52 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JuLy, 1917. 
of Cycnoches—they were long supposed to be “sports ’’—are shown 
growing from the same pseudobulb of C. Egertonianum. The mystery was 
long inexplicable, for it did not appear to be a case of the now well-known 
sexual dimorphism, both being males, and even belonging to different 
Fig. IQ. CYCNOCHES EGERTONIANUM (Miss Drake’s drawing). 
sections of the genus. But the appearance, in 1895, of bona-fide female 
flowers of C. Egertonianum, in the Kew collection, demanded a solution, and 
as a possible one suggested itself on a careful study of all the facts, the casé 
was put before Mr. Bateman, who was then living. It was that as the twO 
