THE ORCHID REVIEW. 95 
Medal for a good group, comprising Oncidium splendidum, Lycaste 
Skinneri, a fine specimen of Pleurothallis Roezlii with eight racemes, one 
bearing eleven of its remarkable red-purple flowers, Dendrobium speciosum 
Bancroftianum, Phaio-calanthe X Brandtiz (Phaius Wallichii ? x Calanthe 
xX Veitchi 3), six plants of Phaius X Marthe, Paphinia Randii, some fine 
forms of Cattleya Triana, a very fine form of Odontoglossum sceptrum, 
and a number of good Cypripediums, including C. Chamberlainianum, C. X 
Calypso with ten flowers, a very fine C. insigne, &c. 
Mr. J. Cypher, Cheltenham, showed two splendidly-grown Dendrobiums, 
to each of which a Cultural Commendation was given. They were D. x 
Ainsworthii roseum, a plant over two feet through and covered with 
flowers, and D. X splendidissimum grandiflorum, with pseudobulbs 33 feet 
long, and very well flowered. 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, staged an interesting 
group, containing the handsome Pescatorea Lehmanni, Ccelogyne cristata, 
C. sparsa, a well-flowered Lycaste fulvescens, and L. Skinneri, Platyclinis 
glumacea, Lelia glauca, some good forms of Cattleya Triane, Oncidium 
‘Warscewiczii, Cypripedium X Fitchianum, C. X vexillarium, C. X Sallieri 
aureum, C. X politum, and various other good Cypripediums. 
Messrs. Heath & Son, Cheltenham, sent a well-flowered plant of a fine 
dark form of Dendrobium nobile. 
DE NDROBIUM WARDIANUM. 
I SEND you two nodes of a flowering stem of Dendrobium Wardianum, to 
show how remarkably Orchid flowers may vary in size on the same plant 
and in the same season. I think this would have been material evidence if 
it could have been shown at a recent trial. I also think it is an additional 
proof, if one is wanted, how very much the system of giving varietal names 
to inconstant variations may be abused by Orchid growers. I might cut 
off the two lower flowers and sell this plant by sample for £2 or £3, while 
if F-cut off the two upper flowers it would be worth as many shillings, and 
yet in both cases the buyer would have bought the same plant. 
H. j. ELWEs. 
Colesborne, 
Gloucestershire. 
[This isa most remarkable example. The piece sent is the apex of a 
stem, with three nodes, the upper one being flowerless and the next having 
a raceme of two large flowers, and the lowermost another of two very much 
smaller ones. The large flowers measure 4} inches, from tip to tip of 
