176 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JuNE, 1903. 
was sown in July, rgor, and the growth from which the inflorescence sent 
was cut is said to have been less than a foot long. The flowers are at 
present 17 inches broad, and the colour is dark orange-scarlet, rather 
redder than in E. radicans. The lip is very strongly three-lobed, and each 
lobe is strongly fimbriate, the front lobe being also emarginate, with a. 
shallow keel extending from the crest to near the apex. The column is less 
curved than in E. radicans. The leaves are oblong, and 2-24 inches long 
by 4 by 2 inches broad. Itis a brilliantly flowered hybrid, and when the 
plant becomes as strong as those of E. x Burtoni, noted at page 134, it 
will be an extremely handsome thing. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X VIOLETT#.—An interesting hybrid, raised in the 
collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., of Teignmouth, from Paphiopedilum 
- venustum ? and P. x Sallieri ¢,and much resembling a large form of 
L & Crossianum, though with some traces of its grandparent P. villosum. 
It is the result of one of Mr. Clark’s first experiments in hybridisation, 
made in January, 1897, of which an interesting account was given - page 
163 of our sixth volume. Mr. Clark has about 23 seedlings (this being the 
first to flower), and one only from the reverse cross. The seed was sown in 
March, 1898, when the pod ripened, and it is curious to note that the reverse 
cross, made on the same day, ripened in October,’ 1897, six months earlier. 
It will be interesting to see the amount of variation in these seedlings as 
they reach the flowering stage. The plant is named after Mr. Clark’s. 
youngest daughter. 
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DENDROBIUM SPATHACEUM. 5 
THIs is a curious little white-flowered species which was described by 
Lindley in 1858 (Journ. Linn. Soc. lii., p. 15), from a specimen collected by 
r. J. D. Hooker, on rocks by the Lachen River, Sikkim, at an altitude 
of 6,000 to 7,000ft., and of which nothing further is known up to the ad 
sent time. - King and Pantling reduce it to D. candidum, Wall., but with- 
“out having seen it, for they remark: ‘Judging by the descriptions of D.. 
spathaceum, Lindl., that Species must be identical with D. candidum.” A 
plant has now flowered at Kew which 
bulbs, and the flowers are quite similar instructure. It is one of ten Orchids. 
collectedin Sikkim and Khasia by Mrs. Clementina Adie, of Cambridge, and, 
I believe, represents the missing plant. 
chin short and obtuse, 
the disc, and the front 
has the same very slender pseudo- 
Owers smaller, but it may be a very slender 
In any case it is interesting to see the plant 
R. A. ROLFE. 
form of the same Species. 
again. 
