THE ORCHID REVIEW. 99 
A very curious flower of Odontoglossum crispum comes from the 
collection of J. Wilson Potter, Esq., of Croydon, in which the petals are 
united to the dorsal sepal almost to the apex, and thus pulled completely 
out of their normal position. It is the apical one of a raceme of ten flowers. 
A normal flower is also enclosed, a very pretty white form with a few small 
bright chestnut spots on the lip. 
About foo fine plants of Lycaste Skinneri are now flowering very finely 
in the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, 
cultivated in yellow sandy loam, which evidently forms a highly suitable 
material in which to grow them. They are grown in 6—8in. pots, and in 
one case two pseudobulbs bear as many as 27 flowers. 
Baron Sir H. Schroder, it is said, intends to send a selection of his 
beautiful Orchids to the Hamburg Exhibition in May, sufficient to form a 
group 55 square yards in dimensions. 
A very fine, brightly-coloured form of Dendrobium nobile comes from the 
collection of Edward Hopper, Esq., Riverside, Morpeth, presumably out of 
one of the recent importations which have given so many fine closely-allied 
forms, some of which are known under the name of D. n. giganteum. 
A two-flowered raceme of the beautiful Lelia x Latona has been sent 
from the collection of T. W. Thornton, Esq., Brockhall, Weedon. It is 
the form raised in the collection, described at page 150 of our last volume, 
and on comparison proves identical with that raised by Messrs. Veitch. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x COOKEANUM, 
A SECOND plant of this interesting natural hybrid has now appeared, which 
enables the doubts about its parentage to be set at rest. It was originally 
described from a single plant which appeared in the collection of Malcolm C. 
Cooke, Esq., Kingston Hill, to which an Award of Merit was given by the 
Royal Horticultural Society on November 14th, 1891. It came home with 
O. blandum, and was doubtfully suggested as a natural hybrid between that 
species and OQ. triumphans. The second plant was exhibited by Messrs. 
Hugh Low and Co., Clapton Nursery, on February 9th last, as O. X Valen- 
tinei, and though not absolutely identical is clearly a variety of the preceding. 
This particular plant came home with O. gloriosum and O. triumphans, 
and a careful comparison reveals such an unmistakable combination of the 
characters of these two species as to leave no doubt that it is derived from 
them. It has the general shape of O. gloriosum, but modified inthe direction 
of O. triumphans. The markings also- approach the former, though the 
colour much more nearly resembles the latter. It is very distinct and pretty. 
