176 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JunE, t907. 
bays in extent, alike excellent for culture, quality, and arrangement, which 
deservedly gained a Gold Medal. It was especially rich in fine Odonto- 
glossums, which almost compel a detailed notice. Two which gained 
First-class Certificates were O. crispum xanthotes, White’s var., with very 
broad white segments, each bearing a few orange-yellow blotches, and 
O. c. solum, a neat form, having white sepals and petals, and a lip 
almost wholly dark ruby-purple, forming the strongest possible contrast—a 
quite unique variety. Other noteworthy varieties were the richly-coloured 
O. c. Sandere, O. c. Prince of the Asturias, and O. c. Lord Cromer (two- _ 
richly-blotched forms obtained by crossing a good blotched form with O. c. 
Graireanum), and O. c. Beauty, a much spotted form. The hybrids 
included O. X splendidissimum (Pescatorei xX ardentissimum), a large 
heavily spotted form closely resembling the former in the shape of the lip, O. 
x. Prince Edward of Wales, O. xX Cooksoniz (x ardentissimum X 
percultum), bearing a close spike of thirteen flowers, with rosy ground 
colour, richly blotched with purple, O. X Lawrenceanum splendidum, O. 
x Phedra (Hallii x Pescatorei), a pretty light yellow blotched form, most 
like the latter in the lip, O. X ardentissimum Kaliston, and the Earl, two 
finely spotted forms, a fine dark O. x Fascinator, O. x Wilckeanum Miss 
Louisa Fowler, bearing two spikes of large primrose yellow flowers blotched 
with brown, O. X excellens, O. X crispo-Harryanum, O. X mirum 
magnificum, a peculiar yellow form of O. x loochristiense, and O. X 
Prince Albert, with reddish flowers, tipped and margined with white. 
Among the species were O. ramosissimum, O. Edwardii, O. cordatum, and 
O. c. aureum, O. polyxanthum, and O. Pescatorei var. Princess, a fine 
white. Cattleyas were excellent, and included a fine mass of C. Mossi 
with over 100 flowers, some choice white forms, some excellent C. Mendelii, 
C. Skinneri, C. Schroedere, C. x Kienastiana, and C. citrina. Other’ 
choice things noted were some good forms of Lzlio-cattleya Canhamiana, 
Brassocattleya Mrs. J. Leemann var. Rajah, a very fine form, Dendro- 
bium thyrsiflorum almost? covered with bloom, Zygopetalum rostratum, 
Miltonia levis, a fine example of M. Warscewiczii, some good M. vexillaria, 
two fine examples of Odontonia x Lairessee, Cymbidium Huttoni, C- 
insigne, Renanthera Imschootiana, Vanda.ccerulea, Oncidium Gardneti, 0. 
Marshallianum, and O. Harrisonianum, the green Lycaste Locusta, Lb: 
gigantea, Sobralia macrantha Kienastiana, Lelia tenebrosa, a nearly white 
L. purpurata, and a pretty little group of Cypripedium bellatulum arranged 
in a little dell. The most remarkable of botanical Orchids was a fine plant — 
of Bulbophyllum Ericssoni bearing two umbels of eight and nine flowers; 
these being arranged in a circle, with the dorsal sepals piled up in the centre 
like a Chinese pagoda. Others were, the rare Malayan B. orthoglossu™ 
(Kranzl.), Palexia maculata, a light-green form of Catasetum trifidum 
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