130 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, rg15. 
-details are unfamiliar, and it is fortunate that the worthy doctor happened 
‘to visit the International Show, likewise the Express correspondent, other- 
wise the world might never have heard of that Venezuelan Phalznopsis, 
-and perhaps one or two other surprising details. We wonder whether they 
will turn up at the big Show at Chelsea. 
Another interesting geographical discovery is announced in the Windsor 
Magazine for March, namely, the presence of an Odontoglossum in Fiji, in 
which “the lip is pink instead of chocolate.” We also learn that “ until 
Mr. Kefford visited Vanua Levu, Orchids were unknown in Fiji,” so that 
‘the visit must have been made a considerable time ago. Anyhow, it 
‘resulted in the discovery of the ‘‘ Corona Keffordii.”” The story is narrated 
by Mr. Ralph Scott, on the authority of Mr. Kefford himself. ‘‘I caught 
sight,” he says, “‘ of something above my head in the branches of a # tree; 
it was the Corona Keffordii, a delicate waxen thing drooping from a stalk 
embedded in the bark.” And there are a good many more interesting details. 
We confess not to have yet made its acquaintance, but then ‘ one might 
‘search the swamps for a year and then not find this one’s duplicate,’— 
which seems not at all unlikely under the circumstances ! 
The February issue of the Journal of Heredity contains (pp. 55-56) a0 
-article by Mr. O. F. Cook, entitled ‘« Two Classes of Hybrids,”’ in which it 
is urged that the use of distinctive names for the two principle classes of 
hybrids would be in the interest of convenience and intelligibility. He 
thinks the ordinal designation, first, second, and third generation hybrids, 
-&c., cumbersome and confusing, while the corresponding Mendelian 
‘symbols, F1, F2, F3, are awkward typographically and have little meaning 
for the general reader. Both are essentially misleading, in that they leave 
out of account the biological difference between the first, or F1, and later 
generations. And the matter is emphasised thus :— 
“First Generation Differs Widely in Character from Second and 
Following Generations, and the Two Classes Should be Distinguished by 
More Exact Names, In Order to Avoid Confusion.” 
He proposes that in future the two classes shall be distinguished by the 
names “‘ Conjugate ” and “ Perjugate ” hybrids. 
But what is the matter with the familiar terms, Primary and Secondary 
hybrids? The essential difference between the two classes has long bee? 
understood, and the term secondary is used also to designate the later 
generations. It is remarked that the term perjugate for this class “seems 
appropriate because the nuclear elements represented in the second and 
later generations of a hybrid may be said to have passed throngh con~ 
