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theiy own introductions.

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OF ORCHIDS

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CYPRIPEDIUM x LEBAUDYANUM Hort.
M. ROBERT LEBAUDY’S CYPRIPEDIUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17.
Cypripedium X Lebaudyanum, Hybridum inter C. philippii tee. ldi artificiosa fecundatione

productum.
Cypripedium X Lebaudyanum Horvt., Fourn. Soc, Nat. d’Hort. de France, 1895, p. 338. — Fourn. des Orch.,
VI, p. 185.

t the present time artificial hybrids are numerous in the Cypripedium
genus, and some raisers have arrived at the third or fourth generation.

iii This however does not mean that they have exhausted the whole series
of crosses which may be obtained from the typical species; and the hybrid which
we figure to day is a striking proof of this, for it is certainly one of the most
interesting which have been obtained in the genus.

C. x Lebaudyanum is the result of a cross between two of the most
distinct species of Cypripedium that exist, both possessing great merit; if their
crossing be of recent date, when C. Spicerianum, C. barbatum, C. callosum,

_C. insigne and several Selenipedium number already a long and numerous
progeny, we must not be surprised; as both are relatively rare, and moreover
of rather slow growth.

C. philippinense is held in high repute; it has been already figured in the
Lindenia, and we need not introduce it to our readers. It belongs to the section
which comprises C. praestans and C. Rothschildianum; the flowers of these plants
grow in racemes of extreme beauty; but they are of slower growth than the
Selenipedium and certain species from continental Asia, very common at the
present time. It is extremely probable that its hybrids will be more rustic and
more vigorous; our opinion is not founded on theory, or on horticultural
analogies only, but on the example of C. selligerum, the result of a cross with
C. philippinense, and which has been so abundantly multiplied that at the present
time it figures in almost every collection.

C. Haynaldianum is still less common than C. philippinense, and is of
rare distinction. It is a species bearing flowers in racemes, but quite distinct
from the preceding group, and whose only analogue is C. Lowi. Like in the latter
the petals are narrow, drooping, spathulate and slightly convolute; but the
dorsal sepal is gracefully blotched instead of being uniformly of a yellowish
green, suffused with dull brown at the base.

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The crossing of these two species has proved quite a success, for
C. Lebaudyanum combines in a wonderful way the qualities of both parents,
and is of remarkable beauty.

The aspect is quite intermediate, the foliage ample; the flower-spike,
about 30 inches long, bears on an average five very large flowers, of a
very distinct shape and lovely coloration. The upper sepal is fully expanded,
nearly as broad as long, of a beautiful pure white, with a greenish area at the
base, and bears large blackish brown spots generally forming nine longi-
tudinal lines; from the half of the height, these lines become continuous and
gradually become paler until they are brownish rose. The lower sepal, nearly
as large as the dorsal, but more concave and very broad, is tinted with pale
green at the base and also bears a few rosy brown spots forming short lines.

The petals horizontal at first, then twisted and drooping from the third part
of their length, are rather broad; the base is greenish, ornamented with large
dark purple-brown blotches; the extreme half is of a beautiful bright violet-rose,
tinted with brown on the edges.

The lip is clearly intermediate between those of the two parents, as well
as the staminode; it is light greenish-yellow, veined with green, and the lateral
lobes are pale yellow.

C. x Lebaudyanum is the result of a cross effected by M. Pace, head-
gardener on the beautiful estate of M. Roserr Lesaupy, at Bougival. The
seeds were sown in 1890; the plant flowered five years later. We may thus
hope, as we said above, that the seedling will be more vigorous and of faster
growth than its parents : this period of five years is quite normal.

The new hybrid was exhibited at the National Horticultural Society of
France at a Meeting held on the 13 June 1895; it obtained great success,
and was awarded a First-Class Premium and a First-Class Certificate of Merit.

