‘94 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ MARCH, 1903. 
O. c. Marr@ received a First-class Certificate from the Manchester 
Orchid Society on February 17th last. It has very broad white segments 
with just the faintest tinge of blush on the lateral sepals. The spots are 
deep red-brown colour, those on the sepals confluent into two and in the 
petals into one irregular blotch, with a few detached spots. The spots on 
the lip are smaller but similar in colour. 
O. c. MAaRiE CorRELLI is dedicated by special permission to the lady 
whose name it bears. The segments are broad, and white, with just a 
faint tinge of blush in the sepals, and the petals are slightly toothed. The 
blotches are purple, large, aggregated and more or less confluent in the 
centre of the segments, and thus forming a zone. There is one large blotch 
of similar colour on the lip in front of the crest, and a few smaller ones at 
the sides. It is very handsome. 
All three forms are extremely beautiful, but how far they are distinct 
from the multitude of others previously described it is impossible to say. 
It was recently asserted, by Mr. Crawshay, that of the numerous blotched 
forms of O. crispum “there are no two in cultivation that are identical,” 
and in the sense that no two individuals are ever exactly alike it may be 
true, but scarcely in any wider sense. We have repeatedly observed that the 
markings are not always identical in different flowers on the same inflores- 
cence, and they sometimes vary from year to year, according to the vigour 
of the plant. It would be extremely instructive if all the named forms could 
be compared side by side, but this is manifestly impossible, and descrip- 
tions fail to convey a complete idea of their peculiarities. Photography and 
accurately coloured drawings can alone effect this, and when the two can 
be combined, as we believe they will be in the new three-colour process, we 
hope that some of the difficulties of adequately dealing with the ‘‘ variety 
-question ” will be removed. 
DENDROBIUM AUREUM CINNAMOMEUM.—Another plant of this distinct 
and very pretty Dendrobium has appeared, a flower having been sent by Mr. 
T. Townsend, F.R.H.S., of Glasgow. It differs from the type in having 
the flower suffused throughout with light copper colour, though it agrees in 
all other respects. Mr. Townsend remarks that it came in an importation 
-of the type—a flower of which is also sent for comparison—and that it was 
the only plant showing this particular colour. _All the flowers were alike. 
A plant of this variety flowered in the collection of Fred. Hardy, Esq., of 
Ashton-on-Mersey, in December, 1897, and was noted at page 3 of our 
‘sixth volume. . 
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