FEBRUARY, 1916.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 59° 
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LAELIA ANCEPS SCHREDERE. | 8] 
BRILLIANTLY-COLOURED variety of Lelia anceps is sent from: 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, by Sir Frederick W. Moore, 
who remarks that it was obtained as L. anceps Amesiana. The flower is 
of medium size, and rose-purple in colour, with broad, ovate petals, and the: 
front of the lip rather narrow, and of an intense maroon purple. It has too: 
much colour for L. a. Amesiana, and we believe it to be L. a. Schroeder, 
a variety that was described by Reichenbach in 1887 (Gard. Chron., 1887, i. 
p.- 72). Reichenbach remarked: ‘A very grand variety of Lelia anceps.. 
Sepals lightest white rose; petals rose with purple tips; lip with a brown 
disc, a yellow area at each side, a fine warm purple to the side lobes, and. 
an exceedingly dark glorious blackish purple front lobe.” It was dedicated: 
to Baroness Schréder. 
CYPRIPEDIUM MURIEL VAR. RICKARDSII.—When describing the hand- 
some hybrid Cypripedium Rickardsii (page 30) we overlooked our record of | 
an earlier hybrid from C. Hera (Euryades) X Cynthia, namely, C. Muriel, 
which was shown by Sir George L. Holford, K.C.S.I., at the R.H.S. Show 
of autumn-blooming Orchids in November, 1912, and gained an Award of | 
Merit (O.R., xx. p. 373). That is recorded as most like C. Hera in general 
character, and having a broad white dorsal sepal with large chocolate 
purple blotches. (By some mischance the name has got into Cattleya, in 
the Index.)’ The one from Mr. Rickards, which must be called C. Muriel 
var. Rickardsii, shows more of the suffused Charlesworthii colour in the- 
dorsal sepal. 
ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM VAR. INSIGNE.—We have received flowers of a 
handsome form of Oncidium varicosum from the collection of Alderman 
William Bolton, Wilderspool, Warrington. They belong to the variety 
insigne, which was described in 1898 (Rolfe in Orch. Rev., vi. p. 27), it 
having appeared successively in the collections of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Glasnevin, Mr. H. Druce, St. John’s Wood, and Mr. Wm. 
Brooks, Weston-super-Mare. It differs markedly from the type in having 
a large crimson blotch surrounding the crest, which sets the flower off to 
great advantage, and is apparently more than a mere casual variation, but 
we are still without information as to its exact origin. It would be- 
interesting to know whether it is found in importations of the type or 
occurs in some different locality.—R.A.R. 
