376 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 
H. J. Ross, Esq, aes Italy, sends a very fine Cypripedium callosum, under the 
varietal name of Rossianum. Cypripedium Volonteanum, we believe, is only a local variety 
of C. Hookerz, and ‘a been described as such. Mr. Ross purchased a lot of several 
plants at Protheroe and Morris’s Rooms, in March, 1891, and states that one proved to be 
C. Hookerz, but all the rest C. Bullenianum. We do not know if the two grow intermixed. 
In the Burford collection is a fine plant of Selenipedium Schlimii, now bearing thirteen 
spikes, several of them branched ones, and numerous flowers; also Vanda Amesiana with 
seven spikes, Cattleya Dormaniana with seven flowers ; a very fine Cypripedium X cenan- 
thum superbum with eight flowers, and C. x Niobe with four. Eulophia maculata and the 
rare Dendrobium cymbidioides are also in flower. 
Mr, W. Hough, gr. to M. Lambarde, Esq., Beechmont, Sevenoaks, sends a flower of a 
handsome Cattleya which was purchased as C. Dowiana. It is a form of C. x Hardyana, 
almost identical in shape with the species just named, but the sepals are beautifully veined, 
suffused and mottled with rosy purple. The lip is very deeply coloured, but less veined 
than in C., Dowiana. Thus it chiefly approaches C. Warscewiczii, the other parent, in 
colour. The forms of this superb natural hybrid are becoming rather numerous. 
J. T., Ashford. The cause of the bulbs of Miltonia vexillaria rotting may have been over- 
watering when the plants were at rest 
An exceptionally fine form of Vanda ccerulea comes from T. R. Watt, Esq., with flowers 
nearly four inches in diameter, hinge reticulated with deep blue. It is one of Burmese 
forms imported by Messrs. Hugh Low a 
Lzlia tenebrosa, Little’s variety, aa the collection of H. Little, Esq., of Twickenham, 
is a fine large fier, with flowers seven inches across, and the sepals and petals quite 
horizontal. The colour is about typical. 
ERRATA. 
P. 351. Cypripedium X amandum was derived from C. insigne and C. venustum. 
P. 352. Cypripedium Fairieanum was the pollen parent of C. X Arthurianum 
pulchellum. 
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