114 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
M. Th. Franke has sent to Kew an authentic flower, stating that the plant 
was found in a importation of P. callosum, and that a second plant has now 
appeared in the same way. This of course fixes its habitat as Siam, and 
serves to confirm its identity. The history of the species has already been 
given (O. R., iv., p. 18), but its appearance can now be traced back to 
1889, for in January of that year a plant flowered at Kew which had 
passed as C. callosum until it flowered. Other plants have been 
obtained in the same unexpected way, quite recently one in the 
collection. of Capt. Law-Schofield, Rawtenstall, Manchester, but 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. have also introduced it in quantity. Its 
affinity is not with P. Lowii, which has far larger flowers and unmarbled 
leaves, but with the Bornean P. Bullenianum, which it resembles so closely 
in the flower as to have been taken for an aberrant variety of it. It is 
interesting to be able to clear up its history. 
The remaining figures represent the well-known P. callosum (fig. 20), 
with which the preceding was imported, and P. x siamense (fig. 1g), the 
interesting natural hybrid between the two others, which occasionally turns 
_ up in the same importations. Its history may be found in an earlier 
volume (vol. iv., p. 17). 
R. A. ROLFE. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
EPICATTLEYA X Orpeti.—This is the result of impregnating Cattleya 
amethystoglossa with the pollen of Epidendrum x O’Brienianum, and Mr. 
E, O. Orpet writes from S. Lancaster, Mass., U.S.A., that it ‘is now in 
bloom with us, a little under two years from fertilizing the flower. The 
plant is now about 16 inches high, with a scape about ten inches longer, 
the habit being that of an Epidendrum with the leaves a trifle longer, 
thicker, and broader, and with no trace of aérial roots. The flower, in size, 
equals that of E. radicans, and is exactly the colour of Masdevallia Lindenii, 
the red being eliminated. The lip is fringed and strongly three-lobed, and 
shows very little modification from the pollen parent. The pollen masses 
are two in number, and seemingly abortive. The scape has about six 
flowers and buds sparsely set at the top, and there are three growths, all of 
which are showing for bloom. Epidendrums of this reed-like section are 
lovers of sun. All that we have in summer here they will stand, but 
directly the Cattleyas are mixed in, the house requires shade, or the latter will 
_ Show signs of distress.” This interesting plant may bear the name of its 
raiser, and will probably be heard of again when fully developed. 
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