AUGUST, 1907.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 263; 
EPIDENDRUM BELIZENSE. 
ANOTHER interesting Epidendrum of the Encyclium section can now be 
cleared up. As long ago as July, 1889, a plant was received for identifi- 
cation from Messrs. J. W. Steel and Co., of Chigwell, Essex, with the 
information that it had been received with some plants of Brassavola 
(“Lelia’’) Digbyana. It was seen to be near E. alatum, Batem., but no. 
name could be found for it. The plant was kept, and has since flowered 
periodically. It now proves to be E. belizense, Rchb. f., a species. 
described in 1877 ‘Linnea, xli. p. 78), from the collections of John Day,, 
Esq., and W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. Reichenbach described it as: 
allied to E. ionosmum, Lindl., and the flowers as like those of E. 
aromaticum, Batem., but larger, and olivaceous with some purple stripes. 
and spots on the lip. An attempt to trace this plant led to the discovery 
of a drawing (Day Orch. Draw. x. t. 16), and a careful painting with 
analysis ofa single flower agrees exactly with Messrs. Steel's plant. Mr. Day 
has recorded on the drawing: ‘“ Imported from Belize in 1864,” and thus 
the country also agrees. This drawing has been authenticated by Reichen- 
bach himself. There is in the Herbarium a dried specimen of a plant: 
which flowered at Kew in April, 1864, which is probably a form of the same 
species, though the sepals and petals are rather shorter. The country is 
not known, and on the sheet Reichenbach has written “ confer E. oncid- 
ioides,”’ but it does not agree with Reichenbach’s plant of that name. The- 
flowers of this species are smaller than in E, alatum, Batem., but the- 
rather elongated sepals and petals, and obtuse undulate front lobe of the 
lip indicate this as the true affinity of the plant. The flowers are about 14 
inches across, the sepals and petals dusky brown, and the strongly three-- 
lobed lip yellowish white, with some short purple lines at the base of the 
side lobes and on the disc of the front lobe. It grows a little over a foot 
high. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
OvonxrocLtossum X ASTARTE.—A hybrid raised in the collection of De- 
Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks, from O. Harryanum ¢ and 
O. tripudians 3. Itisasmall plant, producing at present a two-flowered 
raceme. The form is said to be somewhat poor, the segments being” 
rather narrow, and the petals standing forward at an angle of 35° to the 
flower, but the lip is a fine feature. The sepals are brown, with yellow 
tips and two bars that do not extend to the margin, and the petals are 
similar with the addition of some violet-purple, shaded into the basal 
marks. The lip has a white ground, but the lower two-thirds is heavily 
Spotted with deep lilac, which almost suppresses the yellow crest, and the: 
