38 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, IgIo. 
times up to the waist and an occasional hole over one’s head. The swamp 
is filled with low, slow-growing, hard wood trees, the tallest not over 
twenty feet high, and the plants many of them not more than a foot above 
the ground, with occasionally one at the top of the trees. We were in there 
fifteen days ago, and the sight was simply gorgeous. 
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HYBRIDIST. 
OponToGLossum x HiLpa.—An interesting hybrid raised in the collection 
of John S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishops Waltham (gr. Mr. Kench), 
from Odontoglossum xX Coradinei: Crawshayanum @? and O. Pescatorei 
Mossie ¢, and fairly intermediate in character. The ground colour is 
white, with large purple blotches on all the segments. The sepals and 
petals are most like those of the seed parent in shape, but rather broader, 
while the lip is strongly pandurate, but much narrower than in O. Pescatorei. 
The column wings are broad and slightly denticulate. It flowered for the 
first time in December last. 
L&LIOCATTLEYA CINNOMAX.—An interesting hybrid, raised in the 
collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Chamonix, Teignmouth, from Leelia cinna- 
barina ? and Cattleya maxima ¢. It is most like the former in shape, but 
has rather more membranous flowers, and a larger, rather more open, crisped 
lip. Three forms are sent, two having light buff yellow sepals and petals, 
and a yellow lip, strongly veined with crimson, while the other shows the 
Tosy mauve colour of the Cattleya parent ona light yellow ground, and a 
little more purple suffusion on the front of the lip. The cross was made in 
June, 1902, and the seeds sown in May following. The first seedling of the 
batch flowered in December, 1908, and others are now in bud. 
OBITUARY. 
SIR CHARLES STRICKLAND.—An enthusiastic Orchidist has passed away in 
the person of Sir Charles Strickland, Bart., of Hildenley, Malton, who died 
on the last day of the old year at the age of go. How long ago Sir Charles 
began to cultivate Orchids we cannot say, but he had been a gardener from 
boyhood, and we know that Orchids and bulbous plants were among his 
chief hobbies. We never had the pleasure of seeing his collection, but 
from correspondence we should judge it to have been of an old world kind, and 
we well remember a desire he once expressed for some plants of Epidendrum 
varicosum, which he wished to cultivate because of their fragrance. He 
grew a good many of what may be termed old-fashioned plants, and among 
them numerous Bulbophyllums and Cirrhopetalums, and one of the first- 
named plants of C. ornatissimum was acquired by him at an auction sale 
for the price of fourteen guineas. He was successful in grcwing a number 
of kinds which are usually accounted difficult, particularly Cattleya citrina, 
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