THE ORCHID REVIEW, II 
a slight approach towards L. anceps, but the resemblance is probably 
deceptive. It is now certain that it exists in considerable quantities, which 
is against its supposed hybrid origin, and as the numerous plants now in 
various collections are practically uniform in character, it is probably a 
distinct but local species. Some of the plants distributed as L. Gouldiana 
proved to be ordinary L. autumnalis, but whether they were found growing 
with it has not been recorded, nor has anything definite been published 
respecting its exact habitat. It is one of the best of the group, and 
succeeds well when grown with its allies. It is a most beautiful autumn 
and winter-blooming Orchid, and a plant has been recorded in the collection 
of Sir Trevor Lawrence as bearing ten spikes and over forty flowers, 
presenting a mass of glowing colour at a particularly dull season. Our 
figure (p. 9, fig. 2) is reproduced from a flower kindly sent by Mr. W. 
Stevens, gr. to W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staffordshire. 
Lelia Gouldiana, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1888, i. p. 41; 1890, i. pp. 169, 171, fig. 28 ; 
Reichenbachia, ser. 1, vol. ii. p. 23, t. 59 ; Orchid Album, viii. t. 371. 
LALIA ANCEPS SANDERIANA. 
TuIs is one of the best-known white varieties of Lzlia anceps, but is 
specially interesting just now, as some such form must have been one of 
the parents of Lelia x Finckeniana, figured on a preceding page. It 
was described in 1885, and is said to have been discovered in a new locality 
on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The flower has the shape of typical L. 
anceps, but the colour is white with a rose-purple blotch on the front lobe 
of the lip, which varies somewhat in size and depth of colour. In the 
flower figured (p. 9, fig. 3), which is from the collection of W. Thompson, 
Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staffordshire, it was small and very light in 
colour. The figures are exact, being reproduced from a photograph. 
Lelia anceps var. Sanderiana, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1885, i. p. 140; 1887, i. pp. 280, 
281, fig. 59. 
CYPRIPEDIUM VENUSTUM VAR. MEASURESIANUM. 
This is a very pretty albino, in which all the brown and red of the typical 
form has vanished, also the wart-like spots of the petals, leaving them 
yellowish green, and the lip yellow veined with green. The dorsal sepal is 
about as usual. The replacement of the brown and red by yellow and 
green gives this variety a very bright and attractive appearance, and it 
contrasts very effectively with the typical form. The plant is in the rich 
collection of R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, and 
received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society on 
December 12th last. 
