JANUARY, 1917.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 3 
that about a year and a half ago he assisted a few others in starting a 
Horticultural Club there, which is going very strong. Quarterly Shows 
are held, and Orchids, both imported and native, are largely exhibited. 
Among its members are Messrs. W. E. Broadway and R. O. Williams, 
both Kew men, and Mr. W. G. Freeman, formerly of the Imperial Institute. 
_ At a recent Show Mr. Potter obtained a first prize for a fine plant of 
Oncidium ampliatum majus, while for a fine specimen of Dendrobium 
superbiens, which was the finest specimen of its kind in the colony, he and 
another Orchid grower were bracketed ‘“‘ first.” A few notes of these 
meetings from time to time would be acceptable. 
ONCIDIUM H#MATOCHILUM.—The figure and history of Oncidium 
hematochilum, Lindl., given at pp. 211, 212 of our last volume, has brought 
us a very interesting letter from Mr. T. J. Potter, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 
who, a good many years ago, discovered that this plant, long supposed to 
be a New Grenadan species, was a native of Trinidad, and further a natural 
hybrid between O. Lanceanum and O. luridum, with which it grows in the 
Cedros district. Mr. Potter succeeded in crossing the two species together, 
and raised a single seedling, which it was hoped would flower and remove the 
last element of doubt in the matter (O.R., vii. p. 273). Mr. Potter now 
writes: ‘‘ Unfortunately my young seedling perished before it flowered, so 
I have not been able yet to establish the fact by what is known in chemistry 
as a confirmatory test, but I have often seen the two varieties, i.e., the one > 
with a large sanguineous blotch on the lip and that with merely a splash 
or touch of crimson on the yellow lip.” We greatly regret to hear of the 
fate of that seedling, not that we have any doubt of the correctness of Mr. 
Potter’s interesting discovery, but because it would have shown what the 
primary hybrid is like, for in the light of subsequent discoveries there is 
the probability that recrossing with the parents also takes place. We hope 
that the experiment will be repeated. It may be interesting to add that 
some years ago Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. obtained an importation of O. 
Lanceanum in which three plants of hcematochilum and examples of O. 
luridum were found (O.R., vii. p. 293).—R.A.R. 
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SOPHROCATL&LIA Myra.—A promising hybrid, raised by Messrs Flory 
& Black, Slough, from Sophrocatlelia Althea x Leeliocattleya Myra, of 
which the first ower has been sent to us for record. It has an expanse of 
five inches, and has light salmon-rose sepals, with rather more yellow in 
the petals, and the lip is two inches long, with orange-yellow disc, and the 
front lobe and margin of the side lobes carmine, with somewhat deeper 
veining, The flower most resembles the Cattleya type, but the influence 
of the Sophronitis can be traced. It should develop into a good thing. 
