234 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
interesting article on the “structure of an Orchid lip ” (vol. viii., p. 75) 
refers to vol. ii., p. 358, which describes a flower of C. labiata with three 
uniformly shaped petals, three perfect-anthers, and no stigma ; it also refers 
to vol. iii., p. 366, where a similar flower is described. On the other hand 
you have described flowers with petals transformed into lips, like the beauti- 
ful Cattleya Mendelii abnormal pictured at vol. vii., p. 241. The form 
described in the REviEw which comes nearest resembling the flower of 
which I have sent you a photograph, is one described under Cattleya 
Mendelii Janus, which has one sepal and a petaloid lip, or rather an organ 
with one side having the characters of the lip and the other those of a petal. 
The photograph enclosed shows the same thing, the petal part on the right 
having been made wavy by the undulations on the other side, but otherwise 
having the uniform colour of the other petal, light magenta. The left half 
of the lip had all the markings of the lip of a C. Warscewiczii, including 
the yellow eye, making it Cyclops-like. My flower differs, however, in 
other respects ; it has two sepals and a petal, besides the malformed lip. 
The column is very short and club-shaped, as the photo shows, and I saw 
but one small anther-sac. 
It seems that nearly all the malformations in Cattleyas reported in the 
REVIEW have been of Cattleya Mendelii or C. labiata (vera). In this 
instance the particular C. Warscewiczii had bloomed three or four seasons 
before this in my house and had always borne perfect flowers, and it is the 
only one out of a dozen plants from the hybrid district, imported at the 
same time, which has shown any malformation. The plant is in robust 
health, and the flowering pseudobulb was one of the largest among about 
a hundred plants. 
A. W. HoIsHoLtT. 
Stockton, California, U.S.A. 
[A very curious flower, the lip seemingly half petal and half lip; 
probably an accidental occurence.—Ep.] 
ORCHIDS GROWING ON PALM-STEMS,. 
SEVERAL Orchids are known to grow on Palm-stems, but not often are 
their flowers taken for those of the plant on which they grow. This, how- 
ever, seems to have been the case with the dwarf West Indian Thrinax 
Morrisii, respecting which Mr. Morris (Kew Bull., 1891, p. 131) remarked :— 
“I was told that it produced a very pretty pink flower. This, when 
produced, proved to be an epiphytal Orchid, a species of Epidendrum, 
which attached itself to the stem of the small palm, and pushed its flowers 
through the fronds.” The Orchid was probably Epidendrum elongatum. 
