﻿34 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [February, 1904. 



the petals of well-grown examples are now known to attain a length 

 of thirty-two inches/ Lindley here gave an enumeration of the 

 tropical Cypripedes then known, the number being ten, seven of them 

 Asiatic and three American. 



The work just mentioned was commenced at this period, as a monthly 

 journal, under the editorship of John Lindley and Joseph Paxton, and 

 replaced to some extent the defunct Botanical Register, for in addition to 

 coloured plates of the more striking novelties, certain pages were set apart 

 for "Gleanings and Original Memoranda," some of the plants being illus- 

 trated by woodcuts, and, as might have been anticipated from Dr. Lindley's- 

 connection with the work, the interests of Orchidology were well looked 

 after. 



It may be interesting to enumerate the Orchids illustrated in colour 

 in the first volume, which were as follows --Cattleya Walkeriana (t. 3), 

 Oncidium hsematochilum (t. 6), Cypripedium caudatum (t. 9), Trichopilia 

 suavis (t. 11), Odontoglossum Cervantesii (t. 15), O. nawium (t. 18), 

 Oncidium sessile ft. 21), Cattleya labiata (t. 24), Dendrobium transparent 

 (t. 27), Epidendrum longipetalum (t. 30), Oncidium variegatum (t. 33), and 

 Vanda ccerulea (t. 36), just one-third of the whole, and it may be noticed 

 that one Orchid appeared in each number. 



A few of these deserve to be further noticed. Odontoglossum nawium 

 is said to have been " sent to England several years since by Sir 

 R. Schomburgk, and was exhibited by Mr. Loddiges at one of the Spring 

 Meetings of the Horticultural Society in the present year." The record 

 of origin, however, seems open to question, and in any case we are told 

 that M. Linden is offering good plants of this and O. odoratum "at the 

 modest price of two guineas each." Trichopilia suavis was another 

 beautiful novelty, which flowered in the collection of R. S. Holfoid, Esq., 

 and also about the same time with Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Loddiges. 

 Of Vanda ccerulea we read: — "The honour of having introduced this, 

 glorious plant belongs to Messrs. Veitch, who received it from their 

 invaluable traveller, Mr. Thomas Lobb." 



Laelia grandis now appeared for the first time (p.. 60, fig. 38), being sent 

 to Lindley by M. Morel, of Paris, with whom it flowered. A woodcut of 

 Calanthe vestita also appeared (p. jo6, fig. 72). This plant was described 

 as a very handsome terrestrial Orchid introduced from Burma, by Messrs. 

 Veitch, and we read : — " A large silver medal, the highest ever given in. 

 Regent Street, was awarded to this plant by the Horticultural Society on 

 the 7th of Nov., 1N48, when it was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch for the first 

 time. Oncidium varicosum (p. 106) was described as a fine stove Orchid 

 from Brazil, introduced by M. Jonghe, of Brussels, and flowered at Chiswick 

 in October 1849. 



