May, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 159 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A FLOWER of the handsome Odontoglossum percultum Goodson’s var. 
(Rolfeze x Pescatorei Charlesworthii) is sent from the collection of H. F. 
Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney, by Mr. G. H. Day. The sepals and 
petals are almost uniformly violet-purple with lilac tips, and the apex of 
the lip white. 
A large and handsome form of Odontoglossam Wilckeanum is sent from 
the collection of Alwyn Harrison, Esq., Watford. The flower measures 
four inches from tip to tip of the petals, the latter being 1} inches broad, 
and well toothed. The colour is light yellow, with three large blotches on 
the sepals, and one on the petals with a few smaller spots. It is one of Mr. 
Bolton’s seedlings. 
Several handsome Orchids are sent from the collection of G. Hamilton- 
Smith, Esq., Finchley, by Mr. Coningsby. Leeliocattleya Merciana (C. 
amethystoglossa X L. flava) is represented by a seven-flowered spike, the 
flowers being cream-coloured, with a few purple dots at the apex of the 
petals, and the front lobe of the lip purple. A flower of Cattleya 
Dusseldorfii is from a small seedling obtained from the Westfield collection 
as C. intermedia White Queen x C. Mossiz Arnoldiana. It has blush 
pink sepals and petals, and the lip has a light purple blotch in front. There 
is also a fine form of Cattleya Mendelii with flesh pink sepals and petals, 
and the front lobe of the lip purple. Odontoglossum amabile Queen 
Alexandra crossed with a fine spotted crispum has yielded a hybrid of good 
shape, and very heavily blotched with claret-purple. The question of a 
suitable name is difficult in such a case, but Mr. Coningsby suggests that 
it might be considered a variety of O. amabile, as the additional amount 
of crispum influence introduced by the new cross is barely sufficient to con- 
stitute a new hybrid. Lastly may be mentioned a handsome seedling from 
O. crispum Britannia X O.c. Fortunatus, now flowering for the first time. 
The ground colour is suffused with rose, and both sepals and petals have 
a few large claret-coloured blotches, these being less confluent than in the 
seed parent. It is a seedling flowering for the first time. 
OponTiopa Cupip.—A very charming hybrid raised by Messrs. Arm- 
strong and Brown, Tunbridge Wells, from Odontoglossum ramosissimum 
crossed with the pollen of Cochlioda Neetzliana, and now flowering for the 
first time, with a three-flowered spike. The flowers have rather broader 
sepals and petals than the Odontoglossum, and are very undulate and deep 
-rose in colour, the three lobed lip being of similar colour, and the crest 
consisting of four parallel white keels. Mr. Armstrong states that the 
flowers showed the Cochlioda colour when first opening, but soon ee 
to rose. It should develop into a very striking thing. 
