58 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1913. 
International Horticultural Exhibition held at Chelsea in May last, and 
received an Award of Merit (O.R., xx. p. 194). It is a very handsome 
hybrid, the flowers being of excellent shape, and the sepals and petals deep 
rosy lilac, while the broad undulate lip is well crisped, and the colour rich 
crimson, with some yellow on each side of the throat and some darker lines 
at the base. As will be seen by the figure, reproduced from a photograph 
by Mr. F. Waldock, the plant bore ten flowers, and produced a fine effect. 
Leliocattleya Gladiator is derived from Cattleya Mossie, C. Warscewiczil, 
and Lelia purpurata, and one can hardly conceive a more promising 
combination, the parent species being among the most popular of garden 
Orchids. 
ONCIDIUM CARDIOCHILUM. 
A VERY interesting Oncidium was included in the group exhibited by 
Messrs. Sander & Sons at the Royal Horticultural Hall, on November 5th 
last. On comparison it proves to be O. cardiochilum, Lindl. (Fol. Orch., 
Oncid. p. 27), which was based upon wild specimens collected in New 
Grenada by Purdie, and in Guatemala by Skinner, Lindley placed it in 
his section Pentapetala macropetala, and described it as ‘“‘a fine species, 
with a singularly entangled branching devaricating panicle. Flowers as 
large as in O. rupestre or Odontoglossum hastilabium. The Guatemalan 
form has a much thinner panicle, but does not seem to be different other- 
wise.” The species does not appear to have been figured, and I can find no 
evidence of its previously having been in cultivation. It has a large lax 
branching very flexuose panicle, with numerous flowers about 14 inches 
across. The sepals and petals are brown, and acuminate, and the lip 
yellow, broad, and very deeply pandurate, with a rather elongated, some- 
what tubercled crest, while the column wings are practically obsolete. It 
agrees best with the New Grenadan form of the species—the one sketched 
by Lindley on his Herbarium sheet, which may be regarded as the type of 
the species. Messrs. Sander are not quite sure whence they obtained their 
plant. R. A. ROLFE. 
ARACHNANTHE MOSCHIFERA.—Under the title “‘ An Extraordinary Orchid” 
the Strand Magazine for December illustrates a flower of this remarkable 
species. The photograph was sent by Captain H. L. F. Vanger, 
Weltevreden, Java, who remarks: ‘“ Although one would imagine this 
to be a big spider or scorpion, it is a photograph (three-quarters of the real 
size) of the flower of the Scorpion-Orchid—an Orchid that even here in 
Java is not very common.’ We may add that the species is a native of 
Java, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, and the name ‘‘ Scorpion Orchid’”” 
is said to he the one by which it is known to the natives. 
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