188 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Sepr.-Ocr., 1918, 
being normal C. Iris. The other half of the lip has the shape, texture, and 
bronzy colour of an ordinary petal of C. Iris, the two halves being as 
sharply defined as if they had been cut and then joined down the centre. 
The effect on the column is equally marked. On the normal side of the 
flower there is the usual curve and the rounded angle, but on the other side 
the presence of Az results in a sharp angle, and an attempt at straightening 
the column, with the additional perfect anther and pollinia as described. It 
is a very interesting and instructive flower. R.A.R. 
| Ries] CATTLEYA CITRINA. | Pees 
HIS remarkable Cattleya has become rare in gardens of late years, 
and it may be interesting to give a record of a group shown at a 
meeting of the R.H.S. some half-a-century ago. 
Those who are fond of new sensations must have been gratified by the 
extraordinary effect produced by a mass of about a hundred plants—all 
beautifully in flower—of Cattleya citrina, as furnished by Messrs. Low to 
the exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society of Tuesday last. 
Constant groups of admiring visitors might be seen hanging about these 
strange flowers, and speculating as to the family to which they belonged, 
though in most instances, we believe, the Lilies rather than the Orchids 
had the credit of them. And indeed at a distance they might have been 
mistaken for a bank of daffodils! We hope that Mr. Low’s plants may 
remain in flower for another fortnight, and that he will repeat the display 
at the next regular Tuesday meeting of the Society, when it might furnish 
a hint for some interesting remarks. One important lesson, however, may 
even now be drawn from it, and that is the striking effect which masses of 
Orchids of the same or nearly related species are capable of producing: 
No plants gain so much by an orderly, or lose so much by what we ca? 
only describe as a higgeldy-piggeldy, arrangement as the Orchids. We are 
convinced that the time is rapidly approaching—and therefore exhibitors 
must prepare for it—when a promiscous jumble of air plants and Odonto- 
glots, Dendrobes and Cypripediums, Cattleyas and Burlingtonias, will no 
more be endured than the mingling of Orchids with Cacti and other 
incongruous forms would be tolerated now; and yet twenty-five oF thirty 
years ago such barbarisms were of constant occurrence.—Gard. Cliril 
1867, p. 488. 
This was at the meeting held on May 7th, and at the following meeting 
another group was shown, on which Mr. Bateman commented as follows’ 
Cattleya citrina, of which Messrs. Low again exhibited a collection, had, 
he said, a tendency always to grow downwards, and he pointed out the 
