14 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1903. 
O. Cc. HELIOTROPIUM (fig. 5) is a very charming variety from the collec- 
tion of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, N.B., which received a 
First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. on April 27th, 1897. The shape 
and details of the flower are excellent, and the ground colour is 
bright lilac-rose, with red-brown spots, those on the petals being 
rather smaller and more numerous than the others. The raceme 
bore eleven flowers. It is one of a group of named _ varieties 
characterised by having the sepals and petals more or less deeply suffused 
with rose-pink or lilac, and the spots varying considerably in size and 
number. Of these we may mention, as having been figured, the varieties 
Fic. 5. O. Cc. HELIOTROPIUM. 
purpurascens, plumatum and ocellatum, while meleagris is in some 
respects intermediate between this and the guttatum type. When the 
spots are absent we get forms which are often cultivated under the name of 
O. c. roseum, but the name is sometimes also applied to spotted forms that 
have a rosy ground colour. 
Between the foregoing and the typical form a host of intermediates 
occur, among which we may mention those of the Trianz group, in which 
the spots are confined to the sepals and lip. The variety xanthotes is one 
of these, in which the spots are wholly bright yellow in colour, and two or 
three other forms are somewhat similar in this respect. 
