THE ORCHID REVIEW. I 
A very remarkable abnormal form has flowered in the collection of W. 
M. Appleton, Esq., Tyn-y-Coed, Hill Road, Weston-super-Mare, of which 
we have received two flowers and a photograph. One flower alone is normal, 
the other five in each case having the two petals transformed into lips, 
which stand forward and clasp the normal lip, except at the apex. The 
staminode and stigma are both smaller than usual, and the two anthers 
completely obliterated. The sepals are normal. It will be interesting to 
observe if the character is constant. Mr. Appleton is inclined to attribute 
it to the plant being rather pot-bound. 
Another curious abnormal form has appeared in the collection of H. 
Tate, junr., Esq., Allerton Beeches, Liverpool, in which the lower sepal is an 
exact reproduction of the dorsal one, both in size and colour. Both flowers 
on the plant show the same peculiarity. 
The above varieties do not exhaust the list, especially among the spotted 
forms, several of which have received distinctive names, though their 
characters do not seem to have been very exactly recorded, and in some 
cases not at all. Further, we have reason to believe that in one or two 
cases they exist in different collections under different names. These, 
however, must be left for the present. Possibly if the material comes to 
hand we may be able to revert to them on some future occasion. Two or 
three other yellow forms have also received distinctive names, though we 
do not know in what respect they differ from varieties mentioned above. 
Some of these varieties are still very rare, though in the case of a species 
so easily propagated they are not likely to remain so long, and a collection 
of the more distinct ones in flower together would be a very interesting 
sight. 
CATTLEYA x O’BRIENIANA. 
Information about this very pretty Cattleya comes to light very slowly, 
but that now to hand places its origin in a totally new light. M. A. A. 
Peeters, of St. Gilles, Brussels, has flowered a plant out of an importation 
of C. dolosa, Rchb. f., from the province of Minas Geraes, Brazil, which 
is certainly identical with that introduced by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., 
some five or six years ago. That originally flowered at St. Albans in 
December, 1889, and a year later it received an Award of Merit from the 
Royal Horticultural Society. And from inquiries made I am inclined to 
think it came either with C. dolosa or C. Loddigesii, or both—at all events, 
I am told that the last named has been received from the same region. 
When originally examining it, from flowers alone, I found so many points 
of resemblance to C. Loddigesii that I thought it must be a peculiar variety 
of that species, but I now believe it is a natural hybrid between C. Lod- 
digesii and C. dolosa. It is about intermediate in habit and stature, some 
