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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



margin, the colour being here broken up in front into radiating lines. The 

 throat is completely covered with long shaggy rosy crimson hairs, all more or 

 less curved, and the lower somewhat retrorse. These hairs extend upwards 

 on the disc in two diverging bands on either side of the V-shaped marking. 

 The column is 10 lines long, and slightly curved. A figure has been prepared 

 for the Botanical Magazine. Reichenbach does not mention the colour of 

 the stem or flowers, and probably did not know them, but Humblofs dried 

 specimens show traces of similar warts on the stem, and the flowers are 

 similar, including the remarkable hairiness on the lip, hence the belief 

 that the two are identical. V. Phalamopsis, Rchb. f., has smooth bright 

 green stems, and smaller flowers, of different colour, besides having only two 

 lines of slender hairs on the lip. It is a native of the Seychelle Islands. 



R. A. ROLFE. 



ORCHIDS FROM LLANDUDNO. 



Several beautiful Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of Joseph 

 Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno (gr. Mr. Axtell). Five are excellent 

 forms of O. crispum, of which three are about typical, having very broad, 

 undulate, blush white segments, with a few brown spots on the lip. Another 

 is equally good in shape, but the sepals and lip are prettily spotted with 

 brown and the petals pure white, forming a most effective contrast. The 

 remaining one has a great purple-brown blotch above the middle of each 

 segment and a few small additional ones on the broad lip— a really striking 

 flower. Two others are excellent forms of O. luteopurpureum, with the 

 sepals wholly rich brown, except at the base and apex, and the petals and 

 lip handsomely marked. O. Hallii leucochilum is a good example of this 

 handsome variety. O. Lindleyanum is represented by a rather small dark 

 form, apparently not fully developed. O. X Adrian* is represented by a fine 

 spike of thirteen flowers, having a very light yellowish ground colour, 

 slightly tinged with rose, and a few red-brown. These are very irregularly 

 distributed, in a few cases the petals being quite unspotted, in others bearing 

 one or two small spots, while on the sepals and lip they are larger and some- 

 times more numerous. It looks very like the developed form of one noted 

 at page 221 of our tenth volume. The remaining flower is very curious, 

 having the sepals, petals, column, and crest of the lip resembling those of 

 O. luteopurpureum in shape and colour, but the front lobe reduced to a 

 narrowly oblong body. It may be a form of this species,, being quite 

 different from O. x mulus. An inflorescence of the interesting Eria 

 sicaria, Lindl. is also enclosed, the flowers being remarkable for having the 

 pedicels and outside of the sepals covered with a dense white tomentum. 

 The rest of the flower is whitish yellow, with a dusky brown crest on the lip. 



