﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[July, 1904. 



success. This brilliant acquisition received the double award of a First- 

 class Certificate and a Silver-gilt Lindley Medal. We have since seen a 

 photograph of the plant, which shows two pseudo-bulbs, each bearing three 

 leaves, and a young growth. The second bulb is large, and most resembles 

 O. Pescatorei in character, a remark which also applies to the foliage. The 

 photograph was taken by Mr. E. C. Hart. 



Odontoglossum Pescatorei (fig. 35) is one of the best known species 

 in the genus, and has been cultivated for upwards of half a century. It was 

 discovered by Funck and Schlim, in January, 1847, near Pamplona, in the 

 province of Ocana, and was described by Reichenbach two years later under 

 the name of O. nobile {Linncea, xxii., p. 850). Plants were sent to the 

 establishment of M. Linden, at Brussels, where it flowered for the first time 

 in Europe in 1851. Whether its identity with O. nobile was then known 

 is uncertain, but it received the name of O. Pescatorei, Linden, under 

 which it was figured and described by Lindley {Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii.j t. 90) in 

 852. It afterwards formed the subject of the first plate of Pescatorea, and 

 has been known by its later name ever since. It is now known to be 

 common in the province of Ocana, and is said to be spread over an area of 

 about thirty square leagues, occupying a vertical range of between 6,000 ft. 

 and 9,000 ft. elevation. It is a very beautiful species, but far less variable 

 than O. crispum, and not nearly as widely grown. The form figured has a 

 few small spots on the petals, and is from the collection of R. G. Thwaites, 

 Esq., of Streatham. 



Cochlioda Xcetzliana (tig. 36) has proved to be a very brilliant intro- 

 duction. It first appeared at a meeting of the R.H.S. on November nth, 

 1890, when it was exhibited by Messrs. Linden, of Brussels, under the name 

 of Odontoglossum Ncezlianum, and received a Botanical Certificate. It 

 was described as " a dwarf, delicate-growing novelty, with small circular 

 bright scarlet flowers " {Gard. Chron., 1890, ii., pp. 570, 602). It was at 

 once apparent that it was not an Odontoglossum, and consequently it was 

 transferred to Cochlioda (Rolfe in Lindenia, v'u, t. 266). The species is a 

 native of Northern Peru, and was discovered by M. Jean Notzli, who sent 

 plants to Messrs. Linden. Some time afterwards it was also introduced by 

 Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co. It was named after its dis- 

 coverer, though from a mistake in spelling his name the specific name was 

 at first given as Noezliana, which was corrected when discovered (0. R., ii., 

 p. 268). The fact of a hybrid being successfully raised from it is interesting, 

 in view of a note which appeared in these pages in 1899, m an account of 

 the collection at Walton Grange :— " It is curious to note that for three years 

 efforts have been made to obtain capsules of this plant, many crosses being 

 tried, but without success. Two pods only formed, but these ultimately 



