244 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
expanded in one house, which were tastefully arranged with maidenhair 
ferns, forming a perfect picture of loveliness. Many were already over, but 
still greater numbers were coming on to keep up the succession. It is 
interesting to note that as an experiment a large number of plants have 
been potted in polypodium fibre, and we hope to be able to note the result 
on a future occasion. 
The popular O. crispum may be mentioned first, being represented in 
large numbers, both in and out of flower. Many imported plants are not 
yet proved, and of these the inferior kinds will be discarded as they flower, 
so as to make room for the better kinds. One splendid plant bore two spikes 
from the same bulb, one carrying fifteen fine flowers, and the other thirteen. 
One of the largest forms of this species we have met with was out of bloom, 
but a dried flower measured over four and a quarter inches across its 
broadest diameter, so that it must have been considerably larger when 
alive. This was O.c. Thompsoni, a form with broad and much toothed 
petals, which, as well as the sepals, are heavily blotched with chocolate. A 
dried flower of O. c. apiatum from the type plant was a full half-inch 
smaller. O. c. variegatum—for such it may be called—had the pseudo- 
bulbs and leaves striped with yellow and green, much in the way of the old- 
fashioned ribbon-grass. The plant is quite healthy, and the flowers 
well-shaped. Two other curious forms of considerable interest were 
observed. One has the curious habit of producing young plants on the top 
of the old ones, which may be taken off and propagated ; the other produces 
its flowers singly in succession, in a very unusual manner, the spike first 
growing a short distance, then halting while the flower is developed, then 
again elongating and producing another, and so on throughout the summer. 
Both forms have proved constant in character. Among various other good 
and interesting forms, was one very pleasing one in which the blotches on 
the sepals and petals, were of a distinctly rosy shade. 
Odontoglossum x Coradinei was flowering in force, being represented 
by six different plants, no two being alike. One plant bore two spikes, each 
with fourteen flowers. Several good forms of O. x Andersonianum were 
out, one bearing four spikes, a brilliantly-coloured O. x Ruckerianum, also 
of twoO. x Wilckeanum, one of which bore a spike of eighteen flowers and 
another of thirteen on the same bulb. O. x elegans also carried spikes of 
fourteen and thirteen flowers; and O. gloriosum, a very dense panicle of seven 
branches. The rare little O. Schillerianum claimed attention by its richly- 
coloured blooms, while various plants of O. triumphans, Pescatorei, cirrho- 
sum added their charming flowers to the general effect. O.luteopurpureum 
was also well represented, with spikes of fourteen and sixteen flowers from 
the same bulb, the variety hystrix with nineteen and seventeen, and a good 
Plant of O.1. sceptrum. The rare O. nevium was represented by a fine 
specimen carrying a dozen spikes, some bearing twelve and thirteen flowers, 
