238 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A second species which has been confounded under the same name-is R. 
guttulata, Lindl. (Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag., ii. p. 356), a native of Ecuador, 
which, so far as I can ascertain, has never been introduced to cultivation. 
It is taller than R. maculata, and, according to dried specimens, has larger 
and more brightly-coloured flowers. The true R, antennifera, H, B. K., is 
extremely rare in cultivation and seems to have only appeared during recent 
years, for I fail to find any record of it. It flowered with M. Ch. Vuylsteke, 
of Loochristy, Gand, in January, 1892, though its identity has only just 
been discovered, and now it has appeared with Messrs, W. L. Lewis and 
Co., Chase Side, Southgate. It is much like R. maculata in size and shape, 
but each lateral sepal has seven light purple stripes on a pale whitish yellow 
ground. It must not be confounded with R. striata, Rolfe (Gard. Chron., 
1891, i. p. 137), though it is more likely to be taken for it than for R. 
maculata, Although only recently introduced to cultivation, it has long 
been imperfectly known from dried specimens, and both Wagener and Schlim 
recorded that it had striped flowers, while the latter also noted that R. 
maculata had, spotted flowers. And curiously enough Reichenbach recorded 
the striped one under its correct name in 1855 (Bonplandia, iii. p. 70), and 
pointed out how it differed from R. maculata, though fourteen years later, 
when the spotted one appeared in cultivation, he followed Lindley, who in 
1859, had confused the two (Lindl. Fol. Orch., Restrep. p. 1). In future, 
however, we must limit the name of R. antennifera to the striped one, and 
restore that of R. maculata to the common garden plant. ey ee 
LZLIA TENEBROSA, HARMAR BASS'S VARIETY. 
A very dark and richly-coloured variety of Lelia tenebrosa has flowered 
in the collection of Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent, which has 
received the above name. Mr. Hamilton, who kindly sends a flower, states 
that it was purchased from Messrs. F. Sander and Co., in 1892. Once or 
twice before we have seen something like it ; in fact, it represents the maxi- 
mum development of the species both in size and colour. It isa really 
magnificent thing. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM GLORIOSUM WITH DOUBLE FLOWERS. 
Some time ago we received from R. le Doux, Esq., Marlfield, West 
Derby, Liverpool, a flower of Odontoglossum gloriosum with two columns 
and twice the usual number of segments, affording an example of the 
fusion of two flowers in one. This has occasionally been seen before in 
the case of O. crispum and other species, but the curious thing in this case 
is that no less than five of the flowers on the spike were perfectly double, 
as we learn from Mr. le Doux, a thing not observed before to such an extent. 
The peculiarity is not likely to be permanent. 
