’ THE ORCHID REVIEW. 107 
month. Amongst Cypripediums, which still form an interesting show, a 
few more are now fast coming on, as C. Argus, Curtisii, hirsutissimum, 
the handsome C. Lawrenceanum and C. Stonei. Lissochilus Krebesii is 
a South African species which flowers quite freely after a thorough rest. 
Phaius bicolor, and the graceful and sweet scented Platyclinis glumacea 
should also be mentioned. 
Many botanical species could be mentioned, but already we have 
exceeded our alloted space, without nearly exhausting the list, for in 
other collections various species will be found which we have omitted. 
ODONTO. 
CYMBIDIUM LOWIANUM WITH DOUBLE FLOWERS. 
IT is most unusual to find all the flowers on an inflorescence fused together 
in pairs, but we learn that in the collection of J. W. Hodgson, Esq., Higher 
Bebington Hall, Birkenhead, one has now made its appearance. One of 
these double flowers has been sent by Mr. Hodgson, who remarks that the 
plant has ‘“‘twenty or thirty blooms on it, all the same, double.” In the 
example sent the two ovaries are completely fused, and the two adjacent 
lateral sepals are also united along their median nerve, but all the other 
parts, including lip and column, are free, and thus every organ exists in 
duplicate, and as the peculiarity extends to the entire inflorescence the effect 
must be very curious. We are unable to suggest any reason for the 
peculiarity, and should like to know if it is repeated next year. A case of 
Odontoglossum gloriosum with five double flowers on the inflorescence is 
recorded at page 238 of our second volume, but we do not call to mind 
another instance of all the flowers being in this condition. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x LOOCHRISTIENSE. 
WE have received from M. Ch. Vuylsteke another flower of the beautiful 
Odontoglossum xX loochristiense, which was described at page 41. It is 
from a second seedling out of the same batch, and is a decided improve- 
ment on the original, being larger and brighter in colour—in some respects 
resembling a brightly coloured O. Xx excellens, but with the essential 
crispum shape, and toothed column wings. The petals are clear bright 
yellow, without any trace of spots, but each sepal is lightly suffused with 
a rosy purple tint, and bears a large cinnamon blotch above the middle. 
A similar blotch also occurs on the lip. It is probable that the usual 
amount of variation will appear as other seedings flower, but this point 
may be left for the present. 
