190 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
. NOTICE OF BOOK. 
Sander’s Orchid Guide Book. ¥F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. Large 8vo., 
PPp- 339. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co. have now issued an Orchid Guide Book ‘of 
the ‘‘ best known species, varieties, and hybrids of Orchids in cultivation, 
their native countries, descriptions, seasons of flowering, best methods of 
cultivation, temperatures, &c.”” The arrangement is alphabetical, and the 
information is given in five parallel columns, containing the name, native 
country, brief description of flowers, season of blooming, and price; with 
a short, preliminary chapter on general culture, and further details under 
each genus. The hybrids are arranged at the end of each genus, in three 
columns, of which the first gives names and parentage, and the prices are often 
omitted. Turning to the popular genus Cattleya we find that the closely allied 
species of the labiata group are treated separately, but under the guttata group 
the authors have not emancipated themselves from the old nomenclature, for 
- we find Cattleya amethystoglossa given as a synonym of C. guttata Prinzii, 
instead of the other way about, as it should have been. A similar remark 
applies to Cattleya and Lelia Dormaniana, and various others. Cypripedium 
is retained ‘‘ for the sake of convenience,” but an outline of the four genera 
into which it is now divided is given, and under their recent names. At 
the end of the work is given an alphabetical list of hybrid Orchids, which is 
intended to be complete as far as possible, arranged in three tables :—1, 
name of hybrid, 2, of seed parent, and 3, of pollen parent, the information 
being repeated under each, but without further details. This is very useful, 
but we note that the hybrid between Cypripedium barbatum and bellatulum 
appears under six different names, and the record C. caudatum x leucor- 
thodum, ‘‘ Miss H. A. Roebling,” and in the very next line, “‘ Mrs. W. A. 
Roebling ” is a typeof a kind of duplication which might have been avoided 
with advantage. It conclusion we must add that the work contains a large 
amount of useful information to Orchid growers in very handy form. 
He THE HYBRIDIST. 
_PAPHIOPEDILUM X VANNERI.—A distinct and striking hybrid, raised in 
: the collection of the late W. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst, by | 
a ‘Mr. Robbins, from P. X Calypso Cooksoni ? and P. Chamberlainianum 
i g. The scape sent bears two flowers, which most resemble those of the 
pollen parent in shape and general character, though enlarged and modi- 
fied in colour and other details. The dorsal sepal is rounded, 14 inches 
broad, and very light whitish green, suffused with light shining brown to 
. iirgay the eee the petals Haslet, ae, inches Hones ciliate, and much | 
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