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THE GARDENING WORLD 
May 28, 1892. 
vinery, from which they may be shifted on into 
warmer quarters as occasion demands. Richardias 
are very readily fotced so as to flower at almost any 
time, provided plenty of light and a gentle bottom 
heat can be afforded them ; this last will bring them 
on very rapidly, especially if the crowns were grow¬ 
ing healthily the previous summer and autumn. In 
such cases the spathes are induced to push up earlier 
than under other conditions, and there are also many- 
more of them, not to mention their superior quality. 
Probably there is no plant of more service, nor 
more easily grown, and that will give a better return 
for Easter decorative purposes than the Arum Lily 
or Richardia aethiopica.— Experien:t. 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Cattleya iricolor. 
The pseudo-bulbs of this beautiful little Cattleya are 
fusiform, compressed, ribbed, and 2 in. to 3J in. long. 
They are terminated by a solitary, oblong, rigid and 
deep green leaf. The plant shown by Baron 
Schroder (gardener, Mr. Ballantine), The Dell, 
Egham, at the Drill Hall on the 17th inst., bore a 
raceme of three nodding flowers. The sepals are 
oblong linear, revolute at the edges, and flesh 
coloured, the lateral ones being falcate. The petals 
are also narrow, oblanceolate, subacute, incurved 
and white. The tube of the lip is rather sharply 
curved near the base and white except near the base 
of the lamina, where it shows a deep purple shade 
owing to a corresponding internal colouring ; the 
lamina is ovate, revolute, slightly crisped at the edge 
with a golden yellow’ blotch in the throat, divided 
into two branches at the upper end ; below this is a 
blotch of the same outline of a rich purple and con¬ 
sisting of lines arranged in a parallel manner ; in 
front of the golden blotch again is another band of 
purple lines following the outline of the blotch. 
Altogether it is a very pretty species even although 
of moderate size, and a First-class Certificate was 
awarded to it. 
Vanda teres alba. 
In this we have a white variety of Vanda teres, the 
general aspect of which is now well known, the 
stems and leaves being terete and dark green The 
flowers are of the usual size as the type, but differ in 
being w-hite with the exception of the throat of the 
lip, which is pale yellow. As in all other cases the 
yellow pigment is the last to disappear in Orchids 
which are otherwise pure white; or it may be that 
the whole flower was previously yellow and overlaid 
with some other hue such as green and brown, which 
disappear. A plant was shown by the Right Hon. 
Lord Rothschild (gardener, Mr. E. Hill), Tring 
Park, Tring, at the Drill Hall on the 18th inst., and 
received a First-class Certificate. 
Cattleya Trianse Schpoderae leyswoodiensis, 
The sepals and petals of this beautiful variety are 
blush coloured, the petals being ovate and beautifully 
crimped at the margin. The tube of the lip is pale 
purple but deepening towards the top, and the 
lamina is broad, rounded, bifid, finely crisped and 
toothed, and white or of the palest blush except in 
the throat, which has a large and unusually well 
defined coppery-orange blotch, surrounded by a 
purple band. The combination of colours and their 
arrangement gives the whole flower a charm such as 
we seldom see. A plant grown in a basket was 
shown by J. W. Temple, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Ernest 
Bristow), Leyswood, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, 
at the Drill Hall on the 18th inst., when an Award 
of Merit was accorded it. 
Cattleya Skinneri Temple s var. 
The merits of this variety reside in the unusual size 
of all parts of the flower, but particularly the petals. 
The sepals are oblong, and the petals broad and 
imbricate, and all are of a rich rosy purple. The 
lamina of the lip is bifid and darker in colour with a 
creamy white throat. An Award of Merit was 
accorded it when shown by J. W. Temple, Esq., at 
the Drill Hall on the 18th inst. 
Cypripedium Evenor*. 
The parents of this hybrid were C. bellatulum and 
C. Argus, the former presumably being the seed 
parent unless we may reckon upon the great pre¬ 
potency of the pollen, and consider it as the male 
parent. The characters of the hybrid are inter¬ 
mediate it is true, but the shape of the flower forcibly 
reminds us of C bellatulum. The leaves are oblong 
and tessellated with dark green on a pale grey- 
ground. The scape is very dwarf and two-flowered 
in the plant shown. The upper sepal is roundly 
ovate, pale yellow, lined and mottled with purple all 
over. The oblong-oval petals are densely spotted 
with crimson-purple on a pale yellow ground. The 
lip is pubescent, similar in shape to that of C. 
bellatulum, creamy yellow and suffused with purple 
around the mouth and on the infolded sides of the 
claw. It was exhibited by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea, at the Drill Hall on the 18th inst., receiv¬ 
ing an Award of Merit, and again at the summer 
show of the Royal Botanic Society on the 19th, 
when it received a Botanical Certificate. 
