62 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM x WATTIANUM HARDYANUM. 



This remarkable variety was exhibited by Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, 

 Staines, at a meeting of the R.H.S. on January 14th, under the name of 

 Odontoglossum X Wattianum Hardy's var., and received a First-class 

 Certificate. It bore an inflorescence of 26 flowers, ten being on two short 

 lateral branchlets. It was purchased at the Owen Sale in April, 1895, and, 

 curiously enough, has not previously bloomed in the collection. It is one of 

 the original plants, and was exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. at the 

 Temple Show, in 1893, when it received an Award of Merit. It is remark- 

 ably different from the original form, having much broader sepals and petals, 

 with much darker, heavier blotching. The sepals measure 1^ inches long by 

 8 lines broad, and bear two very large, blackish brown blotches, with a few 

 smaller ones. The petals are rather smaller and less heavily marked, and 

 the stalk of the lip is shorter and broader, the limb three-quarters of an 

 inch broad, and bearing one very large blotch and a few smaller ones, and 

 the crest consisting of a pair of tall toothed keels with a few smaller ones 

 on either side. The characters of O. Lindleyanum, though less pronounced 

 than in the original form, are very marked in the crest and column. The 

 history of the hybrid has already been given (viii. p. 299), when it was also 

 pointed out that the two parent species grow together in the neighbourhood 

 of Yaramal, and that the hybrid had been artificially raised by Mr. 

 Crawshay. 



R. A. Rolfe. 



NOTES. 



Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 

 Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during February, on the nth and 

 27th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o'clock 



Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 

 be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on February 6th and 20th. 

 The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to 

 inspection from 1 to 3 p.m. 



A flower of Paphiopedilum X Allamanum is sent from the collection of 

 E. J. Lovell, Esq., to illustrate the lasting properties of the hybrids of 

 P. Curtisii, having been out for about fifteen weeks. It is from a very 

 vigorous plant, one of the spikes having two flowers. 



Cattleya Loddigesii is really a grand thing when seen several plants 



flowering together at mid-wniter, the delicate colour In-in^ so pleasing and 



