APRIL, 1917.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 83 
3 ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISTATUM. 8 
A Odontoglossum from Glasnevin proves to be a form of O. cristatum, 
Lindl., which seems to have become rare in cultivation. It is a native 
of Ecuador, and was originally described from materials collected in the 
mountains of Paccha, in 1841, by Hartweg (Lindl. in Benth. Pl. Hartw., p. 
152). The species is characterised by the broadly deltoid lip, with large 
spiny crest, and the comparatively narrow, acuminate sepals and petals, 
which are blotched with dark brown on a yellow ground. It was introduced 
to cultivation by M. J. Linden, in 1867, and Reichenbach shortly after- 
wards described three varieties (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 1014), canaria, 
having bright yellow flowers, with a single blotch on each segment ; Argus, 
yellow, with many purple frecks and speckles (a figure in Ill. Hort., xvii. t. 
21, shows only a few very large blotches), and Dayanum, which he 
suggested might be a hybrid, though a painting by Mr. Day (Orch. Draw., 
xii. t. 26) shows a fairly normal form with a few spots on the segments 
(the ground colour recorded as represented too green through working by 
gaslight). Lehmann afterwards collected both flowering and fruiting 
specimens in the woods above Paccha, Zaruma, and Ayabamba. The 
so-called var. Lehmannii, Regel, belongs to O. cruentum, Rchb. f., whose 
history is given on page 95.—R.A.R. 
PLEIONE REICHENBACHIANA, T. Moore.—It is curious how completcly 
this beautiful little plant has been lost sight of. We do not remember to 
have ever seen it alive, and the only dried specimen at Kew is a shrivelled 
pseudobulb and a capsule sent by the Rev. C. Parish from Moulmein. It 
was originally discovered in the mountains of Moulmein by Col. Benson, 
who, in 1868, sent living plants to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons and to 
Kew, where they flowered simultaneously in November of that year The 
species was then described as Coelogyne Reichenbachiana, Veitch & T. 
Moore (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 1210), and afterwards figured (Bot. Mag., 
t. 5753). One of the reasons for its rarity may be that it grows ina rather 
out of the way locality, in which connection the following is interesting. 
Mr. John Day has appended the following MSS. note to a copy of the 
description preserved by him (Orch. Draw., xii. p. 68):—‘* Mr. Boxall 
(Low’s collector) writes from Moulmein in 1874: ‘I have just returned 
from Moullotongue, one of the highest mountains in Burma, and on the 
top found Dendrobium Jamesianum, Pleione Reichenbachiana, and about 
fifty of the beautiful Cymbidium Parishii. It was very cold. I put on 
four flannel shirts and two thick coats, and then I shivered with cold.’ ” 
Such mountain plants would require a fairly temperate climate.—R.A.R. 
