THE ORCHID REVIEW. 67 
with red-brown reticulation, and the dorsal sepal is tinged with yellow in 
the centre, giving a very pretty effect. The history of this hybrid is given 
at page 359 of our last volume. 
Three more numbers of the interesting little Dictionnaire Iconographique 
des Orchidées of Messrs Cogniaux and Goosens have been issued since our 
note at page I appeared. We have not thought it necessary to enumerate 
the plants figured in this work in our list of ‘‘ Orchid Portraits,” for if the 
plates are kept arranged alphabetically (as the authors intend) it is quicker 
to turn to the work itself. The plant figured as Oncidium calopogon, can 
scarcely be the one so named by Reichenbach, and we take it to be a form 
of O. X Gardneri, Lindl. We may also mention that Vuylsteke, not 
Rolfe, should be cited as the authority for the name Odontoglossum X 
Rolfez. 
The object of our monthly list of ‘‘ Orchid Portraits,” to which allusion 
was made in the preceding paragraph, is to collect together the scattered 
figures which appear in the various horticultural works, and by means of 
the alphabetical index at the end of each volume, it is possible to trace 
quickly where figures of different Orchids may be found. 
A series of over a dozen distinct forms of Dendrobium nobile have been 
sent by Messrs. B. Hurst & Son, Burbage Nurseries, Hinckley. They are 
selected from a series of forty, from one of the importations of Messrs. F. 
Sander & Co. from the Lang Tang Mountains. They vary greatly both in 
size and colour, and afford a good idea of the variation to which this 
species is subject. One flower, which is either D. n. Sanderianum, or 
barely distinguishable from it, is about the darkest form which we have yet 
seen. A very pretty, much-spotted form of Odontoglossum x Anderson- 
ianum, and a good Ccelogyne cristata, are also enclosed. 
Three fine and beautifully developed flowers are sent from the collection 
of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., of Streatham, namely Dendrobium nobile elegans, 
D. n. burfordiense, and D x Ainsworthii roseum, the latter a charmingly- 
coloured variety. The first-named has petals an inch broad, and all are 
excellent examples of good culture. 
The collection of Orchids formed by the late Henry Mason, Esq. of 
Bankfield House, Bingley, near Bradford, is to be disposed of It contains 
a number of choice Odontoglossums, as Q. crispum Stevensil, Ort. Charles- 
worthii, O. c. Triane, O. c. giganteum, O. Chestertoni, &c. Particulars 
will be found in our advertisement columns. 
We have received from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, examples 
of several beautiful hybrid Phalcenopsis, raised in the establishment. They 
