158 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (May, rors, 
CYMBIDIUM SEAMEW (I’Ansonii xX Parishii Sanderz).—Another fine 
hybrid, raised in the collection of Sir George L. Holford, which also 
flowered in March last. The inflorescence sent is arching, and has seven 
flowers, most like C. I’Ansonii in shape. The broad sepals and petals are 
pale yellow, suffused with rose, and the lip bears a few large crimson-brown 
blotches round the margin, and one central line in front of the very villous 
keels. 
MAXILLARIA ACUTIFOLIA.—A Maxillaria sent to Kew for determination 
by Messrs. Hassall & Co., Southgate, proves to be the above distinct and 
attractive species, which originally appeared in 1842. It was described. 
and figured by Sir William Hooker at t. 3966 of the Botanical Magazine, 
from a plant said to have been sent to the Royal Gardens at Kew from 
-Central America by Mr. Barclay, their collector, in H.M. Surveying 
Ship “Sulphur.” It was said to be allied on the one hand to M. 
tenuifolia, Lindl., and on the other to M. picta, Hook. It still remains 
rare, but in March, 1896, it was sent to Kew for determination by 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, with the remark that it had been in 
their houses for some years, and had now flowered for the first time. 
Nothing was known of its origin. It has also been sent from the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The flowers much resemble those of 
M. picta, the sepals and petals being deep yellow with some brown 
mottling, and the lip white with a few purple lines; the leaves, however, 
_are narrower and more elongated, and the pseudobulbs narrower. The 
column and anther case are deep purple throughout.—R.A.R. 
DENDROBIUM NOBILE PELORIATE.—Last year we figured from the 
-collection of F. H. Moore, Esq., Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, a remarkable 
form of Dendrobium nobile, showing normal flowers of D. n. Sanderianum 
-on one side of the bulb, anda peloriate form like D. n. Cooksonianum on the 
other (O.R., xxii. p. 137). A wish was expressed to know what the flowers 
were like next year. Mr. Moore now writes: ‘‘ The plant has flowered 
again, but normal in character.” The preceding year it showed no 
peculiarity, and other plants of the variety were normal, so that. this 
remarkable case of bilaterality remains unexplained. 
It- may be remembered that Mr. Moore then alluded to some 
seedlings raised from D. n. giganteum and one with the purple colour 
disposed in stripes and blotches on the back of the sepals and petals. 
The first of them is now blooming, and Mr. Moore sends a couple of 
flowers, which, as. he remarks, show a large and brilliantly-coloured form, 
‘but the abnormal colouring has not been transmitted. It would be 
interesting to hear what other seedlings are like. 
