Jury, 1908.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 221 
MALFORMED ORCHIDS, 
Tue report of the R.H.S. Scientilic Committee for June gth contains the 
following note :— 
MALFORMED OrcHiIps.—Mr. W. C. Worsdell reported that he had 
examined a specimen of Cattleya intermedia referred to him, in which three 
flowers had become fused together so that there were eighteen perianth 
pieces in the resulting fascinated specimen and three properly formed 
columns. The ovaries, however, were completely absent. Mr. Gurney 
Wilson, of Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, sent flowers of Odontoglossum 
crispum, which were referred to Mr. Worsdell. 
The Report of the meeting of June 23rd contains the following 
references to Orchids :— 
MALFORMED OponTOGLOssuMs.—Mr. Worsdell reported that one of the 
flowers of Odontoglossum crispum received from G. Wilson, Esq., of 
Hayward’s Heath, had the three stamens of the outer whorl all developed, 
instead of only one as usual. The second flower had a normal column and 
normal sepals, but each of the three petals had become partly modified into 
stamens and bore anthers. 
MILTONIA VEXILLARIA.—Baron Sir Henry Schréder sent a spike of 
Miltonia vexillaria with normal flowers, and another with partially double 
flowers, which was borne upon a plant divided from the former a few years 
ago. The parent has always (for over twenty years) borne normal flowers, 
while each year since its separation the offset had produced semi-double 
flowers. 
CATASETUM DISCOLOR. 
THE Gardeners’ Chronicle for June 6th (p. 362) records a very interesting 
case of the occurrence of Catasetum discolor with male and female flowers, 
as follows: “A stout inflorescence of Catasetum discolor, bearing three 
female flowers on one side and three male flowers on the other, is sent by 
“Mr. G. Reynolds, gardener to Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury 
Park, Acton, who states that another spike, bearing male flowers only, was 
also produced. On the inflorescence sent the male flowers are greenish, 
changing toyellow, the shallow galeate labellum being furnished with purplish 
filaments, arranged moustache-like on either side. The female flowers are 
about two inches in length from the top of the upper sepal to the base of 
the deep pot-like fleshy labellum, and about twice the size of the male 
blooms. Both are similar in colour, but in the female flowers the fringe on 
the sides is reduced to a slightly fringed serration on the margin. In both 
sexes of flowers the labellum is uppermost. Since Catasetum discolor 
belongs tothe section in which the rostellum of the male is not prolonged 
