﻿March, 1904.] 



THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



peculiar to the variety Sanderiana, yet I altered the label to L. a. Stella ; 

 in 1901, 1902, and 1903 it came the same as in 1900 ; it was shown and 

 commented upon at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting as true 

 L. a. Stella. This year it has come again L. a. Sanderiana, having a 

 well denned blotch on the tip of the lip. By no chance can it be that 

 there are two species in the pan, for each year it has produced four spikes 

 annually, previous to this year, and the flowers on all the spikes were the 

 the same ; this year it had three spikes from the same lead that flowered 

 last season and previously, and the flowers on each spike are true to L. a. 

 Sanderiana. I shall be interested, to know if anyone else has experienced 

 a similar case." Mr. Bound adds : — " My note will seem incredible to 

 many, but I am certain that it is correct." 



Another case of variation is recorded by Mr. W. H. Clarke, Aston 

 Rowant House Gardens, Oxon. (page 121), this, however, being in one of 

 the coloured forms. Mr. Clarke writes: — " Never before have I noticed 

 such variation as there is among some of my flowers. Distinct white 

 rays ran through the rose-lilac colour of each petal. All the flowers on one 

 scape were the same, but other flowers on the same plant were true to th? 



type-" _____ 



CYMBIDIUM WILSONI. 



This is a very interesting Cymbidium introduced from Yunnan by Messrs. 

 James Veitch cS; Sons, through their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson. It is allied 

 to the Himalayan C. giganteum, and as that species has recently been 

 collected in Yunnan by Dr. Augustine Henry it was a question when first 

 compared whether it might not be a dwarf form of that species. It is, 

 however, much smaller, the leaves measuring only some 12 to 14 inches 

 long by 6 to 8 lines broad, and the pseudobulbs i| inches long by 1 inch 

 broad. The scape is also much more slender, and at present bears five 

 flowers, which are little smaller than those of C. giganteum, measuring 3! 

 inches in expanse, while the hairs on the lip are distinctly shorter, though 

 very numerous. The flowers are as fragrant as in C. Tracyanum. The 

 sepals and petals are light green, with a slight brownish tinge, and rows of 

 minute reddish-brown dots, especially on the petals. The lip is whitish 

 yellow, strongly lined with red-brown on the side lobes, a few spots also 

 occurring towards the apex and along the prominent hairy keel : while the 

 margin'of the undulate front lobe is also marbled with brown, and a similar 

 narrow line extends down the centre of the disc from apex to base. A plant 

 was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at the R.H.S. meeting on February 23rd, 

 and obtained an Award of Merit. It is an interesting addition to the genus. 



R. A. Rolfe. 



