May, 1909.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 157° 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X WENDIGO.—A record from Mr. G. McWilliam, 
Whitinsville, Mass., carries the flowering of a hybrid between Paphiopedilum. 
callosum ?and P. X nitens ¢ back to 1899, the plant receiving a Silver 
Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on April 15th of this. 
year, under the name of Cypripedium < Mrs. George Marston Whitin. 
Mr. McWilliam was the raiser and exhibitor. The only record in the 
Orchid Stud-Book is P. X Wendigo, which flowered in the collection of the: 
late Reginald Young, Esq., in 1905 (O.R., xiii. p. 120.). 
EPIDENDRUM DECIPIENS. 
THERE is a handsome scarlet Epidendrum, closely allied to E. radicans,. 
which though described over half a century ago is seldom seen in cultiva- 
tion. A plant has now appeared in the collection of Mrs. B. B. Tuttle, 
Naugatuck, Conn., U.S.A., which is said to have been imported from 
Colombia, and an inflorescence and leaf have been sent by Mr. Pope, 
together with photographs, showing the former natural size and the whole 
plant reduced. The species has a curious history. It was described by 
Lindley in 1853 (Fol. Orch., Epidendr. p. 70), and the habitat was thus. 
described: ‘‘ Wild in New Grenada, in the province of Ocana—Schlim, 
1032 ; Demerara, on the Conocan Mountains—Schomburgk.” Lindley then 
remarked: ‘‘ This is nearest to E. Schomburgkii, from which it is. 
distinguished by its equally divided lip, smaller flowers, and the inconsider- 
able keel of the lip. The flowers are vermilion, according to Schomburgk, 
orange according to Schlim.” Curiously enough, these two specimens, 
which are mounted upon the same sheet in Lindley’s herbarium, belong to 
two distinct species, one of which was already named. Schomburgk’s 
Guiana specimen belongs to E. fulgens, Brongn., whose history has already 
been given (Orch. Rev. v., p. 264), and the name, E. decipiens, must there- 
fore be limited to the Colombian plant. E. decipiens has already appeared 
in cultivation, for there are two drawings in the Day collection (xviil. tt. 73, 
74), which were made in June, 1875, and Mr. Day remarked that the plants 
were bought at Stevens’ in June, 1874, at a sale of Mr. Patin’s plants 
from New. Grenada. One of these is considerably darker in colour than 
the other. The flowers of E. decipiens closely resemble those of E. radicans 
but are rather smaller, and the stems are dwarfer, and not rooting as in that 
species. The plant is about three feet high, and much resembles E. elongatum 
in habit, while the sepals and petals are bright orange-scarlet, and the lip 
vermilion with some crimson markings on the disc and side lobes. It is. 
interesting to be able to clear up the confusion in the history of the species. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
