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pedium, which is certainly not a genus. And, as if this were not sufficient, 
we find in the enumeration of species that even synonyms long ago 
exploded, and even here not recognised, are still referred to Paphiopedium. 
And what shall be said of Paphiopedium barbatum, Lindl. (p. 30) and P. x 
Marshallianum, Rchb. f.(p. 550)? On p. 57 the figure of Cattleya Victoria- 
Regina is repeated, regardless of the fact that is made up from two 
different plants, while on p. 390 its habitat, and that of C. Alexandre, is 
wrongly spoken of as still a mystery. The genus Cycnoches is hopelessly 
mixed, for we find the female of C. pentadactylon figured on p. 164 as the 
male of C. ventricosum, while on p. 205 both sexes of professedly the same 
species are given, though in reality they belong to the very different C. 
Warscewiczii, while the male is called the female, and vice versi. Again, 
the enumeration of species on p. 426 is marred by four serious errors, 
besides which C. Pescatorei should be excluded. On p. 186 the old blunder 
about three sexes of Catasetum is repeated, though on p. 12 the author 
carefully cites the paper in which it was corrected. The remark on p. 41 
that the only character common to Orchidez and Burmanniacez is the 
inferior ovary is singularly unfortunate. Chapter XII. is devoted to 
Hybridisation, and incidentally we note that the author refers those who 
would study the history of hybridisation completely to ‘‘l’excellent Orchid 
Review.” A short chapter is. devoted to Fossil Orchids, of which one or 
two very doubtful examples have been described from the Eocene formation. 
Part II. is largely devoted to the geographical distribution of the various 
genera, with an alphabetical list of the principal species, and another of 
hybrids with their parentage; though most inexplicably nearly all the 
varieties of Lzelio-cattleya x elegans are given as hybrids between that 
plant and Cattleya labiata. The cultural details, to which Part III. is 
devoted, are as satisfactory as the nomenclature part is the reverse. The 
woodcuts are for the most part familiar, also the chromolithographs. 
There is a good Index, but the Table of Contents is strangely out of place 
at the end of the volume. We regret to have to point out so many defects 
in an otherwise very useful work, especially as so many of them might, and 
ought to have been, avoided, and by pointing some of them out we hope at 
least to hasten the period of their ultimate disappearance. 
COCHLIODA NCETZLIANA. 
A very fine specimen of this handsome species has flowered in the 
collection of Major-General C. B. Lucie-Smith, The Acacias, Worthing, 
It is a large clump, grown in a pan, and bore as many as ten of its 
gtaceiully arching spikes and one hundred and six flowers. It is a very 
easily-grown plant, and succeeds well in hanging pans or baskets in the 
cool house, in the usual compost of peat and sphagnum, with a plentiful 
