﻿July, 1904.J 



THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



by Baron Schroder at the recent Temple Show, and furnished an oppor- 

 tunity for further comparison in the light of the new facts. So far as I know 

 nothing like it has since appeared, not even among white forms of O X 

 Coradinei, some of which I have been ;ible to compare with it. In shape 

 and size it agrees better with O. triumphans than with O. Lindleyanum, 

 and a comparison with their respective hybrids only confirms the impres- 

 sion. It appeared at about the same time as O. X harvengtense, and may 

 well have come among O. crispum from the same region, and although I 

 have not yet seen another form approaching it very closely, I suspect that 

 O. X harvengtense var. mirabile is the name which it will ultimately have 

 to bear. The figure of this handsome variety was repeated at page 12 of 

 the present volume. R. A. ROLFE. 



EPIDENDRUM ADVENA. 



Epidendrum advena is a Brazilian species which was described by 

 Reichenbach in 1872 {Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1194), from the collection of 

 O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, but seems to have since been lost 

 sight of. In looking up a figure in the late John Day's Orchid drawings 

 (vol. xxxvii., t. 35) I came across an excellent figure, drawn on August 8th, 



1S83. The history is given as follows :— " A very nice Epidendrum, 

 imported from Brazil by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. The bulbs are 3 to 4 

 inches long by f in. diameter, nearly cylindrical, somewhat sulcate in age. 

 Leaves 2, ligulate, obtuse, very coriaceous, 12 to 14 inches long by f to il, 

 broad. Scape 33 inches, with 3 or 4 branches, rather distant, bearing 5 to 

 7 flowers each. Flowers of this very scape were sent to the Professor, who 

 gave the name as above." I instantly recognised an excellent drawing of 

 E. osmanthum, Rodr., which was described nine years later, a plant now 

 well known in cultivation, and it is rather curious that no one has since 

 recognised it. Reichenbach described E. advena as " a beautiful species, 

 with numerous unusually large flowers, nearly two-thirds the size of those 

 of E. atropurpureum (macrochilum). Sepals and petals yellowish, with a 

 full tessellation of radiating brown veins. Lip yellowish white with 

 purplish streaks in middle line. Column green with yellow emarginate 

 anther." No one seems to have been able to make out what the plant was, 

 and Cogniaux, in his recent revision, enumerated it as a distinct species of 

 Reichenbach of which the exact locality was unknown {Mart. FL Bras., hi., 

 pt. 5, p. 62). E. osmanthum is treated as distinct, but must now be 

 regarded as synonymous. The history of the latter has already been given 

 (0. R., iv., p. 291). It is interesting to be able to clear up the history of 

 another lost garden plant. 



R. A. R. 



