40 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1913. 
petals, the spur of the lip, and even the column and the two clavate stigmas 
bright red in colour. The first of the batch to bloom is bearing a scape 
about half-a-foot high, with six flowers, and several lanceolate, acuminate 
leaves, 34 to 5 inches long by about half an inch broad, with a very 
undulate margin, and the colour nearly uniform olive-green. H. militaris, 
Rchb. f., is a native of Cochin China. The two other allies are H. 
rhodochila, Hance, a native of South China, and H. xanthochila, Ridl., a 
native of Penang.—R.A.R. 
ORC PORTRAITS. 
CATTLEYA DUPREANA THE DELL VAR.—Gard. Chron., 1912, ii. pp. 450, 
451, fig. 193. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CALLOSUM SANDERA@.—Journ. Hort., 1912, il. p. 565, 
with fig. : 
CyYPRIPEDIUM DEMETER.—Gard. Mag., 1912, p. 973, with fig. 
CYPRIPEDIUM ELATIOR.—Gard. Mag., 1912, p. 913, with fig. 
CYPRIPEDIUM HERA VAR. EuRYADES.—Gard. Mag., 1912, p. 968, 
with fig. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X LaTona.—Gard. Chron., 1912, il. p. 402, fig. 174; 
Gard. Mag., 1912, p. 940, with fig. 
CYPRIPEDIUM VIKING.—Gard. Chron., 1912, il. p. 463, fig. 201. 
LIssocHILUS ANDERSONII, RoLFE.—Bot. Mag., t. 8470. 
OpontTIODA LATONA FOWLER’S VAR.—Gard. Mag., 1912, p. 960, with fig. 
PHALZNOPSIS INTERMEDIA PORTEI.—Gard. Chron., 1912, ll. p. 455; 
fig. 193. 
SOPHRO-L#LIO-CATTLEYA THISBE.—Gard. Mag., 1912, p. 993, with fig. 
VANDA C@RULEA Lapy HoLForp.—Journ. Hort., 1912, li. p. 513. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
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requested to pe the n spe country or ~ entage of plants sent, An ADDRESSED postcard must be 
cers if a reply by post is desired (abrinad ao postcards shoudl be used), Subjects of special interest 
Il be dealt with in the body of the work 
-B.—The fifteen parts of an sun flower are disposed in five whorls, three sepals; 
three petals, one modified into a lip by the addition of two stamens from whorl 3 ; three 
outer stamens, one being the ordinary stamen of the Monandre or the staminode of 
Cypripedium ; ‘thr ee inner stamens, two forming the anthers of Cypripedium or the wings 
or teeth of the column of the Monandrze , and the third usually modified into the crests of 
the lip ; and three carpels, terminating above in the stigmas, one being modified into the 
routeliioh: the other two ae separate or confluent. 
H.C.A.— Lelia rubesc 
: G.F.S.—Catasetum CErstedii, Rcehb. f., Central America. Pleurothallis peduncularis, 
Lindl, Brazil. 
Ae C.—Cymbidium Winnianum, a hybrid between C. giganteum and C. Mastersii. 
The original record (C. giganteum x eburneum) is now known to be erroneous. 
Photographs received, with thanks.—W.J.P., J.T.B. 
_ Several notes are unavoidably postponed till next month, 
