82 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Aprit, 1918. i‘ 
and was photographed by Mr. A. E. P. Griessen, who wrote of it: “Its _ 
flowers are pure white, as white as any Orchid may be expected to be, with 
only the disc of the lip yellow. Another specimen flowered during May in q 
the Agri-Horticultural Gardens, of Alipore. These are the only two 
specimens I know of so far.” 
The V. teres candida of the Orchid Album (ix. t. 409), which floweredin 
the collection of the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim, has white flowers a 
with a rosy stain on the front of the lip, and apparently represents the — 
variety aurorea, Rchb. f., which was originally described from flowers sent — 
by Mr. W. Bull, the author calling it (Gard. Chron., 1881, 1. p. 688) a 
lovely variety. Flowers snow-white, with a light rosy hue on the anterior 
part of thelip, and some light yellow in the throat.’’ We believe there 
are a few other plants in existence in which the albinism is not quite : 
complete. : 
A well-grown clump of the white variety would make an interesting 
sight, one, for example, comparable with that of the type described by 
Mr. Prestoe, as grown in Trinidad. ‘Some years ago,” he remarked, “I — 
placed a good tuft on an old stump of Bauhinia ungula.’ It was thus fully — 
exposed there, and has always flowered most profusely. Before it has never 
given a spike. I have had over 250 spikes open at the same time. When — 
it flowers it is all brown and shrivelled.” The conditions are presumably : 
similar to those of its native habitat. 
G] HYBRID OPHRYSES. Fj 
T is with much pleasure that we record the further success of M. Fernand 
Denis, Balaruc-les-Bains, France, in hybridising the interesting genl® 
Ophrys. M. Denis now sends three inflorescences of his seedlings, with 
notes of two others. The latter, we find, represent crosses which have been 
recorded as natural hybrids; the flowers themselves have been sent to Dr, 
M. Keller, Switzerland, who is engaged on a monograph of Europeat — 
Orchids, but we hope to receive examples later. : 
The three inflorescences sent have all been derived from M. Denis — 
original O. tenthredinifera x aranifera, which proved identical with 0. a 
Grampinii, Cortesi (0. R., xx. p. 199; xxii.p. 100). One of these was self: 7 
fertilized, and gave fertile seeds. The seedlings vary considerably. Some — 
are said to be like O. Grampinii and var. etrusca; one showed a stroms — 
reversion towards O. tenthredinifera (this M. Denis is unable to send, 4 
the flowers have been eaten), and others were intermediate betwee? — 
Grampinii and aranifera. Two of the latter are sent. Both have light . 
