12 ae) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
C@LOGYNE LAMELLATA, Rolfe.—A native of New Hebrides, received 
through Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, from an unknown corre- 
spondent, who flowered it in August last. The flowers are pale greenish 
white, with a white lip, which bears numerous rows of corrugated keels. 
It is the second species known from New Hebrides.—Kew Bulletin, 1895, 
MAXILLARIA Mooreana, Rolfe.—A pretty little species belonging to the 
M. grandiflora group, but with considerably smaller flowers. It was intro- 
duced from Guatemala by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., who flowered it in 
April, 1891. The flowers are cream-coloured, with seven maroon-purple 
stripes on each petal, and a densely farinaceous lip narrowly margined with 
the same colour. It has also flowered at Glasnevin with Mr. F. W. Moore, 
after whom it is named.—Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 36. 
ANGR&CUM SMITHII, Rolfe.—A small leafless species, which flowered at 
Kew early in 1894, and again during the present year. It was sent by: 
Consul C. S. Smith, of the Kilimanjaro Delimitation Commission, growing 
upon the branch of a tree with Angraecum bilobum var. Kirkei. It bears 
numerous racemes of small white flowers.—Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 37. 
FROST AND ORCHID FLOWERS. 
Mr. Lusk, of The Dell, Woking, writes to us that he has now in 
perfect flower Odontoglossum Rossii majus with eight blooms, and Oncidium 
cucullatum with two blooms, which were exposed to three degrees of frost 
on the morning of February 8th. The greenhouse was fifty-two degrees on 
the night previous. To buds of Odontoglossum crispum, on the other hand, 
the frost was fatal. 
[The note is interesting, but we are not at all surprised to find that 
these two species are so hardy. Both are strictly high Alpine plants, and 
we have little doubt that where they grow the temperature sometimes falls 
below the freezing point. It would be interesting to hear of any other 
species which have borne frost without injury.—Ep. ] 
PHALAZENOPSIS PARISHII VAR. LOBBII. 
The charming little Phalenopsis Parishii, a native of Burma, has long 
been known in cultivation, and now evidence comes from two different 
sources that its very distinct Himalayan variety, Lobbii, has again appeared. 
It was discovered exactly half a century ago by Thomas Lobb, when 
collecting for Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, though it was not 
described until many years later, after the introduction of the Burmese 
form. It appears to have been in cultivation in 1871, when Reichenbach 
described it from the collection of J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham (Gard. Chron., 
1871, p. 802). The two agree in habit and structure, but are remarkably 
distinct in colour. The typical form, which was noted at p. 165 of the last 
