204 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM WILLIAMSIANUM. 
A splendid form of this fine Odontoglossum has just flowered in the 
collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., at Highbury, near 
Birmingham, the raceme bearing eleven flowers, the largest measuring 
over 4+ inches in diameter, and the petals 13 inches broad. It bears a 
general resemblance to the well-known O. grande, but the petals are con- 
siderably shorter and broader, and the wings of the column linear and com- 
pletely incurved or hooked, as in O. Insleayi. It was described in 1881 
(Gard. Chron., 1881, ii. p. 134), by Reichenbach, who suggested that it 
might be a natural hybrid between O. grande and O. Schlieperianuim, 
though I confess that I am a little doubtful about this—at all events 
the evidence is not complete. True, it is said to have been imported 
from Costa Rica with the latter, but O. grande is a native of Guatemala, 
and I am not aware of any published evidence that it grows in the 
former country. Again, in O. grande the wings of the column are 
rounded or nearly orbicular, not a trace of which is discernible in O. 
Williamsianum—a fact which also proves that Williamsianum is not a 
variety of O. grande, as referred by Messrs. Veitch. It bears much 
resemblance to O. Schlieperianum, except in its more ample dimensions 
and deeper markings, the details of the crest and column being remark- 
ably similar ; except that the wings are longer, as in the South Mexican 
O. Insleayi. Whatever its origin—and it would be interesting to clear 
the matter up—it is certainly very distinct and beautiful, and usually 
flowers about this season of the year. 
ORCHIDS AT EAST SHEEN. 
In the collection of Sir F. Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (fully 
described at pages 783—8o of our first volume), a number of striking Orchids 
are in flower at the present time, and among them the remarkable Cypripe- 
dium bellatulum album, C. x Aylingii with two-flowered scape, C. X 
macropterum with spikes of three and two flowers, and two good plants of C. 
Stonei. C. Lawrenceanum and C. barbatum are flowering like weeds 
planted out in the Phalaenopsis house, and come in well for cut flowers. A 
plant of Selenipedium x Phedra bears a three-flowered spike, the petals 
being beautifully undulated and the colours delicate. A plant of Dendro- 
bium Bensoniz has nine dozen flowers on six growths, and one of D. Dearei 
73 flowers, a second being nearly as good. A very fine form of Lelia 
grandis bears a four-flowered raceme, while the common species are, as 
usual, well represented. The plant of Coelogyne pandurata maintains its 
reputation as one of the finest in existence, and this year bore two spikes of 
ten and nine flowers each. It is grown on a long raft. 
