330 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (NOVEMBER, 1903. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
Two most beautiful hybrids are sent from the collection of Capt. G. L. 
Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury, by Mr. Alexander. Cattleya x Ins 
Westonbirt var. (bicolor x Dowiana aurea)*has the sepals and petals of a 
clear light yellow, quite different from the bronzy tint seen in the typical 
form (which is also flowering in the collection), while the lip is brilliant 
rose-purple, except at the extreme base, which is deep yellow, also the 
small auriculate side lobes.. The flower is also very large, measuring 5% 
inches across its broadest diameter, while the petals measure 1} inches 
and the lip 2 inches across. It had been expanded five weeks when sent, 
and remained fresh for several days longer. The contrast of colour is very 
striking, and it should be added that the plant was purchased from Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co. last year. The other plant is C. x mollis var. Lois 
(Gaskelliana xX superba), from the plant which received an Award of Merit 
from the Royal Horticultural Society in November, 1g01. It is most like 
C. Gaskelliana in shape, in the nearly entire lip, and the mauve-lilac sepals 
and petals, but there is an increased amount of deep orange yellow in the 
lip. It is difficult to trace the superba influence in the flower, and we have 
not seen the plant. It is certainly very handsome. 
A good form of Odontoglossum Pescatorei is sent from the collection of 
J. H. Grogan, Esq., Slaney Park, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. It is froma 
small plant now flowering for the first time. The flower is white and 
unspotted, with the usual rosy tinge on the sepals. A very good form of 
Paphiopedilum Charlesworthii is also sent, having the dorsal sepal 
2% inches broad, and prettily marbled with rose and white. 
A good form of Miltonia Regnellii, called Gatton Park var., is sent from 
he collection of Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate, by Mr. 
Bound. The sepals and petals are deep brownish yellow, and the lip 
purple. A’‘curious flower of Cattleya bicolor, having only two sepals and 
two petals, is also sent. We have seen this curious dimerous arrangement 
in several other Cattleyas. 
Several beautiful flowers are sent from the collection of R. I. 
Measures, Esy., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, by Mr. Smith. Four of 
them are hybrids of Cattleya Bowringiana, which are invaluable for autumn 
blooming. Cattleya x Mantiaii nobilior is a beautiful spike of ten flowers 
and C. X Wendlandiana, a rather larger and darker form with six flowers. 
C. xX Mrs. J. W. Whiteley may be compared to a fine form'of C. X 
Mantinii. The fourth hybrid isC. x Minerva (Loddigesii x Bowringiana), 
and has light rose-purple sepals and petals, and a very much paler prettily 
undulate entire lip. It is a very pretty hybrid, bearing a marked re- 
semblance to C. Loddigesii in colour, and in the shape of the sepals and 
