74 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
name it in honour of Mr. J. R. Pitcher, Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S.N.A,, 
a most enthusiastic Orchidist. The flowers are equal to those of a good 
D. primulinum. Both sepals and petals are much like those of that 
species, as they are rather narrow and straight. The ligulate, blunt sepals 
are whitish, rosy, with fine purple tips. The petals are broader with a deep 
purple tip, and a broad, distinct, rosy mid line from the tip to the base. It 
is an exceedingly curious and rare fact, that the colours of the flowers are 
far deeper outside. The lip is very interesting. From a short stalk, green 
at the base, it is enlarged into a heart-shaped, semi-oblong, subacute body. 
This, however, is the outline after artificial expansion, and it answers well 
the outline of the lip, not of D. primulinum, but of D. nobile. Normally 
the lip is involute at the base and subacute before the apex, thus making 
the sort of a goitre with a flat surrounding margin. Its colour is light 
sulphur. The callous abrupt line in the middle of the disc before the base 
is whitish. The apex of the lip is purple, and there are dark purple, nearly 
parallel stripes on both sides of this callous part. Both sides of the surface 
of the lip are most densely covered with very short hairs. The column is 
small, green with semisigmoid wings at the sides of the anther, and witha 
linear purple tooth in the middle of the back. There is no little hollow to 
be seen at the base of the column. It may, however, appear in the estab- 
lished plant. The anther looks quite abortive. It is very thin, its upper 
part looking like a purple Phrygian cap that has been made of an insufficient 
quantity of cloth. The bulbs and leaves are said to be like those of D. 
nobile. I think Mr. Sander’s suggestion about the origin is quite right.” 
D. x P. Ro_re# (fig. 9).—Whether Messrs. Sander at once set about 
proving the parentage of the plant just mentioned is not quite clear, but in. 
1892 they flowered a hybrid raised fram D. primulinum ¢@ and D. nobile 
3, which they named D. x Rolfez (Gard. Chron., 1892, xi., p- 522); with- 
out any reference to D. x Pitcherianum. Two years later a plant flowered 
in the collection of Major-Gen. E. S. Berkeley, of Southampton, out of an 
importation of D. nobile, which was considered as a form of the same 
hybrid, and described as D. X Rolfez roseum (Orch. Rev. ii., p- 114); the 
eatlier D. x Pitcherianum being overlooked. Whether the original plant of 
D. X Pitcherianum still exists we do not know, and the type specimen is 
locked up in the Reichenbachian Herbarium and inaccessible, but the 
description of the disc is so characteristic that it is probably of the same 
origin. It cannot be said that the wild and artificially raised hybrids here 
figured are identical, but two or three other plants have since appearee 
having similarly marked characteristics in the lip and disc, and it seems 
probable that all are forms of one variable hybrid. Further materials are 
necessary before the point can be considered quite settled. 
D. NopiLe.—The remaining figures in the group are forms of D. nobile, 
