ve “THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
much moisture on the other. Those in doubt as to the best method of 
procedure might easily make up one or two trial packages and open them at 
the end of seven or eight days, noting the result, and those which do not 
stand well would be best spread out and pressed in blotting paper. It isa 
pleasure to receive flowers in good condition, but when more or less decayed 
it is satisfactory to no one. 
LALIA ANCEPS AND ITS VARIETIES. 
L2LIA ANCEPS is one of the most beautiful winter-flowering Orchids we 
have, and its variability constitutes one of its principal charms, for it is 
possible to have quite a number of plants in the collection, yet no two of 
them being alike. A complete list of the known varieties, thirty-four in 
number, was given in our fourth volume (pp. 50-53), and others have since 
been named. A few of them, it is true, differ from each other in very slight 
characters, but the number which will stand the test of being cultivated 
side by side, under identical conditions, is larger than in the case of most 
other species. For the opportunity of comparing a series of eleven varieties 
grown under such conditions, we are indebted to the Right Hon. J. 
Chamberlain, M.P., who has now a very fine show of them in his 
collection at Highbury, many being fine specimen plants, one of them 
bearing as many as twenty-three spikes. 
The white forms are, ALBA, in which every trace of colour has vanished 
with the exception of the light yellow crest ; WILLIAMSIANA, white, with 
the usual purple markings in the throat; STELLA, similar, but with the 
addition of a little lilac on the front lobe of the lip; and SANDERIANA, in 
which the front lobe bears a large purple blotch. The latter is bearing 
ten spikes with forty-eight blooms. 
The coloured forms comprise: BARKERIANA, differing from the type in 
its narrow petals ; GRANDIFLORA, characterised by its large richly-coloured 
flowers ; CHAMBERLAIN’S VAR., nearly allied to the preceding, but rather 
darker in the lip; PERcivaLiana, with light rose-pink sepals and petals and 
a much darker lip; BLANDA, darker than the preceding; CALLISTOGLOSSA, 
near the last, but with very richly coloured lip ; and HiGHBurRyY Var., another 
ally, but with the sepals and petals of a very rich rosy purple shade. 
From the size and development of the flowers it is evident that the 
plants are very well cultivated, and that the locality was not visited with 
fogs to such an extent as those situated in the London district, where 
plants of Lelia anceps presented a deplorable sight. 
’ L. A. ROEBLINGIANA is a remarkable variety, of which a flower has 
been sent by Mr. H. T. Clinkaberry, gardener to C. G. Roebling, Esq., 
_ Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A. It has just received a Silver Medal from 