Such a remarkable addition does great honour to the distinguished amateur
who in a few years has formed a collection of Orchids well worthy of notice
and full of promise for the future; it does honour also to the skilful gardener
this amateur has made choice of and encouraged. This reminds us of what
the Reporter of the Commission said, when sent by the National Horticultural
Society of France to examine the estate of M. Lesaupy :

“ M. Pace is as modest as skilful; besides taking care of his flower-garden
oa vegetable-garden, he has found time for assembling a collection of Orchids
in : small oa rely “ his love for plants, as he was not required
a a 1 ee aoe ahi conditions such that many would fail,

pretexts; by degrees, M. Lesaupy’s son, M. Ropert
Lesaupy, began to take an interest in these flowers, and becoming the owner

in his turn, he did not hesitate in having special hot-houses built for the
Orchids.

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PL. DXXX-DXXXI.

CATTLEYA TRIANAE up. VARIETATES.

1. FESTIVA 3. DULCIS 5. SUPERBA 7. SPLENDENS
2. REGALIS 4. AMPLISSIMA 6. ARDENS 8. MAJESTICA

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15.
Cattleya Trianae. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 63.

attleya Trianae is deservedly one of the most popular species of the
genus. It blooms at a time when flowers are rarest and in most request;
it offers all the qualities of effect and duration which are appreciated
by amateurs and florists in this wonderful Cattleya genus, so highly privileged.
If some species exist, more favoured perhaps in the size of the flowers, none

offer so much charm and resource on account of the variability ; and amateurs
who wish to have a collection of the most remarkable of the Cattleya genus in
their hot-houses, can easily assemble thirty C. Tvianae without having two
alike. When these plants are in flower, it is extremely interesting to compare
the different forms one with the other and such a comparison always procures a
renewal of pleasure to the connoisseur.

We can form some idea of the number of these variations by examining the
double annexed plate, and by comparing it to the seven other varieties prece-
dently figured in the Lindenia. Already, in volume V of this work, we have
devoted a whole publication to four superior varieties which may be considered
exceptional; those we have grouped to-day are chosen amongst the most remar-
kable which have appeared this spring, at the meetings of the Orcu1DEENNE. They
certainly are not absolutely uncommon; but each one may serve as type for
a whole group, and taken together, allow us to form a just idea of the value
of this superb species and of the qualities peculiar to it. .

We have published in our 5 volume a complete account of C. Tvianae,
discovered by M. LinpeEN in 1842, in the Cundinamarca district, Columbia; we
will not repeat it here. Let us only remark that notwithstanding the extreme
variability of the tint of the flowers, it has, like the other Cattleya of the Jabiata
group, a distinction inherent to it which cultivators can not mistake. Even when
not in flower, the shape and the dimensions of the pseudo-bulbs and leaves,
the disposal of the petals, their short, full shape, the lip not so long as that of
C. Warocqueana, of C. Mossiae, and of C. Mendeli, etc.; lastly the yellow blotch,
more or less orange coloured of the disk and its clear separation from the red
blotch of the anterior lobe. Cattleya Trianae, to which Lindley gave the name

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of C. quadricolor, making choice of a descriptive term which does not se to
us particularly well adapted to the plant, may. be immediately recognized by
the foregoing characteristics.

The following is a short description of the eight varieties Hae on our
plate, beginning by the upper part of the lithograph and going from left to right.

C. Trianae festiva. A bright coloured variety with harmoniously blended
tints. The petals are very broad, slightly drooping and gracefully undulated,
of a pale rose rather deeper on the edges; the sepals, slightly rosy; the lip full
and longer perhaps than is usual, while the margins are very wavy and fringed;
the lateral lobes rose, veined with bright rose colour outside towards the centre;
the disk orange-yellow margined with white on the sides; the anterior lobe
of a beautiful purple-crimson red, margined with very pale rose colour, the
purple blotch passing into a few veins going towards the interior of the tube
along the median band.

C. Trianae regalis. What immediately calls forth our admiration and atten-
tion, when we see this magnificent variety is the full, rounded, dark purple-red
lip, comparable to that of some celebrated hybrids, such as C. x Hardyana
or Laeliocattleya x eximia. The orange blotch of the disk is completely covered
by this rich colour; only a feeble trace of it may be discovered in the red-brown
at the orifice of the tube.

The sepals and petals are pale rose, tinted with lilac-rose towards the
edges and the base; the petals are horizontal, broad, nearly elliptic. The tube
is pale rose, enhanced by bright rose inside.

