256. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son, Upper Holloway, among a 
stove and greenhouse plants, exhibited a fine Lelia Digbyana and 
Cattleyas, which, from their surroundings, were rendered conspicuc 
CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 
Mr. W. Holmes, gr. to G. Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, Timperley, Cheshire, 
superb inflorescence of Lzlio-cattleya x elegans Turneri and Cattleya x calum 
latter a rare and very beautiful hybrid raised by M. Bleu, of Paris, from C.i 
and C. Aclandiw. The Odontoglossum enclosed for determination is O. au 
Rolfe. 
A two-flowered scape of Lycaste Deppei has appeared in the collection of Alex. 
kinson, Esq., The Grange, Wilmslow, Cheshire. This is very unusual, and we h 
before met with a similar instance. Mr. Hodgkinson also encloses a photograph 
imported plant of Dendrobium Falconeri, with 158 flowers, most of them over three 
across, and very richly coloured. It is certainly a very handsome specimen. 
Mr. A. Van Imschoot, of Mont-St.-Amand, Ghent, sends several very interesting 0 
particularly Vanda alpina, a Himalayan species allied to V. cristata, and very 
cultivation. Trichopilia albida, T. Wageneri, Lycaste leucantha, Brassia macula 
others are also included. 
Odontoglossum Galeottianum comes for determination from Mr. C. Clarke, Ri 
Cottage, Brandon, Suffolk. It is rather curious that this plant almost invariably 
with O. Cervantesii. A note about it will be found at p. 215. 
Messrs. Pitcher and Manda send a flower of ‘Sobralia macrantha Princess 
which they imported with S. xantholeuca. It is a little faded, but the flower appears! 
white with a faint flush of pink, and the disc of the lip lemon-yellow. But is it not@ vi 
of S. xantholeuca, not of S. macrantha? : 
Epidendrum campylostalix, Rchb, f., comes for determination from Mr. W. B. 
Curator, Edgbaston Botanical Gardens, Birmingham. It is a very rare species, from 
Rica and Guatemala. 
Cycnoches Rossianum, Rolfe, has again flowered in the collection of H. J- R 
Florence, Italy. A raceme to hand measures over a yard long, and bears t 
flowers. The appearance is very curious, and is not inaptly compared to a lot of m 
climbing up a rope. The Brassia enclosed for determination is B. brachiata, Lindl. 
V. L. Lewis and Co., Southgate.— We fail to recognise the Eria sent. 4 
_ Cattleya Mendeli La Vierge is a very striking variety of Cattleya Mendeli wh 
lust flowered in the collection of H. Little, Esq., of Baronshalt, East Twickenham é 
characterised by the total absence of any yellow on the disc of the lip, that CoS 
replaced by white. The front lobe is rosy purple. Another plant shows the 0 
extreme, in having the disc deep orange yellow, almost like Cattleya Eldorado. 
however, only a variety of C. Mendeli, approaching one called C. Kimballiana 
believe is only a variety of C. Mendeli. 
. A se form of Cypripedium tonsum is now flowering in the collection of 0. 
we — Hall, Bury, Lancashire, as we learn from him. The flower mé&% 
ra Ho, inches from tip to tip of the petals, and four and three-quarter inches 
Sechinarbe te, sepal to the apex of the lip. Mr. Wrigley states that it 18 8° 
us peat and crocks, as are all his Cypripedia. 
