5° THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, I916, 
about it, especially when it was pointed out that the two grow in very 
distant districts. A few years later Messrs. Sander and Sons obtained a 
large importation, which threw further doubt on the matter, and the idea 
had to be given up when Sir George L. Holford raised a different hybrid 
by crossing L. anceps and L. autumnalis. This was called L. Alexanderi 
(O.R., xx. p 16). It is now believed to be a local species, most allied to L. 
autumnalis. It flowers in the winter, and has proved a valuable acquisition. 
for cutting. 
L. ANCEPS SANDERIANA (fig. 20) represents the white type of the species, 
and is said to be a native of the Pacific coast of Mexico, far from the habitat 
of the original purple type. It was introduced by Messrs. Sander as long 
ago as 1885, and in January, 1887, it received a First-class Certificate from 
the R.H.S. The flowers are white, with the usual markings on the disc of 
the lip, and a rose-purple blotch on the front lobe, but numerous variations 
have appeared out of the same importations, some of them without any 
purple on the front of the lip. 
L. FINcKENIANA (fig. 18), appeared in the collection of the late C. W. 
Fincken, Esq., Hoyland Hall, Barnsley, and received an Award of Merit 
from the R.H.S. in December, 1892, and a First-class Certificate a year 
later. It is said to have been picked out of an importation of L. anceps 
by Mr. Fincken, on the supposition that it was a natural hybrid, because of » 
the distinct appearance of the pseudobulbs and leaves. On flowering, it 
was seen to be intermediate between L. albida and a white L. anceps, a 
character that it well shown in the figure. The locality was not stated. 
M. Juan Balme afterwards found what he regarded as a similar form in the 
State of Oaxaca, and considered it to be a hybrid between L. anceps and 
L. albida, which grow together there (O.R., xv. p. 303). This we have not 
seen, but the original form passed into the collection of E. Ashworth, Esq., 
Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. 
ABNORMAL ORCHID FLOWERS.—Two curiously abnormal flowers are sent 
by Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. The first is a hybrid Cattleya of 
the labiata group, in which the lip is united to the column to beyond the 
middle, and is then broken up into three distinct lip-like bodies, each rich 
crimson-purple in colour, with some yellow in the centre. The sepals and 
petals are white, and normal in shape, and the column bears a normal 
anther, Whether the peculiarity is permanent remains to be seen. The 
other is a twin-flowered Cypripedium of the insigne type, but in one flower 
a petal is missing, and the lower sepal is enlarged and blotched like the 
dorsal on the side where the remaining petal is, while in the other flower 
there is only half a lip, this haif being united to the side of one of the 
petals. The abnormality in this case may arise from the union of two flowers. 
