JULY, 1910.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2t1 
rose-purple in colour. The lip is broad, the upper half deep crimson- 
purple, and the throat buff yellow. It may be described as fairly inter- 
mediate between L.-c. Clive and L.-c. Cornelia. 
FERTILISATION OF ANGULOA. 
AT page 192 of the June issue of the Orchid Review you remark that you 
cannot find any record of the fertilisation of Anguloa. In 1884, when at 
Sudbury House, Hammersmith, I carried out a host of crosses for the 
special pleasure and interest of the work. One was Anguloa Clowesii Xx 
Lycaste Skinneri. The capsule developed until it was quite twice as large 
as the flower, and Mr. Dominy, who had just been pensioned off by Messrs. 
Veitch, often said it “looked exactly like a large lemon.” At last, after 
nine months’ growth, and while still green, it opened, and, to our surprise, 
was quite empty. Anguloa virginalis x Lycaste cruenta did just the same 
thing. Anguloa Ruckeri x Lycaste costata did not develop like the others, 
but after the flower faded the pod began to damp off, as if it objected to 
L. costata, and Mr. Dominy concluded that the cross would always be too 
wide. Anguloa uniflora x Stanhopea tigrina would not take at all. Mr. 
Peacock regarded such crosses as nonsense, and, as I was averse to spoiling 
good flowers for nothing, I gave up all further attempts. 
W. GOsTLING. 
Horfield, Bristol. 
[The remark about the fertilisation of Anguloa, to which attention is 
called, was a brief reply to a question respecting the structure of the flower 
and the use of the mobile lip. It did not occur to us that the absence of 
the words “in a wild state’”’ would lead to misconstruction, or we should 
have inserted them. Mr. Gostling’s letter, however, brings out some 
curious additional facts, for, of course, we were aware that hybrids of 
Angulca have been raised. Curiously enough, a successful cross between 
Anguloa and Lycaste has been recorded (see O.R., xvi. p. 92), under the 
name of Angulocaste Bievreana. On September 3rd, 1895, M. de Biévre, 
gardener to the late King of the Belgians, pollinated a flower of Anguloa 
Ruckeri with Lycaste Skinneri, and the capsule matured by the following 
May, when the seed was sown on the compost of the mother plant. In 
1897 a few little seedlings were detected, one of which flowered for the first 
time in July, 1903. In June, 1906, a plant bearing thirteen flowers received 
a Certificate of Merit at Brussels. A painting was made, and a coloured 
plate published (Trib. Hort., 1907, p. 516, t. 57). The plant is said to bear 
five or six flowers on a bulb, which are very fragrant, like those of the 
Anguloa parent. Prof. Cogniaux, in describing the plant, remarks that 
although M. de Biévre has no doubt about the facts stated, he himself 
thinks that the flower must have been previously fertilised by the plants’ 