This variety is undoubtedly one of the most distinct we have ever seen,
and deserves special mention in the fine group we are describing.

C. Trianae dulcis. This variety forms an absolute contrast with the preceding
one : it reminds us of C. Trianae pallida or C. Trianae delicata or Rollissoni.
It is however clearly distinct by the lilac-rose and not rosy-white coloration,
of all the segments, by the smallness of the orange blotch of the disk, reduced
to a mere narrow band and margined with white at the front, by the rose annular
band which encircles the anterior lobe. The tube is pale rose, with white edges.
The general aspect of the flower is very graceful and attractive with its wavy
edges and beautiful coloration. —

C. Trianae amplissima. This flower draws attention to it, as may be seen

‘by our plate, by its compactness and the fulness of its short lip and petals. If

Lindley has given to the species the name of C. quadricolor, the lip, here, would
well deserve the epithet tricolor; its coloration is quite distinct. The whole
circumference of the anterior lobe is white, which is rare in the C. Trianae;
on the disk the orange blotch is very clear, fan-shaped, and in front is a broad
crimson band. The contrast is striking.

The petals and sepals are delicate lilac-rose, the former very broad at the
base, and rather elongate.

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_ C. Trianae superba. This is another very distinct form. It somewhat reminds
us, exceptis excipiendis, of. what the Oweni variety, so much admired in London
and in Brussels, is to C. Eldorado.

The petals and sepals are pure white, the former broadly elliptic; the tube
of the lip is pale rose, the orange blotch of the disk is bright orange colour,
not much flushed on the sides, and the anterior part of a beautiful crimson-
red, paler on the edges.

One of the varieties of the C. Tyianae most valued in England, the Dodgsoni
variety, bears some analogy to it.

C. Trianae ardens. The name of this variety expresses the brilliant impres-

sion it produces, with its variegated pale rose petals and sepals, margined

with bright rose, the lip entirely. margined with red, and bearing on the anterior

lobe a transversal blotch of a dark purple-red colour, which is most effective -

on the dark orange-yellow of the disk. All the segments are of a fine size, and
the flower has a most elegant aspect.

C. Trianae splendens. In this variety the sepals and petals are entirely white,
and the lip almost entirely purple-red; the contrast produced by these two

colours is striking. The orange-yellow blotch of the disk is not very broad,

and the purple blotch of the anterior lobe flushes the edges of the lateral lobes;
the tube is pale rose.
In England there is a variety called C. Trianae Emiliae, which is very much

. admired, and that we have not seen, but which, judging from the description,

must bear great analogy to C. Tvianae splendens. Few forms of this species are
more effective.

C. Trianae majestica. This variety may be called the connecting link between
C. Trianae ardens and C. Trianae amplissima. It is remarkable for the two broad
white blotches which ornament both sides of the anterior lobe of the lip, and
which remind us somewhat of the lip of C. Warocqueana majestica. In’the front
part there is a beautiful large purple-red blotch, and the whole of the wavy
fringed margin. of the anterior lobe is bright rose spotted with pale red. The
lip is decidedly most beautiful and distinct.

All the other segments are of a bright lilac-rose. ;

This magnificent series of new varieties shows what may still be expected
at the present time, notwithstanding long years of persevering exploration in
these regions, from skilfully managed importations. The establishment of Messrs
Lucien Linpen & C°, at Moortebeek, has exhibited for the last two years, at
the meetings held in Brussels and London, some splendid varieties of many well
known species, or that were considered well known, and which all at once
prove far superior to any form hitherto admired by Orchidists. One species like
Cattleya Trianae, already so much admired and sought after on account of
its beauty and time of flowering, thus offers exhaustless resources to amateurs
of cut flowers.

