THE ORCHID REVIEW. 305 
CORYANTHES MACULATA VAR. VITRINA. 
Our present illustration represents the remarkable Coryanthes maculata 
var. vitrina, Rolfe, which was described a little over a year ago (supra, iii., 
p: 240), on its appearance in the establishment of Messrs. Sander and 
Co. It has now flowered in the collection of Dr. Hodgkinson, The Grange, 
Wilmslow, Cheshire, to whom we are indebted for the photograph here 
reproduced. The flowers are almost self-coloured, not spotted, as in the 
type, the sepals and petals being light greenish-yellow, the hood and 
column a little paler yellow, and the rest of the lip a semi-transparent 
shade of very pale yellow with a slight dash of palest green. The name 
was given in allusion to its glassy appearance. It was imported from 
Central America. Dr. Hodgkinson remarks that on first opening it was 
Fig. 15.—CORYANTHES MACULATA VAR. VITRINA. 
; being e jed like a bat’s 
a beautiful object, owing to the lower sepals being expande i like au 
lled up and assumed the appearance 
wings, but after a few hours these ro : 
ig that of a ripe pear. 
The odour is peculiar, beit 
seen in the photograph. 
i : the flowers are rather fleeting, 
and as 
Like their allies, the Stanhopeas, 
iff cee gi salth, they are not s 
the plants are often found difficult to keep long in hea : 
i rchids are more remarkabD! 
much grown as they might be, though no Orchids are more pees 
1 are decidedly handsome, the beautiful C. 
structure, and some, at least, ; ve 
Dr. Hodgkinson remarks that he finds th 
leucocorys, Rolfe, for example 
orys, Rolfe, for example. aa 
as they rapidly make new growt 
plants soon die if grown in the stove, 
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