34 THE ORCHID REVIEWV. __ (Feervary, 1918, 
appeared in a rather mysterious way. The first that we have any record of : 
was the C. Mandaianum that was exhibited by Mr. W. A. Manda, of St. 
Albans, at the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition in May, 1912, © 
and which received the first prize for a new Orchid, but which we were | 
unable to distinguish from C. I’Ansonii (O.R., xx. p. 167). In the following” 
April, Messrs. Sander & Sons exhibited a plant of C. I’Ansonii which is 
said to have been imported from Annam (xxi. p- 156); while in April, rgt4, 
‘Messrs. W. B. Hartland & Sons, Cork, exhibited a plant of C. Mandaianum 
which we remarked (xxii. p. 132) quite confirmed the view expressed two 
years earlier that it is a form of the rare C. I’Ansonii. On the latter 
occasion a hybrid raised from C. Tracyanum xX -Lowianum was also” 
exhibited, which was quite distinct, and we remarked of C. I’Ansonii, “it 
may be that its rarity and the fact that it appeared with C. Lowianum has — 
been misleading.” Other evidence derived from hybridity is equally 
emphatic. In December, 1906, Mr. J. W. Moore, Rawdon, Leeds, ‘ 
exhibited a hybrid from C. Lowianum x Tracyanum, under the name of © 
C. Cravenianum (0.R., xv. p. 20), and in January, 1908, an Award of Merit” 
was given to C. gattonense, derived from the same parentage in the : 
collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (xvi. p. 71). A few months later 
we saw, in the collection of Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, a seedling from the 
Same parentage, which was pushing up two spikes (p. 326), and in 
November following another seedling was exhibited from the collection of : 
W. Bolton, Esq. (p. 370). None of them have produced C. I’Ansonii, and 
no other combination would account for its characters, 
that it is a natural species, and await information as to its habitat. 
count. R.A.R. : : 
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sr eitnlp in SESE NTR A ee 
anes is probably a great future for Orchids in extreme South Florid 
After the disastrous freeze of last February, which almost destroyed | 
orange groves here (lat. 28° 30’), I visited my friend Mr. Charles Simpso! | 
who for fourteen years has been transforming a fifteen-acre tract of nativ 
forest and shrubs into a botanical 
original interest and beauty. 
on the east coast of Florida, a 
cocoanut palms being defolj 
Orchids naturalised in the fo 
Dendrobiums, &c.—and I w 
ORCHIDS IN FLORIDA. 
rest escaped injury—Cattleyas, Epidendrum 
as particularly impressed by a luxuriant clu 