Masdevallia caudata-Estradae. 
This hybrid was obtained from M. Estradae, 
fecundated with the pollen of M. caudata, and is 
intermediate in size between the two parents, while 
the colours are similarly blended. The plant appears 
to be very prolific, and what is more curious it 
strongly reminds us of the size and form of M. 
Shuttleworthi as far as the flowers are concerned. 
The leaves are oval, coriaceous, and pale green with 
a short petiole. The lateral sepals are ovate- 
triangular, slightly concave, purple and paler 
externally with a median yellow line. The upper 
sepal is concave, paler purple with five dark purple 
veins ; the tails of all three were 2 in. to 2\ in. long 
and bright yellow. The petals as usual are small 
and flesh-coloured, while the lip is slightly darker 
with a yellow' midrib. A finely flowered plant was 
shown at the Drill Hall on the 18th inst. by Messrs. 
J. Veitch & Sons, when an Award of Merit was 
accorded it, and again at the Royal Botanic 
Society’s show on the 19th, when a Botanical Certifi¬ 
cate was awarded. 
Cypripedium Eurylochus. 
The seed parent of this plant was C. ciliolare, 
fecundated with the pollen of C. hirsutissimum, and 
it must be acknowledged that the latter has exercised 
a considerable effect on the progeny. The leaves 
are oblong, green and slightly tessellated with a 
darker hue. The scape is one flowered. The upper 
sepal is pale green, with darker lines and dotted all 
over with purple. The petals are 2jin. to 3 in. long, 
declining, somewhat wavy or twisted, narrowly 
oblong, yellow on the lower half, spotted with 
crimson and purple on the upper part and spotted 
with crimson markings. The lip is horizontal and 
suffused with brown on a greenish yellow ground. 
A plant was exhibited at the Royal Botanic Society’s 
show on the 19th inst. by Messrs. ]. Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea, when a Botanical Certificate was awarded it. 
Dendrobium lineale. 
The stems of this Dendrobium attain a height of 
3j ft. to 4 ft., bearing long racemes of flowers near 
their apex. The leaves are oblong and leathery, but 
of no great length. The sepals are oblong, the 
petals spathulate, and all are of a pale creamy 
yellow. The lip is three-lobed and finely lined with 
purple internally on a pale greenish ground : the 
middle lobe is small, roundly ovate, and of the same 
colour ; an elevated ridge with three lines upon it 
and edged with purple runs along the centre. A 
plant of three stems and bearing five racemes of 
moderate sized flowers was exhibited by Messrs J. 
Veitch & Sons, at the Royal Botanic Society's 
summer show on the 18th inst., and received a 
Botanical Certificate. The species is a native of 
New Guinea. 
Sarcopodium sp. 
An Orchid was shown under the above name by 
C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham, at 
the Drill Hall, on the 17th inst., and was awarded a 
Botanical Certificate. The pseudo-bulbs are narrowly 
ovoid, and terminate in a single, oblong, leathery 
leaf. The peduncle is one flow-ered ; the sepals are 
lanceolate, pale yellow, lined and spotted with brown; 
the petals are very much smaller, lanceolate, pale 
yellow, and lined with brown. The lip is a curious 
looking organ, heart-shaped, revolute, and swinging 
as if by a hinge on the foot of the column. 
Dendrobium Leeanum atropurpureum 
A richly coloured variety of D. Leeanum, named as 
above, was shown at the meeting of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society on the 17th inst. by Mr. W. H. 
Young, Orchid grower to F. Wigan, Esq., Clare 
Lawn, East Sheen. All parts of the flower were of 
a dark purple compared with the type which was 
brought before the public at the meeting early in the 
year. The colour was most concentrated at the 
apex of the petals and on the lip, as is generally the 
case with D Phalasnopsis Schroderiana coming 
from the same locality, namely, New Guinea. 
Peloria of Cattleya Mendelii. 
