156 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1908. 
STAUROPSIS SOLOMONENSIS, Rolfe (p- 72).—A Solomon Island species, 
collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford. It is allied to S. Englerianum, Kranzl., 
and is said to be common throughout the Islands. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
SEVERAL beautiful flowers ars sent from the collection of G. Hamilton 
Smith, Esq., by Mr. Coningsby. Cattleya Schroedere, Westfield var., is a 
bright rose-pink form, with the usual yellow disc, which was purchased at a 
recent sale of the Westfield collection. Two good C. Mendelii are from 
imported plants obtained two years ago from Messrs. Stanley & Co., and 
one has pink, the other blush white ground colour. Lelia x La Perle is a 
form of L. X Degeestiana, a beautiful hybrid from L. flava and L. Jongheana, 
having white sepals and petals, and a deep yellow lip. It is one of a spike 
of five flowers. 
A pretty rose-tinted form of Odontoglossum Pescatorei with a few spots 
on the segments, contrasts effectively with the typical form. There is also 
a good form of O. X Adriane, and two of O. x Andersonianum, the latter 
being heavily blotched with dark crimson and very handsome, and the 
richly coloured Oncidium cullatum, from a plant imported last November. 
Mr. Coningsby suggests that it might make a very interesting cross with 
Odontoglossum crispum if this could be effected. 
A number of fine things are sent from the collection of J. J. Neale, Esq., 
of Penarth, by Mr. Haddon. There is a very fine panicle of Renanthera 
Imschootiana with four side branches, and an aggregate of forty flowers. 
Mr. Haddon remarks that the plant grows well in the warm house. There 
is alsoa flower of Scuticaria Hadwenii, which is said to thrive well on 
blocks hung on a moist wall close to the glass, where it gets plenty of sun. 
There are good flowers of Cattleya Skinneri, and C. Lawrenceana, Lzlio- 
cattleya Schilleriana, Dendrobium infundibulum, a fine D. clavatum, D. 
primulinum, Sobralia leucoxantha, Rodriguezia secunda, Vanda teres, 
Odontoglossum pulchellum, Masdevallia leontoglossa, M. ludibunda, M. 
caudata, M. simula, Oncidium micropogon, Phragmopedilum x Schreedere, 
Polystachya tessellata, or a nearly allied West African species, and a flower 
that we take to be a form of Lelia Cowanii, the whole forming a most 
interesting series. 
Some beautiful Dendrobiums are sent from the collection of G. W. 
Jessop, Esq., Rawdon, Leeds (gr. Mr. Wilkinson). Two flowers of Dux 
Euterpe var. Olive (nobile Sanderianum x Warnianum album), from the same 
pseudobulb, are remarkable, one having all the segments heavily tipped with 
rich rose-purple, and the ground colour flushed with pink, while the other is 
nearly white with only a slight tinge of purple at the apex of three of the 
segments. Mr. Jessop can only account for the difference by the coloured 
