THE ORCHID WORLD. 



Vol. 6. No. 12. 



Nov. -Dec, 1916. 



NOTES. 



Calanthe STRIATA.—This plant has been 

 known to science since the beginning of the 

 seventeenth century, through a drawing by 

 Kacmpfer, the first European naturahst who 

 visited Japan, which he did in the capacity of 

 physician to the Dutch embassy to that 

 country in l6go. It does not appear to have 

 been in cuUivation in European gardens till 

 the middle of the present century, when it was 

 sent to Dr. Lindley by a nurseryman of 

 Ghent. 



Epidendrum VARIEGATUM. — Widely 

 distributed over South America and the West 

 Indies. It is said to have been originally 

 discovered by the French naturalist, Descour- 

 tilz, near Ilha Grande, m Brazil, growing on 

 fallen trees fully exposed to the sun. It was 

 subsequently gathered by Mr. W. Harrison, 

 near Rio de Janeiro, and sent by him to his 

 brother at Liverpool, in whose collection it 

 flowered in 1832. In the course of the next 

 twenty years it was detected by various 

 explorers and plant collectors near the Rio 

 Negro in Brazil, in New Granada, British 

 Guiana, Jamaica, and other places. It is one 

 of the most variable of Epidendra, a circum- 

 stance that may be accounted for by its great 

 diversity of station throughout its extensive 

 habitat. Specimens collected in many locali- 

 ties widely remote from each other were 

 compared by Dr .Lindley, who was persuaded 

 that the various forms were only varieties of 

 one and the same species, some of which he 

 distinguished by name, but they are now 

 known only in herbaria with the exception of 

 coriaceum, which was first introduced from 

 Demerara in 1S37. 



L.ELIA PR.ESTANS. — This rarity may be 

 distinguished by its trumpet-shaped lip, which 

 is not straight as in L. pumila. The convolute 

 side lobes of the lip overlap at their margin, 

 and are stiff in texture, so that they cannot be 

 spread out without splitting. The lines on 

 the orange-yellow disc are almost obsolete, 

 and thus differ considerably from L. Dayana, 

 in which they are very pronounced. 



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Cattleya triumphans. — Among Catt- 

 leyas no problem has proved so difficult to 

 solve as the making of a large flower of yellow 

 colour, and every advance, however small, is 

 keenly criticised by the hybridists who 

 continue the interesting work. An early 

 result was Cattleya triumphans (Rex x aurea), 

 first raised by Messrs. Sander and Sons in 

 July, 1904, when it received an Award of 

 Merit at the Royal Horticultural Society. In 

 the following year M. Maron flowered a 

 similar hybrid. Little more appears to have 

 been heard of C. triumphans until Messrs. 

 Flory and Black exhibited Cattleya King 

 George (triumphans x aurea), a magnificent 

 flower, which was unanimously awarded a 

 First-class Certificate, R.H.S., September 

 28th, 1915. Now we have the pleasure of 

 recording the flowering of C. triumphans in 

 the collection of Baron Bruno Schroder, 

 Englefield Green, Surrey, where a batch of 

 plants has been raised by Mr. J. E. Shill. 

 The large flower has the sepals and petals 

 rich golden-yellow, much more intense than 

 that of C. aurea, while the expansive 

 labellum is mottled with soft rose-crimson. It 

 is a glorious flower, both in colour and in the 

 dimensions of the segments. 



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