156 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (May, 19¢3. 
Bronze Medals were also awarded to Mr. S. Allen, Sale, and Mr. W. 
B. Upjohn, Worsley, for groups; also an Award of Merit to Mr. J. Robson, 
Altrincham, fcr Cattleya Mendelii aurea. 
ODONTOGLOSSUMS FROM NEWCHURCH. 
A very beautiful series of Odontoglossums is sent from the collection of R. 
Ashworth, Esq., Ashlands, Newchurch, near Manchester, by Mr. Pidsley. 
It includes the beautiful O. sceptrum Masereelianum, in which the markings 
are deep yellow on a paler ground ; O. X Andersonianum Edithe, heavily 
marked with red-brown on a light yellow ground, which is more or less 
suffused with rose ; a fine form of O. Pescatorei; a richly coloured O. 
triumphans; four forms of O. Cervantesii, of which the variety decorum 
differs from the others in having the lip prettily spotted with brown ; and 
some very pretty forms of O. X Adriane and O. crispum. The three 
varieties of O. X Adrianz are very distinct, one having a light yellow 
ground and numerous small dark brown spots ; a second nearly white, with 
fewer and larger spots of dark purple brown ; and the third, called Prince 
Leopold, is light yellow, heavily blotched with deep red-brown. On the 
sepals the markings are confluent into very large blotches, which only leave 
_a fewirregular bands of the ground colour, and the upper half of the petals 
is almost monopolised by one large irregular blotch. It is very handsome. 
There are a dozen fine forms of O. crispum, several of them being 
named. O.c. meleagris is a very pretty form, with rose-pink ground colour, 
and many small brown spots on the segments. ©. c. Andromeda has a 
single large red-brown blotch on the centre of the petals, and from one to 
three similar ones on the sepals. In O.c. General Hunter there are from 
nine to twelve partially confluent red-brown spots on each segment, rather 
regularly distributed. Opposed to this regularity in the markings we find 
three others, of the Trianz set, in which the blotches are confined to the 
sepals and lip, leaving the petals white, two of these being very fine in form 
and substance. Two others have the blotches confined to the lip, one 
being almost comparable with O. xX waltonense except in colour. O. ¢. 
Berenice is a pretty light blush, rather copiously spotted form, the sepals 
being rather more rosy than the other segments, and the spots on the 
petals generally much smaller. O.c. Zempelonia is a very puzzling form, 
having numerous red-brown spots, very regularly arrangedon the segments, 
- asin O. X Adrianz, but with the crispum shape and colour. Lastly must 
be mentioned O. c. Lady Primrose, a sulphur yellow variety, having a tinge 
of rose in the sepals, and a few minute brown dots on the lip only, but the true 
crispum shape, crest, and column wings. It is very beautiful, but its exact 
origin, as also that of the one previously mentioned, is somewhat uncertain: 
