98 THE ORCHID REVIEIWV. 
name, comes from the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, 
measuring 3} inches across the toothed petals. The sepals are wholly 
brown except at extreme apex and base, and the petals very heavily marked. 
Odontogl x And i from the same collection, is also very 
fine, the segments being seven lines broad, and well blotched on a pure 
white ground. O. xX Wilckeanum splendens has the segments long and 
narrow, and the petals much undulate. The ground colour is white, and the 
large blotches deep red-brown. 
A large plant of the handsome Arachnanthe Cathcartii is now flowering 
in the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, bearing as many as ten 
racemes, with numerous flowers open at the same time. It is rare in 
cultivation, and does not always succeed as could be wished, but when 
grown properly is a very striking object. It has a rather rambling habit. 
The remarkable Poggio Gherardo variety of Cypripedium X Dauthieri 
in the same collection is also bearing eight flowers, and is really a beautiful 
object. The history of this interesting sport is given at page 20 of our 
second volume. 
A fine flower of Cattleya Trianz delicata has been sent from the collec- 
tion of John T. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool. It is from a plant 
imported a year ago, and the raceme bears three flowers. Another flower 
of the beautiful C. T. Arkleana, figured at page 81, is also enclosed, and 
shows precisely the same character as last year. 
Most forms of the charming little Cypripedium niveum are more OF less 
dotted with purple, but a flower sent from the collection of Colonel 
Marwood, of Whitby, by Mr. Horner, is an absolute albino, as there is not 
a speck of purple anywhere. It was imported about a year ag as C. 
concolor. 
We have received a splendid inflorescence of twelve flowers of Cattleya 
aurantiaca from the collection of E. A. Beveis, Esq., of Oxford, Sa 
one of six borne by the plant. The flowers are of the most brilliant 
orange-colour, and quite perfect. A complete account of this handsamy 
Species is given at pages 83 and g9 of.our last volume. Those who emt 
obtain the beautiful natural hybrid Cattleya x guatemalensis hol 
this species with C. Skinneri. 
Two very good forms of Cattleya Triane come from the same ol 
one fairly typical, the other a large delicate blush form, with purplish * 
pale margined lip, which may be referred to the variety Io. 
