■3 1 8 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Mr. Balmforth. There is not a trace of brown anywhere about the flower, 

 all the markings which are brown in the type being here of a deep yellow, 

 about twice as dark as th2 ground colour, so that the markings are well 

 defined. It contrasts very effectively with the typical form. 



A good form of Cattleya X Hardyana is also sent. Itis from one of 

 eight plants purchased at the Sale Rooms last year as C. Dowiana aurea, 

 and illustrates once more the unexpected way in which this beautiful natural 

 hybrid appears. The flower is rather small at present, because not yet 

 fully established. 



A beautiful hybrid from Laelia purpurata 2 and Cattleya Aclandise $ is 

 sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, by 

 Mr. Stevens. It has the expanded shape of the latter parent, and measures 

 6^ inches across the flower. The sepals and petals are rosy lilac in colour, 

 the front lobe of the lip crimson-purple, and the side lobes lilac, lined with 

 purple, while on the centre of the disc occurs a light yellow elongated blotch. 

 The front lobe of the lip is if inches broad, and the rounded side lobes are 

 rather longer than the column. A similiar hybrid flowered with Messrs. 

 Duval last year, and was exhibited under the name of Lselio-cattleya X 

 purpurato-Aclandiae (O.R. ix, p. 338). 



In the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden for August, 1902 (iii, pp, 

 I 45- I 47) is given a note and figure of a fine specimen of Oncidium Baueri, 

 which has flowered in the New York Botanical Garden. The species is a 

 native of the West Indies, and was obtained by a collector of the Garden 

 in Porto Rico, its present condition being due, Mr. Nash, the head gardener, 

 remarks, to " two or three years of greenhouse culture. It is suspended from 

 the roof at the west end of the house, its numerous flowers, yellow barred 

 with brown, hanging in graceful panicles. There are five of these clusters, 

 the shortest with a length of 4 feet 3 inches, while the longest measures 

 12 feet 6 inches ; the total length of the five panicles is 35 feet 8 inches. 

 This same plant bore but a single cluster last year, which was between four 

 and five feet long." 



A list of the species and hybrids which flowered in the collection of the 

 late H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, during last July, appears in the 

 Bulletino delta R. Societa Toscana di Orticidture for August (p. 255), the total 



An illustration of the fine group of Orchids exhibited by Messrs. Sander 

 & Sons at the R.H.S. meeting at Holland House, Kensington, on June 

 24th last, has just appeared in American Gardening (xxiii, p. 593, fig- 125). 

 It is reproduced from a photograph. 



