THE ORCHID REVIEW. 239 
LELIO-CATTLEYA x SCHILLERIANA LEUCOTATA. 
This is the plant recently figured in the Lindenia (t. 373) as Liw % 
elegans leucotata, though the above is its correct name, for the two hybrids 
are distinct both in character and parentage, as was pointed out at Pp. 235 
of our last volume. The figure just cited represents a pure white variety, 
which is said to have bloomed in the houses of L’Horticulture Inter- 
nationale, Brussels, in May 1893, from a newly-imported plant. It subse- 
quently passed into the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, 
Streatham, for the sum of £150, the purchase being made entirely on the 
strength of the coloured drawing, This year it has again flowered, but 
instead of being pure white the blooms are slightly flushed with pale rose, 
which is quite distinct on the back of the sepals, and consequently the 
accuracy of the drawing has been called in question. We have received 
several documents relating to the point in dispute, and a fresh flower. With 
regard to the latter it is the nearest approach to an albino we have seen, 
and the front lobe of the lip is as light as the rest of the flower, but 
it is not pure white. With regard to last year three gentlemen who saw 
the flowers, namely, Dr. Capart, M. A. Madoux, and G. Miteau, have 
certified that the plate is correct. But we venture to say that the pedicels 
of the flowers were never green like the leaves, as is represented in the 
plate. Then there is the statement by W. H. G., in the Orchid Album 
(in a note under t. 469), that the plant was in flower last year at The 
Woodlands, which is evidently pure romance. Whether it was made up 
from a look at the plant and another at the painting we know not, but we 
are assured that no bloom was ever seen there until this season. As to the 
rosy flush in the flower, future bloomings may throw further light on the 
question. 
RESTREPIA ANTENNIFERA AND ITS ALLIES. 
IT is curious what confusion has been introduced into the histories of some 
of our garden Orchids. Restrepia antennifera, the type of the genus, 
furnishes a very good example. This species is supposed to be well known 
in gardens, though in reality it has been confounded with another species, 
which has usurped the name, as I have just been able to ascertain. It was 
originally described and figured in 1815, from a plant collected near Pasto, 
in New Granada (H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp., i. p. 367, t. 94), and is dis- 
tinctly stated to have the lateral sepals striped (‘‘ striato-nervosa, fusco- 
flavescentia, interne coccineo-striata”). Our well known garden plant of 
this name, with spotted flowers, which was sent by M. Gustav Wallis to M. 
Linden, and flowered in 1869 (Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1869, p. 1254), is 
really R. maculata, Lindl. (Orch. Lind., p. 4), another New Granadan 
species, to which all the garden figures of so-called R. antennifera belong. 
