110 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x VICTORIA MARIZA. 
Tuts curious species was introduced to cultivation soon after C. 
Chamberlainianum, to which it is nearly allied, and, indeed, for a time it was 
thought probably a variety of it, which, however, appears not to be the 
case. It is very similar in habit, but is a more robust grower, with a taller 
scape and differently coloured flowers. In both the leaves are oblong, and 
obscurely tessellated with two shades of green. The scapes are erect, and 
bear numerous broadly oblong, obtuse, conduplicate bracts, which, as well 
as the flowers, are developed in succession, the same scape remaining in 
flower for a long period, though generally only one or two flowers are 
open at the same time. In the present species the dorsal sepal is broadly 
elliptical-oblong, an inch long by nearly as broad, and light green with 
a cream-yellow margin. The petals are linear-oblong, much twisted, 
ciliate, about 1} inches long, and light green suffused near the 
margin with very light purple. The lip is oblong, subcompressed 
at the sides, 1} inches long, and very light green with a yellowish green 
margin, and the staminode ovate-oblong, subobtuse, hairy at the base, and 
the colour olive-green. As these characters have proved constant in a 
large number of plants it is evident that it must be considered a_ species 
distinct from C. Chamberlainianum, though nearly allied. It also isa 
native of Sumatra, though from another district, and was introduced by 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. 
R. A. ROLFE- 
AN AMATEUR’S NOTES. 
THE additions to my Orchids in flower for the present month number ovel 
a score, besides which some of those previously mentioned are still keeping 
up a succession of bloom, especially Ccelogyne cristata, Cattleya Trian®: 
Odontogl Rossii, Dendrobium nobile, which I consider as among t 
t this season 
he additions 
most valuable Orchids for keeping up a succession of flower a 
Dendrobiums just now occupy the first place, and among t 
I must enumerate the beautiful D. Devonianum, whose pendulous ston 
are literally wreathed with flowers, D. primulinum, moniliforme, i 
ferum, Jamesianum, and the beautiful D. x Venus, which I think is Y° 
unsurpassed among hybrid Dendrobiums. Cattleya Lawrencean’ bec 
put in an appearance, and two or three forms of Masdevallia Chimet@, bs 
some plants of Chysis bractescens are now at their best. This, T ee 
a very attractive Orchid when well grown, and its flowers are almost * 
ivory. make 
Eulophiella Elisabethz is now well in flower, and _ will evidently 
