3° THE ORCHID REVIEW. | FEBRUARY, 191+ 
collection at Chatsworth, whither it had been brought by Mr, John 
Gibson.” It was subsequently figured (Bot. Reg., xxvi. t. 24), when it was 
added that plants from the same source had also flowered with Mr. Bate- 
man, who remarked that the pseudobulb had much of the form and hue of 
a truffle. Still later it was also figured in the Botanical M agazine (t. 4496), 
where it is remarked: ‘Discovered by Dr. Wallich in the mountain 
district of Sylhet and Khasia, and found in great abundance; also by Dr. 
Hooker as he approached Darjeeling in Sikkim Himalaya, and from him 
the specimens are derived which are here represented.” It has a more 
eastern distribution than P. precox, and is readily distinguished from it 
by the smaller, diflerently-shaped pseudobulbs, the darker- coloured flowers,. 
and the much smaller fringes of the keels of the lip. R.A.R. 
BES 
Sas) 
ALBINISM AND COLOUR IN ORCHIDS. | 
HAVE read with much interest the recent articles on the hybrids of 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea. I also have found in many cases a tendency 
of C. D. aurea to produce whites, or at least forms with white sepals and 
petals. C. Fabia alba Mme. Ed. Debrie, which flowered in October, 1906, 
was raised between C. D. aurea and C. labiata Cooksonii, and the flowers 
of all my plants had sepals and petals of the purest white, with coloured 
lips; while C. Fabia alba, crossed again with different hybrids, produced 
also white divisions. In December, 1909, I flowered Brassocattleya Diana 
(C. D. aurea X Be. Orpheus), and all the flowers were white, including the 
lips, while, on the contrary, Bc. Orpheus crossed with C. labiata alba gave 
tinted flowers and marked lips, another proof of the influence of C. 
aurea in producing white. Ina batch of Leliocattleya Sir Douglas Haig 
I found two valuable plants with white sepals and petals, which again 
shows the same influence, the character in this case coming through C. 
Octave-Doin (Mendelii x Dowiana aurea). 
During last year the Société Nationale d’horticulture de France has 
held only one meeting monthly, so’ that it sometimes happens that a 
new hybrid flowers between two meetings, and some of my novelties have 
not been named. Some were exhibited in November last, and were 
described in the Society’s Journal (p. 175); but there are two mistakes- 
Brassocattleya Douamont is from Bc. Maroniz (or Mme. Ch. Maron) X C- 
Fabia Vigeriana (not B. Maroni, as recorded), and Bc. Mr. D. Bois is 
from Leliocattleya Truffautiana (syn. luminosa) x Bc. Leemanie, and is 
not, as recorded, of the same parentage as Bc. Dietrichiana, which is 
from Be. Leemaniz and C. Fabia Vigeriana. C. MARON. 
Brunoy, France. 
