ORCHID WORLD. 
FEBRUARY, 1913. 
NOTES 
Maxillaria fucata. — Those who culti- 
vate this attractive species will recognise in 
the bloom the truth of Reichenbach's words 
when he first saw the flower. He remarked : 
"I could not help remembering some harle- 
quins I had seen with the paint not quite 
washed off their faces." 
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Catasetum Darwinianum. — In the col- 
lection of photographs shown at the Royal 
Horticultural Society, January /th, by Mr. 
C. P. RaffiU, was one of Catasetum Darwin- 
ianum bearing three kinds of flov/ers on the 
same spike. The three upper ones were male, 
the lower pair being female, one with the lip 
anterior, and the other posterior. 
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Orchids of Western Australia. — A 
recent issue of the Journal of the Linnean 
Society contains " Additions to the Flora of 
Western and North- Western Australia," by 
Dr. K. Domin, Professor of Botany in the 
Bohemian University at Prague. The species 
and varieties in the Orchidaceae consist of 
Thelymitra, 4 ; Diuris, 4 ; Microtis, i ; Ptero- 
stylis, I ; Lyperanthus, i ; Glossodia, 2 ; and 
Caladenia, 12. Caladenia Dorrienii, a new 
species figured and described by Dr. Domin, 
is named in honour of Capt. A. A. Dorrien- 
Smith, who discovered the plant when on a 
botanising expedition to West Australia, 
October, 1 909. 
Vanda ccerulea album. — Flowers of a 
beautiful variety of this species have been 
received from Capt. Robert Twiss, Bird Hill, 
Limerick. The plant consists of four growths, 
and has been under cultivation in this collec- 
tion for many years. Last season it produced 
eight strong spikes, one of which had 1 5 
flowers. These blooms are well-proportioned 
and, with the exception of a light blue pig- 
ment on the lip, are pure white, the variety 
coming true every year. The apical flower 
differs from the others in having a white lip, 
but this may probably be due to some irrita- 
tion of the stigmatic surface or of the pollen, 
it being a noticeable fact that the colour of 
flowers rapidly fades as soon as pollination is 
effected. One may reasonably infer from 
this that colour has for its main object the 
attraction of insects for the purpose of 
pollination. 
L/ELIA Jessica. — An example of this pretty 
hybrid between L. Jongheana and L. Coronet 
(cinnabarina x harpophylla) comes from the 
collection of Eustace F. Clark, Esq. In size, 
it measures four inches across both petals, the 
lip prettily frilled at the margin, and with the 
shoulders openly displayed. The particular 
interest attached to this flower is its bright 
ochre-yellow colour, which is denser on the 
labellum, largely owing to the Jongheana 
influence, for, as is well known, this latter 
species has elegant yellow coloration of its 
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