56 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
small in Miss Wrigley’s photograph, many of the details come out very. 
clearly when magnified. 
HYBRID ODONTOGLOSSUMS. 
Continued from vol. viii., p. 301). 
ODONTOGLOSsSUM X LEPIDUM.—The identity of this Reichenbachian 
natural hybrid has hithérto been a matter of some uncertainty, owing to 
the absence of an authentic specimen, though, from the description, 
I previously placed it under O. x Lindleyano-luteopurpureum (Orch. -“ 
i., P. 333), which now proves erroneous, for Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., 0 
Heaton, Bradford, fortunately, possess an authentic plant, which has now 
flowered, and enables the point to be settled. The flowers sent _ quite 
_ intermediate between O. Lindleyanum and O. Pescatorei, which are 
evidently the parents, and as the hybrid was described in 1883, the name 
antedates both O. x stauroides and O. xX elegantius, which have this — 
parentage (see Orch. Rev., ii., p. 141). Reichenbach indicated the affinity 
with O. Lindleyanum, but gave no clue to the second parent. His 
description of the colour, however, is sufficiently accurate :—Flowers yellow 
at first, ultimately white with yellow edging; sepals with two or three 
cinnamon blotches, petals with but one; a similar spot stands on the lip 
before the keels, and the base shows some brown marbling. The hybrid 
was introduced by Messrs. Shuttleworth & Carder, and flowered in their 
establishment in 1883, and it is a fortunate circumstance that the plant has 
been taken care of, thus enabling its history to be completed. It is very 
difficult to identify some of these hybrid Odontoglossums from the descrip- 
tions. R. A. ROLFE. 
(To be continued.) 
CYPRIPEDIUM CALLOSUM ALBINOS. 
We have been fortunate enou 
“Albino” forms from amongst 
callosum received last summer, s 
C. c. Sandere, except that the 
than the clear green of the earl 
each petal are just tinged with purple. 
aureum, and exhibited it before the R.H. 
15th. The other was even more distinct, 
in every way to “ aureum,”’ 
typical callosum colour. 
plants have passed into th 
which is justly renowned fo 
our large importation of Cypripedium 
ground colour is decidedly yellow rather 
This plant we called C. callosum 
except that the pouch was of the ordinary 
r its Cypripediums. | Epwarp V. Low. 
gh to bloom two quite novel and distinct a 
S. Orchid Committee on January — 
being practically a similar flower 
This formed a charming contrast; and both : j 
€ collection of S. Gratrix, Esq., of Manchester, — 
ne Se ere Som eS 
omething like 16,000! The first is after a 
ler named variety, and the extremities of 
js To me bic 
