_40 THE ‘ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1916. 
Evelyn Ames X insigne Harefield Hall var. is most like C. Leeanum with 
enlarged petals. _C. Troilus formosum has. broad villosum-like petals, and 
avery heavily-blotched dorsal sepal, and is a seedling of much promise. 
C. illustre (nitens x Lathamianum) is a fine thing, with villosum-like 
petals, and a broad, closely-blotched Leeanum-like dorsal sepal. Lastly, 
€. Spicerianum xX aureum virginale has broad petals, margined with 
-white and veined with purple, and a very broad white dorsal sepal, 
with a dark median band and bright purple streaks on each side. This 
-should be taken care of, and the presence of white in the petals should 
be followed up. 
These flowers, beautiful as they are, show to what a preponderating 
extent the influence of C. insigne is represented in winter-blooming 
-Cypripediums, and the need for introducing a greater range of colour. ‘But 
here comes in the difficulty that. purple is chiefly represented in the 
summer-blooming kinds, and its introduction might-change the. period of 
‘flowering, and thus defeat its particular object. . We would suggest. further 
crossing with C. Fairrieanum and C. Charlesworthii, as neither of them 
have much. green in the flowers, and the latter has already the desired 
colour in the dorsal sepal. 
LANIUM BERKELEYI.—A note was given at p. 357 of our last volume with 
respéct to Lanium Berkeleyi being found on the roots of animported Lelia 
purpurata. Mr. E. W. Thompson now writes that there was some mistake 
in the record, for Mr. Smith informs him that the plant was found on. a 
Cattleya Loddgesii purchased on March t1oth, 1899.. This tells against 
the suggested Santa Catherina habit, and it may be added that in October, 
1898, a specimen was sent for determination from the collection of the Rt- 
Hon. J. Chamberlain, with the record that it was “taken from Cattleya 
Loddigesii.” (This was not available when the note was written.) Major- 
Gen. Berkeley’s original plant, sent in 1891, was said to have been found 
on the roots of C. guttata, and in April, 1895, another came from the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, as found growing with C. Harrisoniana- 
A question now arises whether C. Loddigesii should not be read as C- 
‘Harrisoniana, for the two have been somewhat confused, and certain 
importations have been sold under the wrong name. According to M- 
Forget, C. Harrisoniana and C. guttata are warm-growing species, occurring 
in the lowlands between the sea and the mountains in the Province of Rio, 
while C. Loddigesii, of the interior of Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes, is 2 cool 
grower (O.R., xv. p. 293). It is hardly likely that the Lanium occurs 
under both conditions. Another plant appeared with Messrs. Sander in 
October, 1894, which they thought had come from Pernambuco, but the 
point requires confirmation.—R.A.R. 
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