34 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
grandiflora 3, and the flower is about intermediate between them, both i 
shape and colour. A similar remark may be made about the plant itself, 
according to a note from Mr. Seden, who, it is hardly necessary to add, is. 
the raiser. 
Flowers of the beautiful Dendrobium Xx euosmum virginale, and of 
Cattleya X Pheidona are also enclosed, both of which have been previously 
tecorded in these pages. The latter is the reverse cross of C. x Dominiana, 
of which it may be considered a marked variety, differing in its beautifully 
veined lip, in which respect it shows the influence of the pollen parent, C. 
maxima. 
A fine form of Odontoglossum crispum, sent by Messrs. Charlesworth 
& Co., has very broad sepals and petals, which makes the flower almost a 
complete circle. The petals are pure white, but the sepals and lip have a 
few reddish purple blotches in the centre. 
At a meeting of the Linnean Society, held on December 1gth, Mr. R. A. 3 
Rolfe, A-L.S., gave an abstract of a paper entitled “A Revision of the genus 
Vanilla,” in which fifty species were enumerated, seventeen being new, in- i 
cluding five previously confused with older forms. They were described as 
tall forest climbers, some of them leafless, generally of rather local distribu- 
tion, though the genus was found almost throughout the tropics. Tropice 
America could boast 29 species, against 11 in Asia, and ro in Africa. SIX 
American species yield an aromatic fruit, and three are known in commerce, 
though only the Mexican V. planifolia was largely cultivated as an economic — 
plant. The author outlined the morphology and mode of fertilisation of the 
genus, together with its affinities and geographical distribution. Some 3 7 
the species were still imperfectly known, and it was even now uncertain 
which was the Peruvian plant mentioned by Humboldt eighty years ago @ 
yielding aromatic fruits. The paper was illustrated by a series 
drawings. a 
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A beautiful form of Cattleya Trianz has been sent by John S. Moss, Esq. 
of Bishops Waltham, the segments being broad and well shaped, and bee 
colour bright rose-purple, with a darker front lobe to the lip, anda bright q 
orange-yellow throat. It approaches the variety Atalanta. ¥ 
A leaf of Cypripedium x S$ dsiz, described at page 16, is now se08 
from the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., and, as suspected, shows a distinct” 
combination of the characters of C. venustum and C. purpuratum, te” 
characteristic markings of the former being especially prominent on theme 
upper surface, though somewhat modified by the influence of the other parents 
