ANUARY, 1907.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 7 
came, it may safely be affirmed, from the mountains named Pena Bonita, 
Pelycadero, La Granja (Sucre Viego), Campo hermoso, &c., a large tract 
that has belonged since 1898 to the Adonado Rubber Co., Ltd.’’ The mean 
temperature of these mountains is given as follows (and is said to be 
persistent throughout the year) :— 
Altitude. Night. Day (in shade). 
At 2000 métres (Cold temperate zone), 10°C. (50°F.) to 202C. (68°F.). 
i SAO" 5 (Cold zone), eG. GOR) 3, 16 Cc Ga" Fi). 
» 2800 yf os Ds 5°C. (41°F.) ,, 15°C. (59°F.). 
» soe = (Very cold zone), oC. (32°F .). », 12°C. (64°F.). 
‘‘It is towards an altitude of 2400 to 2500 métres that the finest 
varieties are usually found. The climate is fairly mild, and insects are 
numerous. Of late years crispum has been sent from the mountains of the 
cold and very cold zones, where there are no insects. This accounts fora 
scarcity of varieties and a scarcity of fecundated flowers. Last year, on the 
contrary, a somewhat large quantity of fertilised flowers was found among 
the plants from the cold temperate mountains, a considerable number being 
of the finer varieties. At an altitude of about 2400 métres O. Adriane and 
O. Hunnewellianum are found.” 
The author makes some remarks about hybridisation, admitting the 
possibility that some of the spotted forms may be hybrids between crispum 
and Adriane, and he alludes to Andersonianum, Coradinei and Ruckerianum 
as species, though they are clearly natural hybrids, but this point may be 
passed over. The author concludes by saying that it is the Velez region 
** which has yielded, and will yield, perhaps for a long time to come, the 
best type of O. crispum,’’ including many specimens of roseum, and he 
finally remarks :—‘‘ I beg M. de Barri Crawshay to believe that I do not 
in the least impugn his good faith, but it is necessary, nevertheless, to 
explain the true state of the case. 
‘‘CYPRIPEDIUM REcoRD.—The Earl of Tankerville, at Chillingham 
Castle, has succeeded in flowering a Cypripedium, the result of crossing C. 
x Leeanum Clinkaberryanum and C. insigne Harefield Hall, in eighteen 
months from seeds. Mr. Hunter, the head gardener at Chillingham 
Castle, sends the record . ‘Sown May, 1905; flowered, November, 1906.’ 
and states that there can be no doubt about the identity of the fine hybrid 
just flowered, as but few were sown before that date, and none which could 
be confounded with the cross in question. Another plant of the same batch 
is about to flower, and it will probably be shown at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. The first to flower would have been shown but for 
the bloom sustaining an accident.’”—Gard. Chron. 1906, i. p. 385. 
