May, 1915.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 155: 
says briefly: ‘‘ Lip (?) apparently saccate, as preserved coffee-brown, much 
darker than the shale, a little over 12 mm. long; no venation visible.” 
The object is said to have all the appearance. of being the lip of a 
Cypripedium, showing a strong callus around the lateral sinuses, and 
even, by a dark shade, some indication of the margin of the sterile stamen. 
Scattered over the surface are round subhyaline spots, which are supposed 
to represent the work of some insect. Comparison with living Cypripedium 
flowers appeared to confirm the identification. On the other hand, it appears: 
very unlikely that a Cypripedium lip would be separated from the rest of 
the flower and preserved in this manner. Mr. Cockerell thinks we can 
say with certainty that the object is neither a fruit nor a leaf, but we are 
not satisfied that the figure shows what is really the lip of a Cypripedium, 
in spite of a certain resemblance, and we should like to know what it was 
associated with. 
The evidence for the existence of Orchids in a fossil state was 
summarised at p. 129 of our seventeenth volume. 
ODoNTOGLOSsUM PR#&VIsUM.—Two more seedlings of the batch of 
O. Lindleyanum X gloriosum (see page 101) are now flowering at Kew, 
and show rather more of the O. Lindleyanum character, the inflorescence 
not being paniculate, while the blotches on the segments are fewer and 
larger in size. They agree with the earlier one in shape and in the 
cirrhate column wings. We have since discovered a second record of a 
natural hybrid between these two species. Ina group of Orchids exhibited 
by M. Ch. Maron at the Exposition held in May, 1911, at Ccurs-la-Reine, 
we find included among a number of Odontoglossums an unnamed natural 
hybrid of Odontoglossum gloriosum and Lindleyanum (Journ. Soc. Nat. 
France, 1911, p. 320). It would be interesting to know if the plant still 
exists.—R.A.R. 
Oncipi1um MARSHALLIANUM VAR. RossENDALE,—At the meeting of the 
Manchester Orchid Society, held on April 15th last, an Award of Merit 
was given to Oncidium Marshallianum var. Rossendale, which was 
exhibited by R. Ashworth, Esq., Ashlands, Newchurch (gr. Mr. Gilden) 
A three-flowered spray has been sent by Mr. Ashworth, together with a fine 
example of the type. In the var. Rossendale the blotches on the petals are 
suffused into one large chocolate-brown blotch, which occupies fully half 
their area, and there is a crimson-brown blotch in front of the crest of the 
lip. The ground colour of the flower is of an exceptionally deep yellow, 
and it is one of the darkest and most richly-coloured varieties that we have 
Seen. Mr. Ashworth remarks that it flowered out of plants imported 
about two years ago.—R.A.R. 
