THE 



ORCHID WORLD. 



AUGUST, 1914. 



No. 

 11. 



NOTES. 



A Notable Exhibit. — At the recent 

 Royal Norfolk Agricultural Show a Gold 

 Medal as well as a Silver Cup were awarded 

 to Messrs. Armstrong and Brown, Tunbridge 

 Wells, for a splendid exhibit of Orchids. 



Abnormal Odontoglossum. — Mr. Wm. 

 Thompson, Walton Grange, Stone, sends an 

 interesting spike of Odontoglossum crispum 

 in which the median stamen of the outer 

 whorl, usually fertile, has assumed the form of 

 an extra petal, so that each flower has three 

 [)etals in addition to the labellum. The two 

 lateral stamens of the inner whorl, usually in 

 the form of staminodes and termed the side 

 wings of the column, are in fertile condition. 

 All the flowers on the spike are similarly 

 constructed. The same event happened last 

 season, and is evidently constant in this 

 particular plant. 



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Barkeria SPECTABILIS. — This is one of 

 many interesting plants in M. Lionet's noted 

 C(jllection at Brunoy, France. The cylin- 

 flrical sterns are five or six inches high and 

 carry three or four lanceolate leaves. The 

 flowers are produced from the apex of the 

 stem in the form of a raceme, and are whitish 

 with rose-lilac suffusion and the labellum 

 spotted with blood-red. It is a summer 

 blooming species and a native of Mexico and 

 Guatemala. Years ago it was a favourite 

 plant, and specimens have been seen with 

 upwards of twenty spikes of bloom. It is 

 rarely seen in present-day collections. 



MiLTONIA VEXILLARIA. — Professor Reich- 

 enbach described this species under somewhat 

 strange and difficult circumstances, the flower 

 being only lent to him by a friend, who made 

 him promise that he would not show it to 

 anyone else, nor make a drawing or take a 

 photograph of it, or even look at it himself 

 more than three times. 



Orchid Sale. — Duplicate plants from the 

 Marlfiekl collection were sold at West Derby, 

 Liverpool, by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris, 

 July 8th, 1 91 4. The following prices are of 

 interest: — Odontoglossum Richd. le Doux, 

 40 gns. ; O. Mrs. Edith Carlisle, 34 gns. ; O. 

 Grand Duke Michael, 20 gns. ; O. Mrs. 

 Phoebe Fletcher, 17 gns.; O. Lord Pirrie, 

 44 gns. ; O. Lady Pirrie, 40 gns. ; O. Countess 

 of Sefton, 18 gns. ; Cattleya Adula, 20 gns. ; 

 C. Lord Rothschild, g gns. ; C. Mrs. Pitt, 

 Charlesworth's var., 16 gns. ; C. Suzanne Hye 

 de Crom, 20 gns. ; C. labiata alba Mrs. E. 

 Ashworth, 22 gns. ; C. labiata Gilmouriae, 

 small plant, 21 gns. ; C. labiata alba Richd. le 

 Doux, 17 gns.; Laelio-Cattleya Bola var. R. 

 le Doux, 17 gns; and L.-C. .St. Gothard, 

 Marlficld var., 36 gns. 



Dendrobium CHRYSOTOXUM. — This showy 

 species, of which Mr. C. F. Waters, Dean- 

 lands Nurseries, Balcombe, Sussex, has just 

 received a small importation, is an upright- 

 growing evergreen plant, with thick fleshy 

 stems about a foot in height, and bearing 

 three or ftnir large dark green leaves of 

 leathery texture. The lateral racemes consist 



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