252 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AUGUST, 1910. 
as almost to reach the ground. These are generally six or eight feet long, 
bearing large and handsome flowers three inches across, and varying in 
colour from orange to red, with deep purple-red spots. I measured one 
spike, which reached the extraordinary length of nine feet eight inches, and 
bore thirty-six flowers, spirally arranged upon a slender thread-like stalk. 
Specimens grown in our English hot-houses have produced flower-spikes of 
equal length and with a much larger number of blossoms.” 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A FINE spike of Odontoglossum xX Crawshayanum (Hallii x Harryanum), 
combining well the character of its parents, is sent from the collection of 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, by Mr. Stevens, who calls 
attention to the curious fact that all the stigmas have gone black, or rather 
dark brown. One flower had been fertilised, but gone off, and Mr. Stevens 
asks whether there can be any connection between the two circumstances. 
We do not remember seeing such a case before, and should be glad to know 
if any of our readers can suggest an explanation. The flowers seem perfect 
except for the discoloration of the viscid matter which covers the stigma. 
A curious freak of Paphiopedilum xX Maudie is sent by Messrs. Sander 
and Sons, St. Albans, which apparently consists of a single sepal, the 
lower one—two petals, the lip, and three stamens; the staminode and dorsal 
sepal being apparently absent. The staminode, however, has reverted to 
an ordinary anther, which is the really interesting feature of the flower, 
while the dorsal sepal is divided, one half being united to the upper margin 
of one petal, and the remaining half to the other. The flower has a very 
droll appearance, and it requires a very slight stretch of imagination to 
compare the lip and petals to the head and ears of a donkey, the latter 
particularly well developed. 
A remarkably fine flower of Cattleya granulosa Schofieldiana is sent 
from the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Teignmouth, which measures over 
5% inches from tip to tip of the petals. Both sepals and petals are heavily 
blotched with purple brown, while the lip is well developed, rosy purple, 
and bears very numerous papilla. A flower is also sent from a plant 
purchased as a hybrid from. Lelia crispa x Leliocattleya callistoglossa. 
It is about as large as Lelia crispa; the sepals and petals are suffused with 
lilac, and the lip slightly three-lobed, crisped, with the base of the front lobe 
dark purple, shading off to nearly white with some rosy veining in front. 
The pollinia are somewhat unequal, so that the parentage is probably 
correct. 
Lzuia IrHone.—Another flower from the batch of seedlings obtained 
from Lelia purpurata alba crossed with the original Lzliocattleya Lucia— 
