134 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1969 
pink, and bearing two purple blotches, while the lip has one large blotch in 
front, and many small ones on either side of the crest. 
A flower of the very handsome Cattleya Schroederee The Baron, which 
received a First-class Certificate from the R. H. S. on April 6th, is sent 
from the collection of Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury, by Mr. 
Alexander. It has delicate blush-pink sepals and petals of perfect shape, 
and a broad zone of light purple in front of the orange-coloured disc of the 
lip. A flower of Cattleya X Robert de Wavrin, which received an Award 
of Merit on the same date, is also sent. It is said to have been obtained 
from C. Schroedere X Schilleriana, and has rose-pink sepals and petals, the 
latter being very broad, and a quite entire rosy lip, with somewhat darker 
veins in front of the orange-coloured disc. The resemblance to C. 
Schroedere is unmistakable, but we cannot trace the influence of C. 
Schilleriana in the flower. 
Flowers of a handsome Dendrobium, purchased as D. Pierardi at a sale 
of newly-imported Burmese Orchids, are sent by Dr. Otto N. Witt, Berlin. 
It is D. lituiflorum, a more slender species than D. nobile, and with a longer 
tube to the lip, while the colour is much like D. n. nobilius. It is rare in 
cultivation. 
Three forms of Cattleya Mendelii are sent from the collection of G. 
Hamilton-Smith, Esq., Finchley. C. M. Gloria Mundi has rosy lilac sepals 
and petals, and the front half of the lip bright amethyst-purple, while the side 
lobes are white and the disc yellow. It was purchased at the Westfield sale. 
A second, purchased at Messrs. Protheroe’s Sale Rooms, with the varietal 
name The Queen, is lighter in every respect, though of similar type. The 
third is alarger flower, with petals measuring 44 by 22 inches, and the lip 
rather elongated, and rosy-purple, with lilac-coloured veining. 
HORMIDIUM PSEUDOPYGMAUM. 
A curious little Costa Rican Orchid has just flowered at the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Glasnevin, which apparently belongs to Hormidium pseudo- 
pygmzum, a species described from that country in 1899 (Finet in Bull. 
Herb. Botss., vii. p. 121). It is allied to H. uniflorum, Heynh., a plant 
which was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 3233), but differs in having 
longer pseudobulbs, which are cylindrical at the summit, rather larger 
leaves, and in having the flowers borne ina short spike. The flowers are 
white with a few red markings on the lip. The species was collected in 
Costa Rica by Tonduz, and flowered with M. Barbey at Perriére in 1898. 
The Glasnevin plant was obtained from Mr. J. O’Brien in August, Igor, as 
Epidendrum sp. from Costa Rica. Hormidium was placed as a section of 
Epidendrum by Lindley, but raised to generic rank by Bentham. 
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