JANUARY, 1003.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 21 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
WE have now a most extensive series of winter-blooming Orchids, owing | 
to large introductions of some of the well-known old species, and to the large 
and constantly increasing class of hybrids raised from them, so that during 
the autumn and winter months our houses are now almost as gay as during 
the early summer. The autumn-blooming Calanthes are now making a 
brave show, the beautiful C. x Veitchii being still one of the most useful, 
and at the moment of writing it is literally making a blaze of colour. 
A fine six-flowered inflorescence of what we take to be a hybrid between - 
Cattleya Bowringiana and C. labiata—hence a form of C. x Portia—is 
sent from the collection of Sir James Miller, Bart., of Manderston, Duns, 
N.B., by Mr. Hamilton, and shows how useful a plant it is at this dull 
season. It has the brilliant colour of both parents, and is fairly intermediate 
in other respects. It was purchased with the record “ Lelia tenebrosa x 
Cattleya Bowringiana,” but the pollen is pure Cattleya, and there is no other 
trace of Lelia parentage, from which we conclude that some label has gone 
astray. : 
A beautiful form of Cattleya Bowringiana is sent from the collection of 
Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool. It is good in shape and 
very richly coloured, with a pale throat to the lip, closely veined with 
purple. 
Mr. Young also sends some pretty hybrid Paphiopedilums, a group in 
which he is specially interested. There are the two P. Mastersianum 
crosses, P. X Lawrenceano-Mastersianum and P. x Endymion, the latter 
from P. barbatum, and rather the better flower. A new seedling of P. x 
Tryonianum (P. X Harrisianum giganteum ? x P. superbiens Demidoff 
var. $), raised from seed sown in July, 1897, has the dark .colour of the 
former parent largely obliterated. A plant purchased as P. insigne 
Macfarlanei has the lower part of the dorsal sepal suffused with dusky 
brown, and thus differs from the original description. 
Flowers of the pretty little Epidendrum dichromum are sent from the 
collection of John W. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool. It is a 
Brazilian species with rose-purple flowers, smaller than those of E. 
atropurpureum. 
A good pure white form of Odontoglossum crispum is sent from the 
collection of E. J. Lovell, Esq., Oakhurst, Oxted, Surrey, the only brown 
markings, beside the yellow disc, being on the column and stalk of the lip. 
A second flower represents a fairly average form. The spike bears twelve 
flowers, and Mr. Jones remarks that it is avery pretty acquisition at this 
dull season. Flowers of the beautiful Paphiopedilum insigne Sander 
and P. i. Harefield Hall var. are also enclosed, together with a good 
