144 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, rort - 
flower, chiefly hybrids, though the majority were over for the season. 
C. insigne and its hybrids were well represented. We also noted a plant of 
the interesting C. Harrisianum virescens in bud. 
The remaining divisions included several features of interest, and first we 
may mention a little batch of the allied Dendrobium infundibulum and D. 
Jamesianum flowering together, the best distinguishing feature between them 
being in the bracts, those of the latter being more strongly covered with black 
hairs, though there are also slight differences in the shape and colour of the 
flowers. We noted also the chaste Ceelogyne cristata alba, the rare C. 
sparsa, Cattleya citrina, and Eria stricta, with Ceelia bella in bud. Among 
the Ceylon plants we noted the rare Eria braccata, and others. 
The collection is very varied, and includes a considerable number of 
botanical Orchids, in which Mr. Flory takes great interest, and of which a 
large number pass through his hands, as well as of the more showy species 
and hybrids to which the establishment is primarily devoted. 
COCHLIODA FLORYI. 
A VERY interesting Cochlioda has just Howered in the establishment of Mr. 
H. A. Tracy, at Twickenham. Mr. Tracy obtained an importation of 
Cochlioda Neetzliana from Peru, through Mr. Kromer, and when the plants 
began to flower it was found that a lot of C. rosea were among them, and. 
now one of quite intermediate character has also flowered, of which we have 
received the inflorescence. At first I suspected it might be a second plant 
of the rare C. miniata, L. Lind. (Lindenia, xii. t. 562), described as a natural 
hybrid between C. Neetzliana and C. vulcanica, but on careful comparison 
it proves to be different, and no C. vulcanica have appeared in the 
importation. I believe it to be a natural hybrid between C. Neetzliana and 
C. rosea. The flowers are most like the former in colour, being cinnabar- 
red with a yellow crest, but the sepals and petals are much narrower. The 
modified structure is clearly in the direction of C. rosea, and the white 
anther recalls the latter very strongly. We thus have pretty clear evidence 
that the two species grow together, and also hybridise. The flowers of C. 
Floryi are nearly 14 inches in diameter, and the sepals are lanceolate, and 
subacute, and the petals elliptic-oblong, rather shorter, and considerably 
broader. The lip is over } inch long, and strongly 3-lobed, the front lobe 
being broad and much dilated, the side lobes nearly orbicular, and the crest 
yellow. The column is clavate, 5 lines long, with a pair of broad entire 
lateral wings and an upper minutely denticulate wing, the anther being 
white. It would be interesting if our hybridists would cross the two species 
together, and let us know the result. Seedlings between C. Neetzliana and 
€. vulcanica are, we believe, already in existence. RA. RP: 
