SEPTEMBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 283 
thereon :—Oncidium Cebolleta, O. luridum, O. Papilio, O. iridifolium, O. 
stramineum, O. sphacelatum, O. Cavendishianum, Brassavola lineata, B. 
nodosa, Epidendrum atropurpureum, E. alatum, E. Stamfordianum, Laelia 
anceps, Dendrobium nobile, D. Dalhousieanum and D. bigibbum, and I 
have no doubt that, in time, I shall be able to establish a great many other 
species, though, doubtless, the shade-loving sorts might not do so well. 
Santa Lucretia, J. C. Harvey. 
Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
DENDROBIUM PIERARDII IN BURMA. 
**T aM sending you a photograph of Dendrobium Pierardii, which flowered 
on the 27th of May, 1906. Some of the stems are more than seven feet 
long, flowering in fascicles of two or three blossoms from each node, 
throughout the greater part of the length of the stem. Four of the stems 
had more than 120 flowers each. The total number of flowers on this 
Orchid amounted to 1,346. At the time of flowering the stems were leafless, 
but now each stem has put forth four or five new growths from different 
nodes. I have several plants of this species, but none flowered so profusely 
as the one photographed. I send this photo as it may be of some interest 
to you.” = eye) WW ORSLEY. 
Govt. High School, 
Akyab, Burma. 
[The photograph shows a remarkable plant, with numerous slender 
pseudobulbs, literally wreathed in flowers. It is in a basket, and appears to 
hang from the roof of a verandah, in front of a trellis work. The photograph 
is half plate size, and of course shows all the details enormously reduced, 
It is a very fine example, and the pseudobulbs would be almost too long for 
some of our modern Orchid houses, where small plants of the species are 
occasionally seen.—ED.| 
, HYBRIDS AND THE USE OF THE “ x."—The use of the sign of 
hybridity, “« x,” was adopted many years ago to distinguish hybrids from 
natural species, but hybrids have become so numerous during recent years 
that it leads to great inconvenience to have to distinguish them individually 
in this way, besides taking up much space, and the Gardeners’ Chronicle has 
now discontinued the practice in its reports. For three years we have 
omitted the sign from our annual Index in the case of Lelio-cattleya, on 
the ground that all Lzlio-cattleyas are hybrids, and it occurs to us that the 
practice might be extended to all hybrid genera. We propose to carry this 
out in future—indeed, it has been adopted during the last two months in our 
reports—but we do not propose to carry it further, at all events for the 
present, 