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“ Who is the happiest, the gardener whose efforts have made his master
a lover of Orchids, or the master who has the good luck to possess such a
gardener? The indifference of the gardener would very probably have caused

the indifference of the master. ,

SOIXANTE-DIXIEME MEETING DE L’ORCHIDEENNE

Le soixante-dixiéme meeting a été contrarié par le mauvais temps qui sé€vit en
Belgique depuis une huitaine de jours. Malgré cela, quelques belles Orchidées ont été
présentées et nous avons surtout remarqué :

Le magnifique Coclogyne pandurata et le trés beau Cypripedium Massaianum, en exem-
plaires bien fleuris; le Miltonia Lubbersi, belle variété et les Cypripedium Rothschildianum
et Elliotianum, ainsi que le Zygopetalum Wendlandi, de M. A. VAN IMScCHOOT ;

Les Laelia praestans, variétés 4 grandes fleurs bien colorées, ainsi que le beau groupe
de Cattleya labiata, de MM. Lucien LINDEN et C¥*;

Le superbe Odontoglossum crispum var. Triomphe de Rambouillet, quoique en fleurs
depuis deux mois et presque fané, qui a émerveillé le jury, de MM. DaLLEMAGNE et Ci*;

Les splendides Catasetum splendens var. aureo-maculatum, C. revolutum var. roseo-
punctatum et C. fimbriatum var. Cogniauxi; le beau Vanda Sanderiana et le Vanda coerulea,
de M. LINDEN;

Le délicieux Laeliocatileya x illuminata, hybride des Laelia purpurata et Cattleya labiata,
une plante de tout premier ordre, de M. CAHUzACc;

Le Cattleya Alexandrae, de M. DE LOMBAERDE;

Le Cattleya Eldorado, a pétales et sépales blancs, portant une légére tache de pourpre
sur le labelle, de M. CopPEeNns;

Le Cattleya labiata, bonne variété, de M. STEPMAN;

Le Vanda Sanderiana, de M. le D™ Capart;

Le jury a décidé d’étre a l’avenir extrémement sévére, plus sévére qu’il ne l’a été
jusqu’ici, et de ne décerner des récompenses qu’aux plantes particuliérement remarquables.

Il était composé de MM. Keaerjan, président, Luppers, secrétaire, VAN WAMBEKE,
Capart, VAN ImscHoor, MireAu, chevalier DE WARGNY, DE LOMBAERDE, DU TRIEU
DE TERDONCK et VASSEUR.

Les récompenses suivantes ont été décernées :

Diplomes d’Honneur de re classe

aux Odontoglossum Triomphe de Rambouillet, de MM. DALLEMAGNE et C*, & Punanimité;

Laeliocattleya x illuminata, de MM. Canuzac, 4 l’unanimité ;
Catasetum splendens var. aureo-maculatum, de M. LinpEN, @ l’unanimité;
Catasetum revolutum var. roseo-punctatum, de M. LINDEN 3

Cattleya Eldorado var., de M. CopPEns.

(To be concluded on p. 12.)

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COELOGYNE LURIDA t. tinp. et COGN.

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COELOGYNE LURIDA L. LinpD. et coan.

THE YELLOWISH COELOGYNE.

COELOGYNE. Vide Lindenia, II, p. 79.

Coelogyne lurida, Planta glaberrima. Pseudobulbis gracilibus, superne longe attenuatis, arcuatis, 6 cm. longis,
1-foliatis, folio membranaceo subcoriaceo, oblongo-lanceolato, breviter

inferne acuto, g-nervio, 14-15 cm.
longo, 3 1/2-4 cm. lato; petiolo antice canaliculato, subsquarroso, 4 cm. longo. Scapis erectis, 6-7 floris ; pedunculo
compresso, albido-viridi, brunneo-maculato ; pedicellis prope filiformibus, patulis, rubidis. Bracteis tenuissimis, siccis,
albidis, oblongis acutis, concavis, multinerviis, ovarium aequantibus. Ovario lineari-claviformi, recto, obtuse trigono,
6-costato, purpureo, cum pedicello 16-18 mm, longo. Sepalis membranaceis, basi patulis-ventricosis, demum erectis,
liberis, aequalibus, late oblongis, acutis, 5-nerviis, nervo medio proeminente postice prope carinato, 2 cm. longis,
luteo-viridulis, inferne purpureo suffusis. Petalis submembranaceis, erectis, lineari-ligulatis, superne longe attenuatis,

