THE ORCHID REVIEW. 31 
We regret to hear ofthe death of Baroness Schroeder, The Dell, Staines, 
which took place on December 5th last. The deceased lady, who was a 
great lover of Orchids, was in her seventy-third year, and has not long 
survived the celebration of her golden wedding. The greatest sympathy 
will be extended to the Baron in his bereavement. 
The hybrids between Odontoglossum crispum and O. Edwardii in the 
collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard, which were noted at page 231 
of our seventh volume, are, we are glad to hear, still progressing satis- 
factorily. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x DICRANOPHORUM. 
A PLANT of this very rare natural hybrid has appeared in the establish- 
ment of M. Fl. Claes, Etterbeek, Brussels. It flowered out of an import- 
ation of Odontoglossum crispum, in which a few examples of O. trium- 
phans and O. Lindleyanum were also found, and M. Claes immediately 
recognized it is a natural hybrid between the two latter, owing to its inter- 
mediate character. Such a hybrid appeared in 1888, in the establish- 
ment of Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, and was described by Reichenbach as 
O. X dicranophorum, the name being given in allusion to the shape of the 
crest, which was said to resemble “an old-fashioned, two-pronged fork.” 
The author described it as conjecturally a hybrid, adding ‘‘ one cannot help 
thinking of Odontoglossum triumphans, notwithstanding the narrow floral 
envelopes, and in order to lessen one’s perplexity one may think of O. 
Lindleyanum.” The rest of the description confirms this view of its origin 
and its identity with the three other plants which have subsequently 
appeared. It is about intermediate in shape between the parents, and 
indeed might be passed over as a form of O. triumphans with narrow seg- 
ments by anyone who did not recognize its hybrid origin. It might be 
looked for with confidence wherever these two species grow together, and, 
now that hybridising Odontoglossums is being taken up, perhaps someone 
will attempt to raise it artificially. Its history has already been given in 
this work (vl. ii., p. 328). It will be observed that the above-mentioned 
importation affords further evidence that O. triumphans and O. crispum 
grow together in certain localities. 
RiAcR. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
ANGR&CUM HuMBLOTII.—Garden, 1900, lviii., p. 433, with fig. 
CaTTLeyA Dow1ana Rosita.—/Journ. Hort., 1900, xli., p. 573, fig. 148. 
CATTLEYA X ELISABETH®.—Lindenia, t. 721. 
CG@LOGYNE DAYANA GRANDIS.—Gard. World, 1900, p. 217, with fig. 
