256 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AUGust, r915 
Among illustrations of striking novelties given by our horticultural 
contemporaries we notice in recent issues of the Gardeners’ Chromele and 
the Gardeners’ Magazine figures of the beautiful albino Cypripedium Curtisii 
Sander, which received a First-class Certificate at the R.H.S. meeting 
held on June 8th. We note also in the Garden an illustration of the 
magnificent example of Odontoglossum Georgius-Rex, which received both 
a First-class Certificate and a Lindley Medal at the recent Holland 
House Show. 
Tue Roti oF Honour.—The sympathy of our readers will be extended 
to two distinguished Scottish horticulturists whose sons were killed in 
action in the Dardanelles on June 28th. Captain Peter I. Whitton, of the 
7th Scottish Rifles, was the son of Mr. James Whitton, V.M.H., 
Superintendent of Glasgow Parks. He was in his 38th year, and leaves 
a widow and child to mourn his loss. Lieut. Isaac Bayley Balfour, who was 
in his 26th year, was the:son of Prof. I. Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Lieut. Balfour was attached to the 
Ist K.O.S.B., and was killed when taking part in fhe successful advance of 
the British troops. 
BULBOPHYLLUM BaLFOURIANUM, n. sp.—A remarkable New Guinea 
species, exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, at the R.H.S. 
meeting held on July 2oth last, and to which an Award of Merit was 
given. It closely resembles B. Fletcherianum in habit, and in its curious 
glaucous leaves, but has much shorter, broadly ovate sepals, which are about 
1} inches long, and closely dotted all over with lurid red-purple on @ light 
whitish yellow ground. The petals are smaller than the sepals, but similar 
in colour and with a crenulate undulate margin, while the larger recurved 
fleshy lip is dark lurid red-purple. The flowers recall a Stapelia in several 
respects.—R.A.R. 
e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
rchids are named and questions answered here as far as possible. Correspondents 
ntry or parentage of plants sent. An ADURESSED postcard m 
are 
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sent tf a reply by post is desired (abroad, reply postcards should be used). Subjects of special 
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ne a ee bifolia (Habenaria bifolia of the British Floras.), a rather ami 
S.L. & Co.—Epidendrum ne ie, 13 indl., Bulbop mie 
devkifeea 1 nemorale, Lindl., Polystachya cultrata, Lind! hich 4 
nesott ae ep ia and Eria species not yet identified. Thanks for flowers, 00 
C.A.—Many thanks. We w; se oe 
: e will report later. Through absence we are una)” | ve 
pu ey up. Several other correspondents will much oblige by excusing an immeciat 
