THE ORCHID REVIEW. 363 
Wageneriana, Megaclinium falcatum, Pleurothalhs Grobyi, P. ornatus, 
P. Roezlii, Physosiphon Loddigesii, and Sarcochilus Hartmanni. The flower 
of Pleurothallis ornata, remarkable for its fringed sepals, is shown magnified 
-eight times, and the concluding note points out that “an aluminium watch 
maker’s glass, to be held in the eye, is a valuable help to the appreciation 
of the beauty of small flowers, as well as for the detection of nascent 
fungoid, and insect plagues. This valuable paper should be read in the 
original by all lovers of these interesting little plants. (We are incebted to 
the Royal Horticultural Society for the loan of the two blocks which 
illustrate this paper). 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
L#.10-cATTLEYA X HamitToni.—A very distinct and pretty hybrid, 
sent from the collection of Sir James Miller, Bart., Manderston, Duns, 
N.B., by Mr. Hamilton, with the recorded parentage, Cattleya bicolor X 
Lelia Dayana. Two distinct forms are sent—a twin-flowered scape of each 
—but they agree in having the small, rounded side lobes so characteristic of 
hybrids from Cattleya bicolor, and in other respects they are intermediate 
between the two parents. The finest form has a well-expanded flower, 
measuring five inches in expanse across the petals, which organs are 
-over an inch broad. The colour of the sepals and petals is dark rose-purple, 
while the front lobe of the lip, the isthmus, and a broad band extending to 
the base of the lip, are very dark purple-crimson, and the side lobes pinkish 
white inside and light rose outside. The sepals and petals of the other are 
much paler, and have more of the shape and texture of L. Dayana, while the 
side lobes of the lip infold and clasp rather more than half the column. The 
plants also flowered a year ago, for at page 348 of our last volume there is 
a record of “two forms of a pretty hybrid from Cattleya bicolor and L- 
Dayana” from this collection. They are now sent to us with a request for 
a name, and as Mr. Hamilton has been for years a highly successful grower 
of Orchids, we suggest the above name as eminently suitable. 
HOW SOME ORCHIDS THRIVE. 
In Trinidad Diacrium or Epidendrum bicornutum grows readily upon the 
rocks at the sea side, exposed to full sea breeze under a blazing sun when but 
slightly shaded. In the experimental station this plant is somewhat diffi- 
cult to grow, but is fairly managed by imitating the natural conditions. This 
plant transplanted to the Grenada Gardens, some 80 miles N.E. of Trini- 
dad, grows luxuriantly wherever placed with the greatest ease. The common- 
est of our woodland Orchids, Oncidium ampliatum, fails to thrive in our 
