136 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
lateral sepals. The lip has a broad, wedge-shaped, deep violet-purple 
blotch, gradually narrowing towards the apex, in front of the yellow crest. 
The side lobes are also more suffused than usual with the same colour, 
and there is a small spot on either side of the isthmus, which is sometimes 
confluent with the base of the large wedge-shaped blotch. It is the 
peculiar arrangement of the colour on the lip that gives to the plant its 
distinctive appearance, which is certainly bright and attractive, though, 
like many others, it is rather an individual than a variety in the true sense. 
O. Pescatorei, however, is far less variable than the polymorphic 0. 
crispum. 
NOTICE OF BOOK. 
A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants cultivated under glass in Great Britain. 
Part IX. James Veitch and Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, 
S.W. 
We have received Part ix. of the above invaluable work, which 1s 
devoted to Cymbidium, Zygopetalum, Lycaste, and the allied genera of 
Cyrtopodiez, also Maxillaria, Stanhopea and its allies, and to Rodriguezia 
and one or two other small genera of Oncidiez which have not found a 
place in preceding parts—in short, 38 genera in all. It contains 189 pages 
of text, together with an index and numerous woodcuts. The work is ® 
well known that a lengthened notice is quite unnecessary ; suffice pane! 
that it maintains its high standard of excellence, and will be invaluable 3 
a work of reference to cultivators and others. 
One or two points strikes us in turning over the pages. ZY ieee 
crinitum and Z. intermedium are reduced to the rank of varieties of i. 
Mackayi, while Z. brachypetalum, which is assuredly less distinct, * 
retained. This species also is in the Botanical Register, but on page 3: i : 
as given by Reichenbach. The precise habitat of Maxillaria grandiflora 
noted as “‘ only known to the collectors who sent it to Europe,” but we — 
point out, however, that at least four localities are known, in Ecuador, oar 
New Granada, and Venezuela, and that the species is widely diffs 
Lycaste macrophylla is made a synonym of L. plana, but as _ ae 
mentioned in the original description of L. plana, as based om ee es 
Maxillaria macrophylla, Ppp. and Endl., the former is the name N 
must be retained. L. x hybrida must be cited from this work, brid 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1878, where it is only alluded to as 4 EP is 
Lycaste.” L, Smeeana, cited after Reichenbach as a natural hybe ze 
evidently a good species. These points are not mentioned, pees = 
detracting from the value of the work, which contains a mine of 
mation of the most valuable kind. 
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