158 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A very dark and heavily marked form of Odontoglossum X Denisone 
is sent from the collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on- 
Tyne. The sepals are dark, blackish purple, broken up witha few light 
yellow markings, and the petals are very handsomely blotched with the 
former colour. Two forms of O. X excellens are also sent, and a small 
form of O. crispum in which the blotches on the sepals and petals are 
aggregated together just above the middle. 
A very fine and brightly coloured form of Lelia Boothiana is sent from 
the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Chamonix, Teignmouth, which serves 
to remind us that for some reason this plant is not very often met with in 
first-rate condition, indeed it seems to be less common in cultivation than 
it ought to be, considering its beauty and distinctness. A flower of the 
handsome Odontoglossum sceptrum is also sent. 
Two very beautiful forms of Cattleya Schroedere are sent from the 
collection of W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., of Hessle, near Hull, by Mr. Barker, 
one of them having a particularly deep orange-coloured lip. This Cattleya 
is an extremely beautiful one, its delicate blush-pink flowers being very 
graceful in shape, and as fragrant as heliotrope. 
MOOREA IRRORATA, 
A FINE plant of this remarkable Orchid has just flowered at Kew, producing 
two spikes which bore respectively sixteen and eight flowers. It is part 
of the original Glasnevin plant from which the genus was described about 
eleven years ago (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1890, viii., p. 7), which, curiously 
enough, got into cultivation without any clue to its origin, except that it was 
purchased as Lycaste gigantea, which suggests for it a habitat somewhere 
on the eastern slopes of the Andes, somewhere between Ecuador and 
Venezuela. It is believed to have been introduced by Messrs. Shuttleworth, 
Carder & Co., for a fine leaf and inflorescence of the same species were 
found in a small collection of dried Orchids which was presented to Kew, 
but the specimen was unlocalized. The original spike bore thirteen flowers, 
and in March, 1892, it threw up two spikes, one of which was exhibited at 
a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, and was awarded a First-class 
Certificate. It was also figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, (1892, xi., p. 489, 
fig. 73), and Botanical Magazine (t. 7262). It is a noble and handsome 
‘Orchid, and bears two very broad plicate leaves at the apex of the pseudo- 
bulbs, and erect flower-scapes, about two feet high. These come up with 
and close to the sides of the young growths, both having separate basal 
sheaths. The flowers are about 2} inches in diameter, with the sepals and 
petals of a peculiar orange-brown shade except at the base, where they are 
yellowish white, and the lip light yellow, spotted with red on the front lobe 
