154 THE ORCHID REVIEW. _ (Jury, 1917. 
‘many months. on the plant.’”’ It would, of course, be absurd to blame 
Miss Drake wholly for the error, because nothing was then known about 
sexuality in the yenus, and she may have acted upon instructions, but it 
shows the necessity of caution when plates are being made up from 
different materials. A photographic reproduction of this remarkable plate 
is given on page 152, and the succeeding one shows more nearly how it 
might have been represented had Mr. Raffill’s camera then been available. 
This is a combination of two photograpns of the same plant of C. 
Egertonianum, made in successive years, and showing the female flowers 
on the right, and the males on the left, and the latter shows that Miss 
Drake’s drawing still leaves something to be desired in the way of accuracy. 
In the case of the allied genus, Catasetum, the existence of sexuality 
led to an even greater mistake, for Lindley established a genus for what 
afterwards proved to be only the females of Catasetum. Darwin connected 
the two, but introduced another error with regard to Myanthus (see Rolfe 
in Journ. Linn. Soc., xxvii. pp. 206-225, t. 8). R.A.R. 
(To be concluded.) 
ac caaapagiblaatts 
DENDROBIUM LuTWYCHEANUM vaAR. MITCHELLII.—A flower of @ 
particularly interesting and beautiful hybrid Dendrobium has been sent from 
the collection of J. J. Bolton, Esq., of Pendleton, near Manchester. Mr. 
Bolton writes: ‘It is from a seedling raised by the oldest Orchid grower 
in this country, Mr. E. Mitchell, Sale, Cheshire, who was for many years 
gardener to the late Dr. Ainsworth, and the raiser of Dendrobium Ains- 
worthii. He is still devoted to his profession, though now 82 years of age 
After many unsuccessful attempts he managed to raise the plant from 
which this bloom has been taken. The parents are D. Wardianum X 
Ainsworthii splendidissimum grandiflorum, the Wardianum carrying the 
seed pod. I think it is a little beauty.” It is certainly a handsome ‘thing; 
the flower being over 3} inches broad across the petals, and of excellent 
shape. The sepals are rose-purple, and the petals similar above, but much 
lighter below, while the lip has a very broad, slightly feathered, maroon 
disc, with a yellow ring round it, this passing into white, and then rose 
purple at the apex. Both the petals and lip are very broad, the latter 
measuring one and three-eights across, with a correspondingly ample disc. 
It is a variety of D. Lutwycheanum (O.R., ii. p. 202), from the collection 
of S. G. Lutwyche, Esq., having the same parentage as the original, but 0 
superior decorative merit, and we have much pleasure in connecting it with 
Mr. Mitchell’s name, as desired. D. Clio, for which Sir Trevor Lawrence 
received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S: in March, 1896 (O.R., iv. Ps 
122), obtained from the reverse cross, is another variety, and now stands a 
D. Lutwycheanum var. Clio. 