sepala aequantibus, prope eodem colore. Labello sepalis aequilongo, distincte trilobo, late unguiculato, ungue erecto

purpureo ; lobis albis exilibus; 1 libus-obovatis-oblongis, apice rotundatis, versus columnam deflexis; lobo antico
patulo, ungue luteolo longo latiusculoque instructo, apice emarginato, utrinque dilatato in lobulos duos erectos rotun-
datos, margine paulo fimbriatos; lamellae duo super discum usque ad apicem unguis lobi terminalis. Gynostemium
sepalis fere aequilongum, albens, inferne gracile, superne bialatum, alis latis membranaceis viridibus, apice conjunctis.
Anthera imperfecte bilocularis.

Coelogyne lurida L. Linp. et Coan. in Lindenia, XI, p. 80, et infra.

his charming species was introduced lately by the Horricutture InTER-
NATIONALE, and flowered for the first time at this establishment last May.

According to Bentham’s classification it belongs to the Eucoe-
logyne section, and we only add from an horticultural point of view, accor-
ding to the classifying proposed lately by the $owrnal des Orchidées, that it
belongs to the group of species with erect flower-spikes, what constitutes a
somewhat rare characteristic in the genus. This group only comprehends until
now, as plants generally cultivated, C. ocellata, which is however very different
from the new comer, as may easily be ascertained on examining the plate
illustrating C. ocellata published in the Lindenia a few years ago. We must add
that the discoveries made for the last two or three years in the genus have
enriched it with two or three species which also produce erect racemes, so that
this group, hitherto the most limited, seems to be the only one in which any
novelty has been discovered for some time past.

C. lurida has other valuable merits; the flowers are graceful, the colours
harmonious and not so dark as in many of its congeners, the flowers are well
expanded, the petals of nearly the same size as the sepals, whereas in many
species these segments are very narrowly linear, or even filiform. In fact, it is a
very good acquisition.

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(Concluded from p. 10.)

Diplome d’Honneur de 2° classe

au Catasetum fimbriatum var. Cogniauxi, de M. LINDEN.

Certificats de Mérite de re classe

aux Coelogyne pandurata, de M. VAN ImscHoor, 4 Vunanimite ;
lot de Cattleya labiata (syn. Warocqueana) de MM. Lucien LINDEN et Cie, a Punanimité
par acclamation ;

“lot de Laelia praestans, de MM. Lucien LINDEN et Cie, a Punanimité par acclamation ;
Vanda Sanderiana, de M. LINDEN;
Vanda Sanderiana, de M. le D™ CAparT;
Cattleya labiata (syn. Warocqueana), de M. STEPMAN;
Cattleya aurea, du DoMAINE Royat de Laeken ;
Cypripedium Massaianum, de M. VAN IMscHOOT.

Certificat de 2° classe

au Miltonia Lubbersi, de M. A. VAN IMscHoor.

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUMES:

it Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
X parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina,
Cochlioda Noétzliana, Cypripedium % Bragaianum, Cypripedium x Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsisspeciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

204 Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum yar. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya <
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laeliocattleya
> Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

3°? Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var. dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae vir. tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya > Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium < Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laeliocattleya elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

5 Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya < Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripedium >< me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia Oweniae, Laeliocattleya

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

62 Volume

Aerides Lawrenceae, Aganisia lepida, Catasetum Imschootianum, Cata-
setum Rodigasianum var. tenebrosum, Cattleya Aclandiae var. salmonea,
Cattleya Eldorado var, Treyeranae, Cattleya velutina, Chondrorhyncha
Chestertoni, Cymbidium grandiflorum var. punctatum, Cymbidium Lowia-
num, Cypripedium > Claudii, Cypripedium >< conco-Lawre, Cypripedium
% Lathamianum, Cypripedium > Lawrebel, Cypripedium philippinense,

Cypripedium >< Weathersianum, Galeandra Claesii, Laelia purpurata var.
fastuosa, Laeliocattleya >< eximia, Lycaste cinnabarina, Masdevallia
Pourbaixi, Maxillaria striata, Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, Odonto-
glossum Triomphe de Rambouillet, Vanda tricolor var. Hoveae, Zygope-
talum grandiflorum,