A very singular form of this Cattleya has come to us 
from Mr. Thompson, gardener to Wm. Steel, Esq., of 
Philiphaugh, Selkirk, N.B. The sepals were of the 
ordinary form, but instead of being spreading they 
were strongly ascending, in fact almost erect as were 
the other parts of the flower. The petals had been 
transformed into organs so strongly resembling the 
true lip that they could only be identified by their 
position. The variety had been a very good one 
with a rich, dark purple lamina to the lip, a large 
yellow blotch in the throat and white side lobes ; the 
tube was lined with branching white veins on a 
purple ground . Now the transformed petals were 
equally well formed, coloured, and marked as in the 
true lip, so that the flower is one of the most perfect 
instances of Peloria we have seen. The stamens, or 
what was developed of them, formed a cylinder 
round the style closely adhering to it, and the three 
stigmas were terminal and viscid, just emerging 
about £ in. from the staminal tube. Altogether it w-as 
a very interesting case. Accompanying the above 
were some flowers of Dendrobium Parishi, and a 
beautifully blotched form of Odontoglossum crispum 
Ruckerianum. 
Erratic Laelia Purpurata. 
Orchids are very erratic in their behaviour, and 
develop no end of peculiar monstrosities. The other 
day we received a flower of the above species from 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, and which seemed 
to be very undecided as to what it meant to do. 
The upper sepal was perfect and the lip nearly so, 
but all the other organs were abnormal. One of the 
petals was adherent to a lateral sepal for half its 
length, while the other adhered to an equal extent 
to the column, and had produced a lobe on one side, 
resembling in colour that of the lip. The two lateral 
sepals had developed on their contiguous sides a 
broad margin the counterpart of one side of the lip, 
even to the purple lines on the lower part, and the 
highly coloured lamina, undulated and crisped on 
the margin. Here then we have one petal and the 
two lateral sepals apparently making an attempt to 
simulate the lip. The column was stout, trigonous, 
strongly winged along *one edge, and bearing two 
more or less perfect anthers. 
SOCIETIES. 
Royal Botanic, May 18 th .—The summer exhibition 
was held in the large marquee, with the exhibits 
arranged as usual on the grassy and shelving or 
sloping terraces. The specimen plants in some of 
the classes were not so large as usual, but the first 
and sometimes the second prize exhibits were 
as a rule well flowered. The first prize in the 
nurserymen's class for 12 stove and greenhouse 
plants was awarded to Mr. J. F. Mould, Pewsey, 
Wilts, some of whose best flowered plants were 
Pimelia mirabilis, Boronia heterophylla, Statice 
profusa, and some Azaleas. Mr. H. James, Castle 
Nursery, West Norwood, was second. In the 
amateurs' class for 6 plants, Mr. A. Offer, gardener 
to J. Warren, Esq., Handcross Park, Crawley, took 
the leading award with well-flowered specimens of 
Tetratheca ericoides, Erica ventricosa coccinea 
minor, etc.; Mr. R. Scott, gardener to Miss Foster. 
The Holme, Regent’s Park, being second ; and Mr. 
R. Butler, gardener to H. H. Gibbs, Esq , St. 
Dunstans, Regent’s Park, third. Mr. J. F. Mould 
was again first for six plants in the nurserymen's 
class, showing Dracophyllum gracile, Tremandra 
verticillata and Boronia heterophylla, well bloomed. 
Mr. H. James was the only competitor in the classes 
for Orchids, and Messrs. Paul & Son took the first 
prize for a collection of Roses. Mr. A. Offer and 
Mr. H. James secured the first prizes for 6 Azalea? 
in the amateurs’ and nurserymen's classes respec¬ 
tively. In the open class for 12 Azaleas, Mr. C. 
Turner, Slough, was first ; and for Azaleas in 12-in. 
pots Mr. A. Offer was first. Mr. J. F. Mould had 
the best Heaths in the open class. The first prize in 
the amateurs’ class for Pelargoniums in 8-in. pots 
went to Mr. D. Phillips, gardener to R. W. Mann, 
Esq , Langley Broom, Slough ; Mr. C. Turner among 
nurserymen taking the first prizes for show and fancy- 
varieties. Mr. T. S. Ware, Tottenham, had the best 
collection of hardy herbaceous plants in pots, includ¬ 
ing Primula Sieboldi, Trollius, Saxifrages, and other 
