May, 1912] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 143 
notes only record the name; no parentage or description being given, for 
the plant was not in flower. Since then the Tring collection has been dis- 
persed. Not knowing the parentage, it is difficult to say what cultural 
treatment it requires, but judging from the notes by Mr. Warren, he thinks 
it is hardly strong enough to produce a scape. 
We believe that the Tring plant came to Kew, where it still maintains 
its reputation of refusing to flower. It is believed to be a Brazilian species 
introduced by Dr. Gorton, at one time in business at Maida Vale, but has 
never been described. It apparently belongs to the L. crispilabia group. 
We hope that some one will succeed in flowering it and setting its mysterious 
origin at rest. KAR: 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A FLOWER of the remarkable Odontoglossum Memoria King Edward VII., 
to which a First-class Certificate was given by the Manchester Orchid 
Society on March gth last, is sent from the collection of J. J. Holden, Esq., 
Southport, by Mr. R. Johnson, who remarks that it was purchased as a 
seedling of unknown parentage, and is now flowering for the second time. 
The flower measures 33 inches from tip to tip of the petals, which latter are 
over It inches across, and well toothed, with one great solid claret-purple 
blotch, a little white at the base, and a white apex and margin. The sepals 
are similar in colour, but have rather less white, and the pandurate lip has 
a large violet-purple blotch in front of the yellow crest, the apex being 
white. The column wings are rather broad and slightly toothed. It is a 
magnificent thing. 
A flower of a remarkable peloriate form of Odontoglossum crispum is 
‘sent from the collection of Walter Cobb, Esq., Normanhurst, Rusper. The 
lip is broadly triangular in shape, and pure white, the crest being reduced 
to a pair of narrow purple lines at the base, with a tinge of yellow between 
them. The petals are broad, and white, and the sepals have two or three 
purple spots near the base. Three or four flowers were peloriate, but the 
rest were normal, so that the scape had a very striking appearance. 
A distinct and curious hybrid Odontoglossum has been sent from the 
collection of Sidney F. Jackson, Esq., Danehurst, Epsom, but unfortunately 
the parentage is not known. The characters of O. triumphans, however, 
are written large over the column wings and lip, and there can be no doubt 
that it or one of its hybrids was one of the parents. The flower is yellow, 
with a strong suffusion of rose and some minute dots on the sepals, and a 
paler suffusion in the petals. The lip is broad, with a large red-brown blotch 
in front of the crest. One cross was made from O. loochristiense with a 
pink crispum, having some small spots in the petals, and this may repre- 
sent the parentage. 
