232 THE ORCHID REVIEW, 
having been received from an Englishman named Alabaster, who had 
obtained them from the cliff of a limestone island, near the Bird’s Nest 
Islands of Champon, in Siam, where it was originally found by Murton 
some years previously. Other importations from Siam are recorded, 
whether from the same locality or not I am unable to say. There is also a 
plant which flowered with M. J. Garden, of Paris, about the year 1888, to 
which the name C. Gardenianum was applied, which seems identical with 
the preceding, and this, M. Garden states, was received from Cochin China. 
More recently the form known as C. Godefroyz leucochilum has appeared, 
but I do not find any record of the locality, though I have heard of two or 
more of the allied species being found in the same importation, and there is 
other evidence of these forms growing intermixed. For example, C. 
concolor is recorded to have been sent from the Bird’s Nest Islands of 
Champon, whence C. Godefroye originally came, and Mr. Ridley remarks 
that, just outside the boundary of the Malay Peninsula, in Siam, 
‘grow ... C. bellatulum and its variety Godefroye ” (Journ. Linn. Soc., 
XXXil., pp. 415, 416), while Mr. Bull states that he has received C. niveum 
from the west coast of Siam (see Bot. Mag. t. 5922). 
An examination of all the facts which I have been able to obtain seems 
to suggest that C. bellatulum, concolor and niveum are three quite distinct 
species, which occur locally, and for the most part separately, but that 
round the Gulf of Siam there are localities where two or more species grow 
intermixed, and that here hybrids occur, which are known collectively under 
the name of C. Godefroye. This has always been rare as compared with 
the others, and its variability has been noticed almost from the outset. 
Now comes the question how far the hybrids which have been raised 
artificially afford any confirmatory evidence. Between the three species just 
named, three combinations are possible, and two of these have been raised, 
namely C. bellatulum with both C. niveum and concolor, but I do not find 
a record of any cross between the two latter. 
The hybrid between C. bellatulum and niveum was raised in he 
collection of C. Winn, Esq., of Birmingham, and flowered in 1893, when it 
received the name of C. x Psyche (Orch. Rev., i, p. 223; 11, p. 262). It was 
described as to all outward appearances a white-lipped form of C. Godefroy 
—probably C. G. leucochilum, only purer. One called C. x Mrs. Herbert 
Druce was raised in the collection of H. Druce, Esq., from “‘C. niveum X 
bellatulum ” (possibly the reversed cross), and first flowered in 1897. It has 
the shape and undulate petals of C. Godefroye, and a white ground covered 
all over with numerous small purple dots, even including the lip. 
- The hybrid between C. bellatulum and concolor was raised in the 
= eolicctice of Sir Charles Strickland, Bart., Hildenley, Malton, and flowered 
: in 1895, (Orch. Rev. ili, p. -187), and it was one of these seedlings which 
