FHE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vou. SLX, | DECEMBER, fort. [No. 228. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
AT the R.H.S. meeting held on November 7th last another remarkable 
generic hybrid appeared, being exhibited by J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., 
South Woodford, under the name of Odontocidium Fowlerianum. It was 
derived from Odontoglossum cirrhosum crossed with the pollen of Oncidium 
Forbesii, and well combines the characters of its very diverse parents. It 
bore a spike of six flowers, the sepals and petals being oblong-lanceolate, 
barred with red-brown on a light yellow ground, and the lip broadly 
pandurate, and bright yellow with some chestnut markings in front. A 
Certificate of Appreciation was awarded. It has evidently not yet reached 
its full development, for both parents have a paniculate inflorescence, and 
it will be interesting to see what it is like when the plant becomes strong. 
Seedlings were recorded two years ago (O.R., xvii., p. 207), and we ‘shall 
now hope to see this Oncidium united with the large-flowered Odonto- 
glossums of the crispum set, for O. cirrhosum, though an excellent parent, 
has very narrow segments. 
The other day we picked up a number of the. Journal de la Société 
Nationale d’ Horticulture de France, and observed that at a recent meeting 
Certificates of Merit were given to the four following Orchids: Cattleya 
Pluvidse (Lueddemanniana X aurea), C. Liberté (labiata x gigas), C. 
Austerlitz (Triane X aurea), and Cypripedium Jeanne-Héléne (insigne 
Sandere xX Lawrenceanum Hyeanum). All are primary hybrids, and all 
have long been known under other names. The first was described as long 
as 1884, under the name of Cattleya Kienastiana, of which C. Pluviédse can 
at best be only a variety, while the others bear the same relation to 
Cattleya amabilis, C. Raphaeliz, and Cypripedium Eucharis respectively. 
We had hoped that the publication of the Orchid Stud-Book and the Rules 
of Horticultural Nomenclature adopted at Brussels would have imposed 
some check on the manufacture of synonyms, for it is now generally agreed 
that all hybrids obtained from successive crossings of the same two 
species shall be regarded as forms of the same. Varietal names can be 
added to any that are distinct enough. 
