354 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Respecting Cycnoches Loddigesii, of which the female flower was noted 
at p. 277, Mr. Lane, gardener to H. J. Elwes, Esq., writes that the plant 
was brought from Demerara by a friend of Mr. Elwes in 1893, and in the 
May and June following it produced two female flowers, two males in July, 
and again two more in October, while the plant has increased in size and 
promises well for next year. The Kew plant, which flowered last February 
(p. 65), has also produced two more racemes nine months later, one with 
five the other with two flowers. It is evidently very floriferous. 
Oncidium tigrinum is one of the best and showiest autumn-flowering 
species, and its showy panicles are particularly welcome. Some fine flowers 
of it have been sent from the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Ard- 
darroch, which illustrate this point. The lip is very large, and clear yellow, 
while the sepals and petals are broadly barred with very dark brown, 
affording a very effective contrast. 
A remarkable example of Cattleya Bowringiana comes from H. J. Ross, 
Esq., of Florence, in the shape of three flowers fused together. There are 
three lips in front, five broad petals at the back, and around these seven 
ordinary sepals. In the centre is a broad flattened column with three 
perfect anthers. It is very interesting, and from a florist’s standpoint very 
beautiful, being quite double. 
The tendency of Selenipedium x Sedeni to produce abnormal flowers is 
well known. The same thing is sometimes seen in S. X cardinale. A 
flower at Kew has the staminode suppressed, while the dorsal sepal is 
divided and the two halves united to either side of the lower sepal. The 
two petals are united into one, and take the place of the dorsal sepal, while 
the two ordinary stamens are wanting. ‘There is one perfect anther, which 
occupies the place of the staminode, and may represent it, though it looks 
as if the two lateral ones had become united, like the petals, and thus were 
drawn out of place. 
The small beetle known as Otiorhynchus sulcatus we believe seldom 
troubles Orchid growers much, though its ravages among vines and other 
succulent plants are well known. A letter received from A. M. Holliday, 
Esq., of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, however, states that a plant of Vanda 
Kimballiana had been eaten night after night, in spite of cotton wool with 
snuff on it, and when the plant was stood in water, the only thing that came 
out was the above beetle (the specimen being enclosed for identification). 
Flowers and spikes of Orchids had frequently been eaten, it was at first 
thought by slugs, but when searching for them with a candle his gardener 
had frequently found and caught the beetle, which is evidently the marauder. 
At present it has only been observed in the Cool House. Others may have 
: ‘oars a — experience. 
