322 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A curious malformation of Cattleya labiata is sent from the collection of 
H. H. Scott, Esq., Tynemouth, in which the lip is divided to the base, and 
the usual rich colouring absent from the inner adjacent margins of the two 
divisions. These divisions clearly represent the two petaloid staminodes, 
unattached to the median petal, which latter is nearly abortive, being only 
represented by a small petaloid growth, situated in the angle between the 
lateral stamens and the staminodes—its normal position. The flower is the 
terminal one in a raceme of three, the others being normal. 
Another curious malformation is sent from Glasnevin by Mr. F. W. 
Moore. In both flowers of the inflorescence the dorsal sepal is like the 
petals, though a little narrower, and the lateral ones are nearly as broad, 
more or less folded longitudinally, yellow along the centre and veined like 
the lip, which latter is normal in shape and colour. The flowers were 
precisely the same last year, so that the peculiarity appears to be constant. 
A plant of the beautiful Cattleya x Choris in the collection of Hamar 
Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent, is now flowering with eleven blooms 
on one spike, as we learn from Mr. Hamilton. It is a hybrid from C. 
Bowringiana ? and C. maxima ¢, and was described at page 339 of our 
first volume, so that it has probably now reached its normal development. 
A fine example of Odontoglossum grande with two flowers fused together 
side by side is sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., of Stone. 
Both flowers are quite perfect. A fine flower of Vanda teres candida is also 
sent. It is very light in colour, but not pure white. 
A flower of Cyprepedium insigne, sent from the collection of R. Ashworth, 
Esq., Newchurch, near Manchester, has the front of the lip covered with 
wart-like protuberances, some of them almost spine-like, giving it a most 
curious appearance. Six others on the same plant are normal in character. 
OBITUARY. 
THE Rev. Charles Samuel Pollock Parish passed away in his sleep, at 
his residence, Roughmoor, Somerset, on October 18th, at the age of 
seventy-five years. His name will be familiar to all our readers in 
connection with Burmese Orchids, and a few particulars of his career will 
be interesting. He took his degree of B.A. at Oxford in 1841, and eleven 
years later he was appointed Indian Chaplain at Moulmein, Burma, and at — 
once commenced the work which has made his name famous. Reichenbach 
observes that in 1859 Sir William Hooker acknowledged the receipt of 
some very interesting plants from him, and Dr. Lindley spoke very 
