396 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
It may be added that no specimens were submitted which would have 
enabled the doubtful point to be determined. Also that according to a 
sketch sent for determination by Mr. A. S. Hitchcock, with notes of colour, 
the variety albopurpurea—presumably the type—flowered at the Manhattan 
Botanic Gardens, Kansas, in July, 1891, plants having been collected at 
Grand Cayman in the previous January. 
It should also be added that the plant shown by Sir Trevor Lawrence 
appears to be the variety minor, which also flowered at Kew about the 
same time, aud was figured for the Botanical Magazine. Both had the 
smaller flowers with very undulate, bright canary yellow sepals and petals, 
and a purple lip, as described by Mr. Strachan. The variety albopurpurea 
agrees better with Reichenbach’s original type. The Kew plant is one of 
those sent home by Mr. Fawcett, and has only now flowered for the first 
time. Sir Trevor’s plant may also be out of the same batch. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A FINE flower of the handsome Sophrocattleya x Chamberlainii triumphans 
(Cattleya x Harrisoniana 2 X Sophronitis grandiflora 3) is sent from the 
collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, m.p., Highbury, Birmingham, 
by Mr. Mackay. The flower is much larger than that of the type, which was 
originally described in these pages in 1898 (p. 270), as it measures 3} inches 
from tip to tip of the petals. The colour of the sepals and petals is brilliant 
carmine-rose, or almost cerise, and the small, trilobed lip is yellow, with the 
upper haif of the front lobe crimson-purple, and the side lobes margined 
with a rather lighter colour. The plant. produced four flowers on two 
growths, and must have been a brilliant sight. 
A flower of the pretty little Lzlio-cattleya x prestans-bicolor is also 
sent, which, as Mr. Mackay remarks, is simply a form of L.-c. X Binoti. 
Whether the plant is from the same source as the one exhibited by Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, and noted on page 316, we do not know. The rounded 
side lobes are in this case nearly as long as the column, and the upper half 
of the lip very deep purple crimson, which colour extends to the base by @ 
broad band along the centre of the disc. The sepals and petals are narrower 
than in L. pumila, and light rose-purple in colour. 
Other handsome things sent are Cattleya x Mantinii nobilior, a beauti- 
ful raceme of five flowers, and Lelio-cattleya x Duke of York, the latter 4 
richly coloured hybrid derived from L.-c. x elegans and Cattleya X Brymer- 
iana, and thus containing four species in its ancestry. 
A flower of the handsome Cattleya x Imperator is sent from the collec- 
tion of Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen, by Mr. Young- 
