FEBRUARY, 1903. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 35 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x LEPIDUM. 
A STRIKING form of this pretty natural hybrid between Odontoglossum 
Pescatorei and QO. Lindleyanum has just appeared with Messrs. F. 
Sander & Sons, at St. Albans, the petals of the flower sent being without a 
trace of spotting, but the sepals bear large irregular chestnut brown 
blotches, and there is one large red-brown blotch in front of the lip’s crest, 
the contrast being very effective. The ground colour of the flower is ivory 
white, tinged with yellow at the margins of the segments, and the shape 
and details of the column wings and crest are fairly intermediate between 
those of the two parents. O. X stauroides and O. X elegantius are forms 
of the same hybrid, whose history has already been given (O. R., ii., 
pp- 140, I4I; ix., p. 56), and I now believe that O. xX Brandtii also 
belongs here, not to O. x excellens, as formerly supposed, though I have 
only seen the published figure (Gartenfl. 1889, pp. 378, 537, t. 1308). 
R. A. ROLFE. 
EPIDENDRUM CHIONEUM. 
Too frequently species which are well known to botanists from herbarium 
specimens receive a new name on their first appearance in cultivation, and 
this has been the case with the present one, which is now in flower at 
Kew. It was described by Lindley, in 1845 (Bot. Reg., xxxi., Misc., p. 
73), from specimens collected by M. J. Linden at Parano, between 
Ventra Quemada and Tunja, in New Grenada, at 12,000 feet altitude. 
It was noted as having the flowers pure white, in small close heads, 
an irch or more long. For its introduction to cultivation we are indebted 
to M. Fl. Claes, of Brussels, but unfortunately it has been re-described 
by M. Cogniaux as E. Claesianum (Gard. Chron., 1901, i., p. 70, fig. 27) 
It is noted as a charming species, growing in sturdy clumps, and very 
floriferous. It received a Botanical Certificate from the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society on January 15th, rgoo, and is said to have first flowered 
in cultivation in the previous November. M. Claes is said to have 
collected it in Columbia, in 1899, at an altitude of 6,825 feet. 
R. A. Rore. 
LYCASTE SKINNERI. 
A TWIN-FLOWERED scape of Lycaste Skinneri alba was exhibited by 
J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate, at the R.H.S. meeting on 
January 27th; together with a plant of L. S. Enchantress showing twin 
bulbs, both of them being very unusual and interesting occurrences. Mr. 
Bradshaw sends the following particulars :—“‘ L. Skinneri alba threw up 
