THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



EVENTS OF 1901. 



In glancing back at the events of the past year we again find evidence of 

 steady progress. Perhaps the most striking event was the introduction by 

 M. Warpur of Phaius tuberculosus, a plant which had been known to 

 science for about eighty years, for the last twenty of which another plant 

 had been doing duty in our collections. The commotion made by this dis- 

 covery will be fresh in the minds of our readers, and we need only refer to 

 the history of the question and figure of the plant which was given in our 

 February issue (p. 41). The introduction of Cynorchis purpurascens by the 

 same collector is also an event of some interest, for it is a handsome thing, 

 which seems to thrive well at Kew. It is another Madagascar plant, and 

 was originally described with the preceding. Dendrobium Ashworthise is 

 an interesting species from New Guinea, at present imperfectly known. 

 There is very little else in the way of imported plants to record, but 

 allusion may be made to a list of ten novelties recently described in the 

 Kew Bulletin by Mr. Rolfe, and noted at page 339 of our last volume. One 

 of these was Aeranthes caudata ; and a second species, A. ramosa, also- 

 flowered at Glasnevin, and was noted at page 352. Odontoglossurm 

 maculatum Thompsonianum is an exceptionally large variety of this well- 

 known species, which was figured at page 337. Stanhopea connata and 

 Schomburgkia Thomsoniana are two interesting re-introductions which 

 have flowered during the year, and whose history has been given in our 

 pages. 



Hybrids. 

 It is when we come to speak of hybrids that novelties become common, 

 and the number seems to increase year by year. Among the more striking; 

 may be mentioned the two handsome hybrids from Lselia Digbyana, Lselio- 

 cattleya X Maronse (figured at page 329) and L.-c. X Edgar Wigan, the 

 brilliant little Sophrolselia X Gratrixise, S. X Valda, and S. X Orpeti, 

 Odontoglossum X Braeckmanii and its variety Crawshayanum, Epicattleya 

 X Orpeti, Dendrobium X Ellisii, D. X Mantini, Phragmipedilum X 

 suave, Laelia X Diana, Brassocattleya x nivalis, which must be extremely 

 near the natural hybrid B. X Lindleyana, &c. A hybrid from Cattleya 

 Rex has now appeared and is known as C. X Clymene, besides which C. X 

 fulvescens and C. X Clarkise have also been described in: our pages. Lselio- 

 cattleya is represented by L.-c. X Agnes, X Alberti, X Clytie, X Diogenes, 

 X Hamiltoni, X Issy, X Vinesiae, and X Wilsonis (figured at page 371). 

 Lastly among Paphiopedilums may be mentioned P. X Eos, X Kubele,. 

 remarkable for having five species in its ancestry, X Rappartii, X Rolfei 

 (figured at page 305), x Yanneri, and X Youngije. We cannot give a. 

 complete list, but records of others will be found in. our reports. 



