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Mersey (gr. Mr. E. Thompson) ; S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range (gr. Mr. 
Jemmison) ; W. R. Lee, Esq., Heywood (gr. Mr. C. Branch); Messrs. 
Sander & Sons, St. Albans; Messrs. J. & A. McBean, Cooksbridge, and 
Messrs Hassall & Co., Southgate, several of which appear in the award list. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRUENTUM, Rchb. f.—In a note on Odontoglossum 
cristatum (p. 83) mention is made of a so-called O. cristatum var. 
Lehmannii, Regel, which really belongs to O. cruentum, Rchb. f., and it 
may be interesting to give the history of the latter very rare species. O. 
cruentum was described and figured in 1873 (Rchb. f. Xen. Orch., ii. 
p. 174, t. 174, fig. 1), from materials collected at Chuquibamba, 
Ecuador, by Gustav Wallis, the figure being prepared from a sketch by the 
latter, and for a long time nothing further seems to have been known about 
it. It was in 18go that the figure of the so-called O. cristatum var. 
Lehmannii was figured (Regel Gartenfl., xxxix. p. 59, t- 1315, fig. 2), the 
plant, which flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, having been 
received from Consul Lehmann, of Popayan (who probably obtained it from 
Ecuador). As to the name given by Regel, it is difficult to see how a plant 
with two small oblong calli on the lip came to be referred to O. cristatum 
with its large spiny crest, for the two are quite distinct in other respects. 
In 1892 a dried specimen of the same Odontoglossum was sent to Kew by 
“Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co., but without any record of 
locality, and in 1899 it flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
and at Glasnevin, in both cases being submitted for name. The latter 
plant is said to have been sent to Glasnevin by Sir Trevor Lawrence. The 
flowers are rather smaller than in O. cristatum, and the segments some- 
what obtuse, the ground colour being yellow, with some red-brown 
blotching on the segments, and the lip with a pair of short oblong calli. It 
is more nearly allied to O. Lindleyanum. It is very rare in cultivation 
at the present time.—R.A.R. 
to 
DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM CANDIDUM.—Flowers of this chaste and 
beautiful albino are sent by Mr. James Hudson, Gunnersbury House, 
Acton, where it is well grown. The variety was introduced by Messrs. Hugh 
Low & Co., Upper Clapton, over forty years ago, and was described by 
Reichenbach (Gard. Chron., 1876, i. p. 460), the author remarking : 
‘‘ Among the rich collections introduced by Mr. Stuart Low was one plant 
whose flowers are very large, but have not the violet-purplish tip to the six 
parts of the perigone. This makes a very striking appearance. It has just 
flowered in the collection of Edwin G. Wrigley, Esq., of Broadoaks, Bury, 
Lancashire.” Other plants have occasionally appeared in importations of 
the species from Burma, 