7 Volume

Cattleya Aclandiae var. tigrina, Cattleya Eldorado var. Lindeni, Cattleya
Eldorado var. Oweni, Cattleya Trianae var. Caparti, Cymbidium eburneum,
Cypripedium Dallemagnei, Cypripedium Gibezianum, Cypripedium
Godefroyae var. leucochilum, Cypripedium insigne var. montanum, Dendro-
bium Wardianum var. Linceniae, Laelia X juvenilis, Laelio-Cattleya
Cauwenberghei, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. leucotata, Lycaste & Im-

schootiana, Lycaste Luciani, Masdevallia Davisi, Maxillaria mirabilis, Odon-
toglossum cirrhosum, Odontoglossum cordatum var. aureum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Dallemagneae, Odontoglossum crispum var. ocellatum, Odon-
toglossum crispum var. Waltonense, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Cha-
beriae, Trichopilia suavis, Zygopetalum intermedium var. peruvianum.

8h Volume

Anguloa X Madouxiana, Bifrenaria tyrianthina, Catasetum Lindeni, Cata-
setum Luciani, Catasetum macrocarpum var. Lindeni, Catasetum splendens
var. album, Catasetum splendens var. atro-purpureum, Cattleya Cupidon,
Cattleya guttata var. tigrina, Cattleya Hardyana var. Luciani, Cattleya
Mossiae var. Treyeranae, Cattleya Mossiae var. Wageneri, Cattleya Mossiae

var. Wambekeana, Cycnoches Loddigesi, Cypripedium Charlesworthi, Cypri-
pedium x Denisianum, Eria cinnabarina, Laelia purpurata var. Comte
de Montebello, Laelio-Cattleya x Lindeni, Mormodes Cogniauxi, Odonto-
glossum nebulosum var. amabile, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Prince of
Orange, Oncidium cristatum, Thunia Winniana.

9 Volume

Serabpegy Bungerothi var. aurantiacum, Cat
mirabile, Catasetum splendens var. Aliciae, Cattleya gioas var. amplissi

Cattleya Leopold II, Cattleya Mossiae var. Pen baggie Aa fat Félix
Faure, Cypripedium x Madame Octave Opoix, Dendrobium nobile var, can-
didulum, Laelia glauca, Laeliocattleya x Sayana, Laelio-Cattleya x Varije-

asetum imperiale, Catasetum

nevskyana, Masdevallia ludibunda,
Lindeniae, Odontoglossum Edwardi,
ey Heme incre X_harvengtense,
aius maculatus, Schomburgki
Wendlandi, ; EE”

Masdevallia triangularis, Maxillaria
Odontoglossum X_ Halli-xanthum,
Odontoglossum pulchellum var. majus,
osea, Stauropsis gigantea, Zygopetalum

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Part LXVIII-LXIX.

LINDENIA

ICONOGRAPHY
OE ORC EE Pps

CONDUCTED BY

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1896.

J. Linpen and Lucien LInpDeEN.

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CONTENTS
Pages | Pages
Laelia harpophylla Rchb. f. . . . . . . 13] Selenipedium caudatum Rchb. f. var. Wallisi
Odontoglossum Rossi Lindl. var. Pauwelsiae sub-var. Vanderstraeteniae + aL
L. Lind. +. . 15 | Aerides Fieldingi Hort. var. album 5; Lind. S23
Laeliocattleya Ww argnyana af) Lind Aa 17 | Cattleya X Mathoniae L. Lind. 25
Acanthephippium Mantinianum L. Lind, et oa. 19 | Odontoglossum X Troyanofskyanum L. Lind. 27

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LAELIA HARPOPHYLLA rcup. F.

THE SWORD-SHAPED LEAVED LAELIA.

LAELIA. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 49.

Laelia harpophylla. (Hybrida inter Laeliam cinnabarinam et Brassavolam?) Valde affinis Laeliae cinnabarinae.
Pseudobulbo tereti tenui; folio ligulato acuminato; sepalis tepalisque bene acutis ; labelli lacinia media lineari
acuminata crispa; carinis prope obsoletis,

Laelia harpophylla Reus. ¥., in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 542. — Fl. Mag., n. s., pl. 372. — The Garden,
1883, pl. 400. — WILL., Orch. Alb., III, pl. 117. — Journ. des Orch., VI, p. 230. — Les Orch. exot., p. 800.

