NOVEMBER, 190}3.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 343. 
ANTHOGONIUM GRACILE. 
Tuis is a very interesting Bletia-like Orchid which has recently flowered 
in the collection of Mrs. Brightwen, The Grange, Stanmore (gr. Mr. 
Odell). It is a native of Northern India, being found in Nepal, Sikkim, 
the Khasia and Naga hills, Burma, and Yunnan, ranging from about 4,000 
to 7,000 feet altitude. It was originally described by Lindley (Gen. and Sp. 
Orch., p. 426), and has recently been figured by King and Pantling (Ann. 
R. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii., p. 96, t. 134). The whole plant is much like a 
Bletia, though the flowers are quite different in structure. They are about 
7 to g lines long, and narrow at the base, but broader and more spreading 
at the apex. Their colour is purple, with some darker spots on the lip, 
which organ becomes white near the apex, while the anther is yellow. 
White varieties are said to be not uncommon. The lip is narrowly funnel- 
shaped, and set at right angles on the pedicels, so that a flower with the 
sepals and petals removed looks like a miniature tobacco pipe. It also 
flowered in the collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq., in the autumn of 1894. 
R. A. K. 
ORCHIDS FROM BRADFORD. 
SEVERAL very beautiful hybrids are sent by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., 
Heaton, Bradford, all of which have been raised in their establishment. 
First may be mentioned the extremely brilliant Lzlio-cattleya X Sunray 
(L. cinnabarina X C. superba), which has orange-vermilion sepals, rather 
darker petals, and a three-lobed intense purple-crimson lip, with a deep 
yellow disc lined with crimson. L.-c. xX luminosa (L.,tenebrosa xX C. 
Dowiana aurea) closely resembles the seed parent in shape, but the colour 
of the sepals and petals is light coppery-yellow, veined with light red-purple, 
and of the lip very deep velvety purple, with a slight trace of yellow veining 
on the disc. It is a large and handsome hybrid, and is also known under 
the name of L.-c. X Truffautiana. Cattleya X Iris (bicolor xX Dowiana 
aurea) is represented by two large and very handsome flowers, having the 
sepals and petals of a rich bronzy brown, and the lip of the richest 
purple-crimson, with faint traces of yellow veining on the disc, and 
the small side lobes yellow. It is curious how little the shape of C. bicolor 
has been modified ; the petals are broadened out to 14 inches across, and 
the front of the lip to two inches, while at the base of the latter occur a pair 
of rounded auricles, five or six lines long, which clasp the column; and 
these characters are, of course, due to the influence of C. Dowiana. It is an 
extremely beautifel hybrid, and Messrs. Charlesworth consider it one of the 
best they have yet raised. C. xX Mrs. Pitt (Harrisoniana xX Dowiana 
