320 . THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcrosER, 1915, 
_ ORCHID SEEDLINGS.—The possibility of growing Orchid seedlings in an 
unheated house during the summer months is suggested by a note in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. In June last a new boiler was being installed in a 
block of houses at Warren House, Stanmore, and most of the seed-pots and 
stores were removed to a warm house in another range. A good number of 
seed-pots, however, with numerous young plants in various stages, from 
which a sufficient stock had been pricked off, were left behind, and 
remained in the unheated house till nearly the end of August, and it is said 
that not one of the little plants died, and all of them compared favourably 
with those that were removed to a warm house. They were presumably 
the usual Warm house things, but it is not stated what they were. 
LisTROSTACHYS Brownu.—A plant of this distinct Listrostachys has 
just flowered with Sir Frederick W. Moore at the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Glasnevin. It is a native of Uganda, and was collected at 3900 feet 
elevation in the Entebbe district by Mr. E. Brown, and described in 1906 
(Rolfe, in Kew Bull., 1906, p. 378). It belongs to the L. arcuata group, 
and is distinguished among its allies by its short, rather numerous leaves, 
and dense racemes, which slightly exceed the leaves in length. The spur 
is about } inch long, and so strongly curved that it points towards the apex 
of the raceme. The bracts are broad, and in the dried state the spike 
somewhat resembles a broad head of wheat. Mr. Brown remarks that it is 
a showy plant, growing in masses, and each growth usually producing two 
spikes. The leaves are about 2} inches long, and the flowers white and 
very fragrant.—R.A.R. 
ORcHIDs FROM WARRINGTON.—A hybrid Cypripedium sent from the 
collection of W. Bolton, Esq., Wilderspool, Warrington, was obtained 
from C. Curtisii x vexillarium, and has the general shape of the former, 
but the whole flower is much more suffused with purple, while the drooping 
petals recall C. vexillarium. The characters of the two parents are very 
well combined. Another cross in the collection has given a very curious 
result. C. insigne Oddity x Watsonianum (concolor x Harrisianum) has 
reproduced the curious peloriate condition of the former, having the petals 
ria tai into lips, though not clasping the normal lip quite so much. 
urious to see if other seedlings have the same character. 
dd., and always easily distinguished from S. oculata, Lindl. 
basal blotches occur in several species. 
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