56 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Phalenopses are now beginning to flower again, chiefly P. amabilis, 
Boxallii, Lowii, Lueddemanniana, and Schilleriana will most certainly 
be open during the month. In the London district fog has played sad 
havoc with some of the early buds. Several Phaiuses, which ought to 
be more largely grown, are also flowering, namely, P. grandifolius, 
maculatus, and callosus, and we must not forget the beautiful P. x 
Cooksoni. The pretty little Restrepia striata is promising well, and 
Saccolabium giganteum, and violaceum are already open. Selenipedium 
furnishes some valuable flowers at. this season, S. X calurum, X 
cardinale, Roezlii, and x Sedeni candidulum are now in flower, and 
will remain so for another two months or more. 
Among botanical species are to be seen some really fine blooming 
plants, as Tainia augustifolia and penangiana; Trias picta and vitrina 
are also showing their curious flowers, and the handsome Spiranthes 
colorata is now in full bloom. Xylobium corrugatum, and leontoglossum 
are also flowering, and it would be easy to give quite a list of botanical 
species, some of which are well worthy of more extended cultivation. 
Space, however, is limited, and the above contains a selection of the 
better known kinds, and we hope’ the list will prove interesting to the 
majority of our friends of the Review. Next month will doubtless prove 
still more productive. . 
ODONTO. 
THE LATE MR. JAMES BATEMAN. 
THE following extract from a letter received by me in March, 1892, from 
the late Mr. Bateman will probably be read with interest, as it shows the 
character of this remarkable man, besides giving some facts which are 
probably not elsewhere recorded. The letter arose out of my articles on 
Cycnoches in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and after some interesting details 
about C. ventricosum and C. Egertonianum as figured in his ‘* big book,” 
_as he termed it, he proceeded :-— : 
“Mr. Lance (after whom Oncidium Lanceanum is called, and who 
discovered Cycnoches Loddigesii in Surinam) has not been dead many 
years. He was a barrister and a member of the Atheneum. I remember 
nearly twenty years ago going to his rooms in the Temple, together with 
-Mr. Huntley (hence the genus Huntleya), who was a friend of his, where 
we both feasted our eyes on a large portfolio of drawings (by Mr. Lance 
himselt), which he brought with him from Surinam. Lindley, in a letter to 
me, describes his first visit to them in these words :—‘ Oh! I have just seen 
such drawings of such things from Surinam—beautiful beyond description, 
