118 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1916 
Ey CATASETUM CHRISTYANUM. 
TARY 
N my collection of Catasetums one has just bloomed which deserves to be 
known to collectors, but I can find no trace of anything like it in the 
works I have consulted. It was found in the Utinga forest, in the suburbs 
of the City of Para. The flowers, with the exception of the lip, are similar 
to C. Gnomus, of which I have a few varieties. The plant is of small 
habit, the pseudobulbs measuring only four inches long, and bearing four 
leaves, while C. Gnomus is a much larger plant. The flowers are four 
inches across; the sepals and petals are olive green, the former suffused 
and the latter spotted with reddish brown inside. The lip is pale green, 
spotted with reddish brown, and bordered with bristles all round, and the 
column is yellowish green, spotted with chocolate brown at the back. I 
am sending you a dried flower and a photograph taken when the plant was 
perfect. J. Stmao vA Costa. 
Balem de Para. 
(We believe the plant is Catasetum Christyanum, Rchb. f. (Gard. 
Chron., 1882, i. p. 588), a species that flowered in the collection of Mr. 
Thomas Christy, Sydenham. It is said to have been received from the 
Upper Amazon, but the exact locality is not specified.—Eb.}. 
Rep Cross SALE.—Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society and 
others are appealed to for plants and bulbs, including Orchids, horticultural 
books, paintings, photographs, Japanese prints, cut flowers, and bouquets, 
to be sold by auction on June 28 and 29, to help the funds of the Red Cross 
Society. Offers should reach the Secretary of the R.H.S., Vincent Square, 
on or before May 27, in order that they may be duly entered in the 
Catalogue, which will be issued about June 17. The objects themselves 
must reach Vincent Square early in the day on Tuesday, June 27. Cut 
flowers will be received and sold on the second day. Admission will be by 
catalogue only, or of the auctioneers, to be obtained from Vincent Square, 
price 2s. 6d., profits arising from the catalogue to be handed to the proceeds 
of the sale. 
Rep Cross SALE oF ORcHIDS.—On Friday, April 14, a sale of Orchids 
was held by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, on behalf of Messrs. Armstrong 
& Brown, one half the proceeds to be handed to the Red Cross Fund. 
lot of healthy seedling Cattleyas and Lzliocattleyas were offered. A few 
choice things were purchased by Mr. J. Gurney Fowler, including Cattleya 
Mendelli var. Stuart Low, 42 guineas, and Brassocattleya Excelsior, 2° 
guineas. It is expected that a substantial sum, will go to the Fund. 
