222 THE ORCHID REVIEW. JULy, 1908. 
into antennz, serving the purpose of bringing about the ejection of the 
pollinia when they are touched, the columns of both sexes resemble each 
other. In the female, however, it is much the stouter, the ovary also being 
proportionately thick.” 
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ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
WE have received from the collection of G. Hamilton Smith, Esq., of 
Finchley (gr. Mr. Coningsby), the three-flowered inflorescence of the 
beautiful Lelia xX Pacavia var. Mrs. G. Hamilton Smith, which was 
exhibited at the meeting of the R. H. S. on June 23rd last. It is a fine 
form, with bright rosy lilac sepals and petals, and the lip beautifully veined 
with claret purple. A fine, richly coloured form: of Cattleya Warscewiczil 
is also sent. 
Several beautiful flowers are sent from the collection of H. S. Goodson, 
Esq., Fairlawn, Putney, by Mr. Day. Odontoglossum crispum Mrs. 
Humphrey is a geod form, with clear white ground, well-toothed petals, and 
reddish brown blotches on all the segments. O.c. Rossendale is somewhat 
similar in general character, but the blotches are more cinnamon-brown in 
colour. There are also good forms of O. X altum, O. X percultum and O. 
Xx eximium Goodson’s var., with Cattleya Mossiz, var. Mrs. A. Goodson, 
which received an Award of Merit from the R. H. S.in June, 1906. 
Three flowers of Odontoglossum x Rolfez are sent from the collection 
of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., of Streatham (gr. Mr. Black). They are from 
small seedlings now flowering for the first time, and one of them is 
particularly good in colour. A good dark form of O. X Othello is also sent. 
Several interesting and beautiful Odontoglossums ere sent from the 
collection of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. 
Stables). There is a flower of O. X Coradinei rosefieldense, and two 
seedlings raised from it crossed with a good unspotted O. crispum. One 
has a white ground, and is the one figured at page 241 of our thirteenth 
volume, but it is now greatly improved, being over 2% inches in diameter 
across the petals. The other has a light yellow ground, but is said to 
have been out three weeks, and to be much faded. It is still larger, the 
flower being 3} inches across, and the petals 14 inches broad. The sepals 
and one petal have each a large roundish red-brown blotch, while the other 
petal has a few smaller spots. Flowers are also enclosed of O. X 
Persephone (Pescatorei xX Adriane), a light yellow flower regularly spotted 
with dark brown, and O. X Tristam (triumphans X crispo-Harryanum), the 
latter a large dark form most like O. triumphans in shape, with the 
Harryanum crest and markings well developed. 
A very fine form of Lelia grandiflora (majalis) is sent from the collection 
of A. E. Wilson Browne, Esq., of Sutton Coldfield, which has appeared on 
