322 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A fine plant of Oncidium ornithorhynchum album now flowering in the 
collection of R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, bears 
seventeen spikes, most of them between two and three feet long, and 
averaging one hundred flowers on a spike. The effect is very charming. 
An exceptionally fine form of Cattleya Dowiana aurea comes from the 
collection of R. B. White, Esq., Arddarroch, N.B., the petals being two 
and a quarter inches broad and the lip three inches, dark in colour, evenly 
veined with yellow, and the margins very much undulated. 
A few duplicate plants from the collection of R. I. Measures, Esq., 
Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, were sold the other day at Messrs. Protheroe 
and, Morris’s rooms, when a small piece of Cypripedium Lawrenceanum 
Hyeanum fetched fifty guineas, and C. insigne Ernesti twenty guineas. 
VANDA x CHARLESWORTHII. 
A very distinct Vanda appeared in the collection of Messrs. Charles- 
worth, Shuttleworth, and Co., Heaton, Bradford, in May last, whose origin 
I was unable to account for, though I suspected it to be a natural hybrid, 
on account of resemblances to V. ccerulea and V. Bensoni, with the former of 
which it appeared. It was therefore provisionally named as above. The plant 
was exhibited at the Manchester show, as recorded at p. 182. Another plant 
has now appeared, this time in the establishment of Messrs. Hugh Low and 
Co., of Clapton, also as a single specimen,.in an importation of V. coerulea, 
from Burmah, and on further examination of the question I think there can 
be no doubt of its being a natural hybrid between the two species named. 
It is known that they grow together, and the present plant is as inter- 
mediate in habit and in the size and shape of the flower, as hybrids generally 
are. The flowers are two and a half inches in diameter, the texture of the 
sepals and petals being almost as in V. coerulea, but beautifully veined and 
suffused at the margin with light rosy purple instead of blue. The lip, on 
the contrary, has almost the texture of V. Bensoni, while the shape is about 
intermediate between the two, while at the apex are two rounded auricles of 
reddish purple, as in V. Bensoni, only smaller and rounder. The front lobe 
is shorter than in V. ccerulea, and constricted behind the auricles, which, by 
the way, are absent in the species just named. Between the side lobes are 
two yellow markings, also as in V. coerulea. There is only one explanation 
of such an unmistakable combination of the characters of the two species, 
and that is that V. x Charlesworthii is a natural hybrid between the species 
just named. Another genus must therefore be added to the list of those in 
which natural hybrids are known. : 
ce --R. A. ROLFE. 
