the collection of Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., but a few others have since 
