374 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ DECEMBER, 1906. 
ORCHIDS FROM PENARTH. 
THE collection of Orchids grown by J. J. Neale, Esq., Park road, Pe::arth, 
is evidently a very representative one, for examples of the followiug are 
sent by Mr. Haddon. The rare Odontoglossum Londesboroughianum has 
just produced a spike of eighteen flowers. It is grown close to the roof of 
the Cool Intermediate House, being suspended near a ventilator which has 
been open night and day, with hardly any shade, and the plant has been 
syringed morning and evening on bright days. Calanthe vestita luteo- 
oculata and rubro-oculata are from a recent importation by Messrs. Sander, 
a flower of C. X Veitchii being also included. There are three forms of 
Lelia pumila, with a good dark form of L. Perrinii, and a good Cattleya 
labiata. Oncidium is represented by the handsome O. tigrinum, O. 
crispum, O. Forbesii, O. dasytyle, O. excavatum, and O. ornithorhynchum, 
and Epidendrum by E. ciliare, E. nocturnum, and E. latilabrum. Den- 
drobium bigibbum, D. Phalenopsis and its dark variety Statterianum, 
together with Phragmopedilum x Sedeni candidulum and P. x calurum 
are valuable autumn-flowering plants. Other interesting things are 
Cochlioda vulcanica, Phalenopsis Esmeralda, Masdevallia peristeria, 
Zygopetalum pallidum, Platyclinis Cobbiana, Stenoglottis longifolia, Bulbo- 
phyllum Careyanum and rufinum, Polystachya laxiflora and Adansonie, 
and Seraphyta multiflora, the latter being one of four sprays produced by 
this graceful and very floriferous plant. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON, 
A FLOWER of the handsome Cattleya x Leda Westonbirt var. (superba X 
Dowiana aurea), which received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. 
on November 6th last, is sent from the collection of Major G. L. Holford, 
Westonbirt, Tetbury, by Mr. Alexander. It is most like an enlarged 
edition of the former in shape, and has bright rose-purple sepals and petals, 
and an intense purple-crimson lip, with some yellow veining in the throat. 
A flower of a handsome seedling Lzlio-cattleya is sent from the 
collection of F. M. Burton, Esq., Hightield, Gainsborough, which we 
believe to be L.-c. Nysa. The Lelia crispa influence is unmistakeable, and 
we believe that Cattleya Warscewiczii was the other parent. It was 
purchased some years ago as a small seedling. 
Four interesting flowers are sent from the collection of R. I. Measures, 
Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, by Mr. Smith. One is a handsome 
hybrid Cattleya which was purchased about a year ago as C. Harrisoniana 
x Hardyana, but the flower agrees so closely with C. x Mrs. Pitt, that we 
Suspect the second parent may have been C. Dowiana aurea. Paphio- 
pedilum x Olenus and P. x Charles Richman superbum are two well- 
