318 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (OCTOBER, 1909. 
Brassocattleya Praetii. It is much like a purple form of B.-c. Pluto, 
having bronzy purple sepals and petals, and a strongly three-lobed lip, with 
infolded, acute, lilac side lobes, tipped with purple, and a broad, bright 
purple, fringed front lobe; the isthmus also being purple and about as 
broad as long. Shortly afterwards came a magnificent form of Cattleya xX 
Iris, called var. King Edward VII., having reddish buff sepals and petals, 
the latter over two inches broad, and the front lobe of the lip very undulate, 
rich carmine-purple, and 23 inches broad, while the short side lobes are 
salmon-coloured. Mr.Day considers it to be the most beautiful that he 
hasever seen. There are also good flowers of C. Hardyana, X Maroni, X 
Pittiana, and Leliocattleya bletchleyensis. 
A flower of the handsome Sophrocattleya warnhamensis atropurpurea is 
sent from the collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., of Streatham. It 
measures over four inches in diameter across the petals, and the colour is 
dark crimson-purple with a yellow throat to the lip. The front lobe is 
elliptical-oblong, and somewhat undulated. A curious peloriate form of 
Odontoglossum crispum is also sent in which the sepals are of the same 
shape as the petals, and just as strongly crisped, while the lateral pair have 
a broad median yellow line on the basal half, with a few additional lines 
and traces of brown spots on the inner basal angles, the colour and 
markings resembling those of the crest of the lip. Cattleya x Adula var. 
Thwaitesii is a very distinct and brilliant form, having rose-purple sepals 
and petals, the latter 1~ inches broad, and recalling the C. x Hardyana 
parent in shape, and the front lobe of the lip intense purple-crimson, two 
inches broad, with a very short isthmus, and the side lobes bright rose. 
Several interesting Orchids are sent from the collection of His Honour, 
Judge Philbrick, K.C., Bodorgan House, Bournemouth. There is a good, 
brightly-coloured form of Léeliocattleya elegans, an inflorescence of 
Odontoglossum X Andersonianum, and a fine flower of Phragmopedilum 
Xx grande atratum, the latter from a plant bearing three spikes, which has 
been in bloom for six weeks. The others are three Paphiopedilums of 
unknown parentage, but the best is clearly a hybrid of P. Stonei, while the 
spotted dorsal sepal and green leaves indicate something containing P. 
insigne, possibly X Leeanum, which would make it a form of P. X 
Harveyanum. Another may be a form of P. xX Paulii, as it seems to 
combine the characters of P. X Harrisianum and P. x selligerum, while 
the third looks like a hybrid of Rothschildianum, though we cannot suggest © 
the second parent. There are too many hybrids without either name or 
record of parentage. Fine flowers of P. x Gowerianum and var. magnificum 
are also sent, with a richly-coloured P. x selligerum majus, anda bloom of 
Cattleya granulosa. ae ; 
A pretty rose-purple Lzliocattleya is sent from the collection of a 
