THE ORCHID REVIEW. 63 
- Great Bookham, was killed bya flash of lightning at Stormberg, S. Africa, 
on January roth. He was a member of the Cape Mounted Police. 
M. Georges Martin, the well-known French Orchidist has been 
nominated a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 
Mr. J. Mackay, sub-foreman in charge of the Orchid department 
at Kew, has been appointed Orchid grower to the Right Hon. J. 
Chamberlain, M.P., at Highbury, Birmingham. 
The Syren and Shipping for January 23rd contains an excellent portrait 
of Richard le Doux, Esq., of Marlfield, West Derby, the possessor of one of 
the noteworthy collections of Orchids in the Liverpool district, of which an — 
account was given at page 297 of our seventh volume. 
When writing the account of Lelia x Finckeniana to accompany the 
figure at page g of our last issue, we overlooked the fact that a second plant 
has appeared. It is in the collection of Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, 
Staines, and was described in 1895, under the name of L. X F. Schreedere, 
as recorded at page 43 of our fourth volume. 
With reference to the missing flower of the dimorphic Odontoglossum 
X Denisone, described at page 355 of our last volume, Mrs. Briggs-Bury 
writes that it was like the lower flowers on the spike ; but what is specially 
remarkable is that two flowers on a small side branch at the base of the 
spike (which had also been removed) were like the uppermost ones, SO that 
the dark flowers were in the centre of the spike. Last year there was only 
one dark flower, which was the second from the base. The future behaviour 
of this plant will be watched with interest. 
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A NATURAL HYBRID LYCASTE. 
A NOTE respecting the rare Lycaste lasioglossa appears in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for January 12th (p. 18), and it is there stated that :—‘* Some time 
880 we received a natural hybrid from M. P. Walter, Magdeburg, Germany, 
imported with Lycaste Skinneri, and which was evidently a natural hybrid 
between it and L. lasioglossa.” It would be interesting to know more 
about it, and whether the specimen was preserved. Natural hybrids are 
becoming a rather numerous class, and their study is attended with many 
difficulties, but I am trying to clear up their history and origin as far as 
Possible, and should like to know more about the present plant. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
