THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[April, 1915. 



well on account of the many suitable spots 

 that experience has discovered for their 

 accommodation. Coelogyne sparsa yields an 

 abundance of pretty flowers, as also does 

 Angra?cum hyaloides, Collabuim nebulosum, 

 and Sarchorhilus Fitzgeraldii. Masdevallias 

 comprise a 

 most varied 

 collect ion, 

 runnmg into 

 hundreds of 

 species and 

 \ arieties. The 

 quanit M. 

 C h i m a? r a 

 with its aurea 

 varieties, the 

 curious M. 

 inacrura and 

 M. elephanti- 

 ceps have an 

 interest all 

 their own, 

 while the 

 Gatton Park 

 variety of M. 

 Harryana re- 

 ceived a n 

 Award o t 

 Merit, May 

 2gth, iQOf). 



A m o n g st 

 the Bulbo- 

 p h y Hums 

 there i*5 the 

 scarce B. sal- 

 tatorium, a 

 name which 

 indicates the dancing nature of the wonder- 

 fully constructed labellum, also B. lemnis- 

 catoides, a remarkable species which received 

 a Botanical Certificate in igog. Other 

 notable representatives are B. Ericssonii, B. 

 Reinwardtii, B. galbinum and B. mirum, the 

 hitter indeed wonderful, for the petals consist 

 of a small rounded disc, on the back of 

 which IS a tuft of about twenty slender 

 filaments that move about with the slightest 

 breeze. Cirrhopetalum retusiusculum and 

 C. Fascinator have both received awards 



when exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 

 .Society. 



Epidendrum Boundii, raised in this 

 collection by crossing radicans and Burtonii, 

 is of considerable decorative value, not only 

 on account of the wide range of colour, 



1 n eluding 

 orange - red, 

 orange and 

 lilac, but also 

 for the im- 

 mense time 

 1 n d 1 V i d ual 

 stems con- 

 tinue to pro- 

 duce flowers 

 from the 

 apex of the 

 e 1 o n g a ting 

 s ]:) i k e s , 

 twelve 

 months being 

 u i t e the 

 usual period. 

 On one occa- 

 sion a spike 

 continued to 

 produce 

 flowers for 

 more than 

 two years ; 

 and was ex- 

 hibited a t 

 three con- 

 s e c u t i \- e 

 Temple 

 Shows, thus 

 creating what 

 is believed to be a record. There are some 

 interesting seedlings to be seen in a cross 

 between E. prismatocarpum and E. fragrans. 

 Epi-Diacrium Boundii, the result of crossing 

 Epidendrum Ellisii and Diacrium bicornutum, 

 and Dia-Cattleya Colmania? (D. bicornutum 

 X C. intermedia) are interesting batches of 

 hybrids, the majority of the pseudo-bulbs 

 being hollow, as in the Diacrium parent. 



1 he elegant Oncidium Cla?sii, very rarely 

 seen in flower, produced a fine inflorescence 

 m May, igi i, when it was exhibited at the 



Odonloglossum Queen of Gallon. (R H S. Journal.) 



