OcTOBER, 1908.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 295 
Jeremiah Colman, Bart. His successor is Mr. John Collier, late gardener to 
G. Singer, Esq., Coundon Court, Coventry, under whose care there is reason 
to believe that the high reputation of the collection wil! be maintained. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CROCIDIPTERUM. 
A plant of this rare species has appeared in the establishment of M. Theo- 
dor Franke, Gross Ottersleben, Germany, in an importation of O. nobile 
(Pescatorei). The species was described by Reichenbach in 1871 (Gard. 
Chron., 1871, p. 1129), the author comparing it with O. nevium and O. 
odoratum, but remarking that it differed in its many-fringed columa wings, 
which took the place of the single bristle. It had been received from Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co., and from John Day, Esq. The latter flowered it in 
August, 1871, and made a drawing (Orch. Draw., xvi. t. 13), recording the 
fact that he had purchased it a year before from Messrs. Low, who had im- 
ported it with O.triumphans and other species. It was discovered by 
Bruckmiiller, when collecting for Messrs. Low, and is said to occupy a 
limited range on the Eastern Cordillera between Ocana and Pamplona, at 
an altitude of 6,000 to 7,500 feet, growing on the branches of trees in partial 
shade, occasionally in company with O. triumphans. The plant is much 
like O. blandum in habit, but the flowers are more like O. odoratum, the 
sepals and petals being light-yellow, spotted with brown, and the lip white 
at the base and brown in front. The flowers have a pleasant hawthorn-like 
fragrance. Mr. Day made a second drawing in December 1882 (Orch. Draw., 
XXxil, t. 23), from a plant which flowered with Messrs. Veitch, and there is 
also a published figure (Rehb. f. Xen. Orch. ii., p. 209, t. 192, fig. gin but the 
species has always been rare in cultivation. » Re 
CATTLEYA x ~ CLAESIANA. 
WITH reference to the parentage suggested tor Cattleya X Claesiana at page 
287, M. Florent Claes writes that he thinks it correct, for he himself 
collected the plant in the hot lowlands, in January, 1893, though it was not 
then in flower, and he thinks that the information given by M. Forget about 
C. Harrisoniana and C. Loddigesii is correct. It would be interesting if 
some one would now cross C. Harrisoniana and C. intermedia together, 
and let us know the result. 
Respecting the habitat of C. velutina, M. Claes remarks that he found 
the species not far distant from the place where he found the first plants of 
C. Alexandre (now known to be identical with C. elongata). This species 
M. Claes states is most floriferous in its native country, even small bulbs 
producing spikes. Unfortunately it has now become extremely rare in our 
collections, and a difficulty seems to have been found in cultivating it 
successfully. 
