14 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
three mentioned in Mr. E. Bohnhof’s Dictionnaire (1895) from C. Boxallii @ 
and C. insigne Chantini 3, C. Boxallii g and C. Spicerianum 3, and from 
C. Haynaldianum ¢ and C. Spicerianum g. The Selenipedium is from 
S. caudatum roseum ¢ and S. X conchiferum g, and was raised by 
Messrs. Sander (O. R., I., p. 326). [Curiously enough, none of these is the 
original C. x hybridum, figured and described in November, 1875 (Fl. 
Mag., n. s.,t. 187) as a Veitchian hybrid, derived from C.barbatum ¢ and 
C. Stonei ¢. Soon afterwards it was described under the more suitable 
name of C. X euryandrum (Gard. Chyron., 1875, ii., p. 772), under which it 
is now known.—Ep. | 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
‘To be continued.) 
STANHOPEA WARDII VENUSTA. 
Two remarkably fine plants of Stanhopea Wardii have flowered in the 
collection of E. A. Bevers, Esq., of Oxford, of which photographs and 
flowers have been sent. They belong to Lindley’s variety venusta, char- 
acterised by uniformly deep orange-yellow flowers, the dark blotches on the 
hypochil having vanished. The best plant had three racemes, each bearing 
ten flowers, and the other two racemes with the same number of flowers. 
A third has also bloomed well. They were purchased last spring at a sale 
of plants, of the late Mr. Boton, of Tew Park, being turned out of a Vinery 
with various ordinary plants. If one may judge by their vigour, the situation 
must have suited them admirably. Stanhop are doubtedly very 
striking plants, and if well grown very floriferous, though the flowers are 
unfortunately rather fleeting. They are, however, included in many 
collections, and deserve a little more attention than they receive at present. 
BRASSIA LEWISII. 
Ir appears that this pretty little species, which flowered with Messrs. 
. L.. Lewis & Co., in 1893, is a native of the Amazon district, for a 
Brassia which has flowered in the collection of John W. Arkle, Esq., of 
West Derby, Liverpool, proves identical, and of this Mr. Arkle states that 
it was imported from the Rio Negro district with a lot of Cattleya luteola, 
C. Eldorado, and Galeandra Devoniana. The original record was :—‘ Its 
exact habitat is not known, but the plants were purchased from a man who 
collected them when searching for Cattleyas, and who has since died” 
(Supra, I., p. 199). This definite inf ion is very i ing. It is a 
graceful little plant, and Mr. Arkle remarks that the pseudobulbs are four 
inches long by one inch broad, and not thicker than a paper-knife. 
