AUGUST, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 235 
recording the new “Odontioda Brindejonc des Moulinais” the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle remarks: *‘ The name might better be restricted to one of the three 
words used or some other name of a single word given.” We thoroughly. 
agree, though we say it in fear and trembling, for did we not once take a 
similar hint too seriously and act upon it ? though with results that were a 
little disconcerting. But the line must be drawn somewhere, and perhaps 
the writer felt that things had now reached the limit, and it was time to 
speak out. The incident is instructive, and should be read in connection 
with the ‘‘ Echoes of a recent discussion” in our January issue (pp. 21-24). 
We shall probably reach an agreement yet. 
ORCHIPLATANTHERA CHEVALLIERIANA. 
SIXTEEN years ago this interesting hybrid between Orchis maculata and 
Platanthera bifolia was recorded as British (O.R., v. p. 234), it having been 
found by Mr. Arthur Reid, on a large moor near Perth, among a profuse 
growth of the two parent species. Its history was then given in detail. It 
has now been tound in a hay-field, close to the edge of a copse, about two 
miles from Shepton Mallett, Somerset. The finder was Harry Stacy, a 
small boy, who recognised it as something unfamiliar to him, and gave it 
to Miss Baggallay, Elm Farm, Pilton, by whom it was sent to Kew as 
probably a hybrid between Platanthera bifolia and Orchis maculata, which 
are said to grow in the same field. It shows an unmistakable combination 
of the characters of these two species, the flowers being white and 
unspotted, but with two ample rounded side lobes to the lip, an elongated 
front lobe, and the spur nearly as short as in O. maculata, which it also 
approaches in the shape of the spike. It has very similar characters to the 
one previously mentioned, but is very different in colour from that figured 
by Camus (Monogr. Orch. Eur., p. 352, t. 23, fig. 743-745), which has lilac- 
coloured flowers, and a shorter front lobe to the lip, and thus more 
resembles the Orchis parent. It is an interesting discovery, and might 
€ncourage further search where the two species grow together R.A.R, 
HEXADESMIA MICRANTHA.— An Orchid sent to Kew last year from Cachi, 
Costa Rica, by Mr. E. Lankester, has just flowered, and proves to be 
Hexadesmia micrantha, a species which originally flowered with Messrs. 
Loddiges, of Hackney, in 1884, when it was described by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 
XXx., Misc. p. z). This plant is said to have been received from Guatemala. 
It is a small species, having short fusiform pseudobulbs, terminated by a pair 
of linear leaves some 2 or 2} inches long, and racemes of about the same 
length, with minute whitish flowers, and the disc of the somewhat three- 
lobed lip green. The genus is closely allied to Scaphyglottis, chiefly 
differing in having six instead of four pollinia. R.A.R, 
