2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
It is announced that Count Oswald de Kerchove de Deterghem, 
President of the Royal Agricultural and Botanical Society of Ghent, is 
about to publish a work entitled Le Livre des Orchidées, which will form 
a companion volume to the author’s work on Palms. 
The Fournal des Orchidées, whose announced suspension was alluded to 
in our previous issue, is to be continued as usual, as we learn from its 
issue of December 15th last. 
Consul F. C. Lehmann’s Herbarium has been acquired by the Trustees 
of the British Museum, and will find a home in the Natural History 
Museum, South Kensington. Many new and interesting Orchids have 
been discovered by Consul Lehmann, chiefly in Columbia and Ecuador. 
A curious malformation of the flowers of Cattleya labiata has appeared 
in the collection of Hamar Bass, Esq, Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent, in 
which the two lateral sepals have simulated the lip in form and colour, 
and the dorsal sepal has become a petal. Thus the flowers have three 
petals at the top and three lips underneath. It was imported by Messrs. 
F’. Sander and Co., of St. Albans. The same form has also appeared with 
T. W. Browning, Esq., Carass Court, Co. Limerick. All the flowers on 
both leads of the plant are alike. 
An unusually fine specimen of Phalznopsis grandiflora is recorded in 
the pages of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, by “G. W. E., Henham,” which 
carries a spike of forty expanded flowers, each over three inches in diameter, 
and some unopened buds. A plant of P. Schilleriana has also produced 
two flower-spikes, each of which bears a young plant. These have been 
mossed round, and when rooted will be cut off and grown in the usual way. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA x ALBANENSE. 
At a meeting of the Orchidéene of Brussels, held on December roth ~ 4 
last, a plant was exhibited by Messrs. Linden, L’ Horticulture Internationale, 
Brussels, under the name of Lzlio-cattleya x Stchegoleffiana, and received 
a First-class Diploma of Honour. It was noted as a supposed natural 
hybrid between Lzelia tenebrosa and Cattleya labiata. It was also exhibited 
at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on December-tzth. The 
plant is evidently a good variety of Lzlio-cattleya x albanese (Orchid 
Review, i, p. 339), introduced by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., from Bahia, 
and a natural hybrid between Lelia grandis and Cattleya Warneri. C. 
labiata and L. tenebrosa do not grow together, and the latter with C. 
Warneri yields Lzlio-cattleya x Gottoiana (J.c., p. 338). It is a handsome 
plant, and its appearance in another collection is interesting. 
R.. A. BR, 
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