102 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1918, 
albinos in some of the principal genera of Orchids, such as Cattleya and 
Dendrobium, and this shows the contraritey of human nature in regard to’ 
these genera. We search and endeavour to secure albinos, and when we 
have flowers which are white we search and endeavour to secure coloured 
varieties.” 
Zz HYBRID OPHRYSES. - 
OME additional seedling Ophryses have been sent by M. Fernand Denis, 
S$ Balaruc-les-Bains, France (see pp. 82-83), namely two obtained by 
self-fertilisation of O. arachnitiformis, and two others from O. Speculum X 
bombyliflora. Somewhat later came examples of two interesting wild 
plants. 
O. ARACHNITIFORMIS, Gren. and Phil., was described in 1860, and is 
regarded as a subspecies of O. aranifera by M. Camus, who cites O. aranifera 
var. niceensis, Barla (Orch. Alpes-marit., p. 66, t, 54, fig. 12-23), as 
synonymous. The strong purple suffusion in the sepals and petals, however, 
suggests the influence of some purple-flowered species. M. Denis remarks: 
“*T self-fertilised flowers of O. arachnitiformis, and sowed the seeds 34 years 
ago. I have now a dozen seedlings in bloom, which with slight variations 
may be said to reproduce the mother plant. I send two of the scapes.” 
The sepals and petals are oblong and somewhat elongated, the sepals with 
a light purple suffusion on either side of the central nerve. In one the lip 
is brown, with a large white marking in the centre, much like that of O. 
aranifera. In the second the lip has a bro 
brown band between the two nearly paral] 
The cross O. Speculum x bomb 
is not enumerated by M. Camus, 
ad green margin, and there is a 
el white lines. ae a 
yliflora seems to be new, at all events it : 
hence we suggest for it the name O. 
FERNANDI, Rolfe. Two forms are sent, which vary somewhat, but both 
have the general shape of O. bombyliflora, especially in the lip, but all the 
parts are modified in structure and colour. The first has green’ sepals and 
petals, with a tinge of purple at the base, and the lip is three-lobed, the 
greater part brown, paler at the margin, and with some irregular whitish — 
lines on the disc ; and a small yellow area on the side lobes. The other has” 
more purple in the segments, and a smaller, more entire lip, on which the | 
whitish lines are limited to a short pair at the base, the prevailing colour 
being brown with some yellow on either side of the disc. Se 
The later sending contains what M. Denis thinks must be a natural 
hybrid between Ophrys aranifera and arachnites. It was found neat 
Martigues, Bouches du Rhone, S. France, where he also found Q. aranifere 
