254 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Roezl had most accidentally only introduced, if I remember right, 6,000 
plants at once, and those who had paid first good prices felt a well excusable 
regret. Where are they? Vadite.ad inferos. In those days Cattleyas were 
repotted as often as Coleuses, and they died, though not so quickly as 
Coleuses. I have, however, a letter from Mr. J. Miles, Lord Rendlesham’s 
gardener, who sent me in the autumn of 1875 the first flower expanded in 
Europe, far superior to my typical wild flower sent by M. Roezl, aud now 
by Mr. Sander. The plant has more slender bulbs and there appear to be 
usually two nearly equal joints, whereas in Cattleya Mossie I think them 
very unequal. The flower would appear to resemble most nearly that of 
Cattleya Warscewiczii. It has two bright-yellow eyes behind the anterior 
blade of fine purple. The superior part between the side laciniz appears 
to be quite or nearly free from brown. It has usually three flowers, now 
two. I hope the plant will now-a-days be kept, and enjoy a good reputation.’ 
—Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1882, xviii., P 457. 
This does not read at all like the description of a natural hybrid, and the 
plant has since been almost, though not quite, lost sight of. My own im- 
pression is that it is one of the forms of C. Lueddemanniana, but I hope to 
‘be able to examine it when next it flowers. 
RK. A. K. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
‘SEVERAL beautiful Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of R. 
Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch, Manchester, by Mr. Pidsley. O. X excellens 
‘Charlesworthii, obtained from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., has the centre 
of the petals and the lip white, the former with one or two spots, and the 
latter four or five in front of the crest. The rest of the flower is bright 
yellow, with two bars of confluent brown blotches on each sepal. O. crispum 
Trissie Ashworth, obtained from Mr. Bogarde, of Birmingham, three years 
ago, has the ground pure white and the sepals heavily blotched with clear 
light purple, each petal bearing about four similar small spots. The shape 
including the lip, very broad, and the latter has the three confluent cinnamon 
coloured spots in front of the crest, and many small spots near the 
margin. The petals are white and the sepals suffused with pink. It came 
from Messrs. Sander. The remaining one is a good white crispum, slightly 
tinged with pink on the lateral sepals, and the spots confined to the lip. 
How far these forms differ from some of those which have preceded them 
we cannot say, for the varieties of Odontoglossum crispum are becoming 
-almost innumerable. 
