226 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The new Cypripedium Charlesworthii, of which a coloured plate appeared 
in our issue for December last, has now begun to flower. We have seen 
many plants in bud, and Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. exhibited four at the 
Drill Hall on July 24th. It would therefore appear to be a summer 
flowerer. We shall soon be able to judge of its value, and how far it is 
subject to variation. It appears to be a very good grower. 
A hybrid Sobralia has now appeared, having been raised in the establish- 
ment of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea. It was obtained by 
crossing S. macrantha and S. xantholeuca, and received a First-class Certifi- 
cate from the Royal Horticultural Society on July 24th. 
A very interesting batch of seedlings has been raised in the collection of 
F. Hardy, Esq., of Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, from Cattleya x 
Hardyana ¢ and Lelia Digbyana 7. They are very small at present, and 
cannot be expected to flower for a number of years, but their progress will 
be watched with interest. 
Cattleya Rex is now flowering in various places. In the collection of 
T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester, there are nine plants 
showing bloom, one of them with three spikes. One or two of the flowers 
are just expanding. About four flowers to a spike seems to be the average. 
We shall soon be in a position to judge of its. merits. 
STANHOPEA HASELOWIANA. 
This very handsome Stanhopea never seems to have become common 
in collections, though it was described as long ago as 1855 (Otto und Dietr. 
Allg. Gartenz., xxiii. p. 322). It was introduced from North Peru by 
Warscewicz, and flowered in the collections of Herr Haseloff at Berlin. A 
poor figure is given in Reichenbach’s Xenia Orchidacee (i. pp. 123, 196, t. 
72), though the petals and lip are wrongly coloured purple. A plant has 
now bloomed in the Kew collection, which shows its true character.. The 
flowers have much of the structure of a large S. Wardii, but the mesochil, 
or middle part of the lip, is longer than in any of its allies. The ground 
colour is cream-white, with numerous ring-like, reddish purple spots on the 
sepals and petals, while the lip and column are spotted all over with deep 
purple spots, some of them being linear in shape. The channel of the 
hypochil is unusually wide, being nearly a quarter of an inch across at its 
broadest part, and as much as two lines at its narrowest. The length of 
the mesochil is evidently exaggerated in the figure above cited, so that S. 
_ Moliana, Rolfe (Lindenia, t. 331), can hardly be as different as at first 
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