= aelia harpophylla is neither of ancient date nor commonly cultivated ;
‘ we it flowered for the first time in 1867, and was only described by
ek) REICHENBACH in 1873. It made its first appearance in England, in the
celebrated collections of Mr. S. Rucker, at Wandsworth, and of Mr. Day, at
Tottenham. Its habitat is the southern region of Brazil, whence it has been

more frequently imported of late years.

This species cannot evidently be compared with the principal gems of the
genus, L. purpurata, L. elegans, L. crispa, nor even with L. autumnalis and
L. anceps, the beauty of which is universally admired. Its flowers are smaller

‘and less ample, but they attract attention for their remarkable coloration, very

rare in the Orchidaceous family, and of which there is only one other example
in the Laelia genus, that of L. cinnabarina.

Like the latter, L. harpophylla is orange-vermilion in colour, but the flowers
are rather larger. They enliven the hot-houses about the month of April, and
remain long in bloom; as for decorating and making bouquets, they are of great
use, as they form such a bright contrast of colour with the flowers of other cool
Orchids, in which predominate white and red in every tint, from pale rose
to dark purple.

The habit of L. harpophylla is also very distinct, and easy to recognize.
The plant forms small tufts of cylindric pseudobulbs, about 10 to 15 1/2 inches
in height, each one bearing at the apex a single narrow ligulate leaf.

As to the culture, L. harpophylla must be treated much in the same way
as L. pumila and Cattleya intermedia, which evidently come from the same region.

It is a cool rather than a Mexican house Orchid properly speaking, and
must receive regular ventilation and be well watered during the fine season.
On the other hand, the sun does it no harm, and it only requires shade in the
hottest part of the summer days. We have seen it thrive perfectly under these
conditions in a house having a North-West aspect.

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pencil and ardour are still as youthful and valiant as ever — after a fine

specimen from the superb collection of M. Cuartes VAN Wampexe, the well

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ODONTOGLOSSUM ROSSI unot. var. PAUWELSIAE 1. uno.
MADAME FLORENT PAUWELS’ VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.

Odontoglossum Rossi. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 73.

Var. Pauwelsiae. Sepalis brunneis intensius marmoratis minutissime albo marginatis, petalis eodem modo pictis,
margine alba latiore. Labello albo, crista splendide lutea ; columna alba, anthera violaceo-rosea.

Var. Pauwelsiae L. Linp. Fournal des Orch., VII, p. 179, et supra.

Var. Madame Pauwels. Fourn. des Orch., VII, p. 49.

here are two clearly distinct groups in the varieties of Odontoglossum
| Rossi : some having white flowers blotched with brown more or less

| dark, sometimes slightly greenish; the others having pink flowers
bigicuee with purple-red more or less deep in colour. The former type seems
to be most ancient in date; it was introduced by the collector Ross for the
first time in 1837, for M. Barker, of Birmingham.

Both these groups comprise a certain number of forms, and taken together,
the species may be considered as one of the most variable, after O. crispum.

No variety hitherto known, however, equals the beauty of the one we
now figure, and which has been so greatly admired at the Meeting of the
OrcHIDEENNE on g” February 1896. All the connoisseurs who have seen it, have
spontaneously ratified the appreciation of the Jury, who had awarded it a First-
Class Diploma of Honour unanimously and by acclamation. In this variety,
which belongs to the first of the two groups above mentioned, the sepals are
entirely suffused with light brown, with a mere white margin, whereas in
all the other forms of O. Rossi, the sepals are white (or rosy), with a few
blotches only at the base. On this ground, large irregular chesnut-purple spots
vein them gracefully, especially near the base; the petals are spotted in the
same way.

I am particularly happy to dedicate this superb plant to the wife of the
distinguished amateur in whose house it has made its appearance; it will hold
its owen in a place worthy of it. The collection of Orchids wich M. Fr. Pauwers
has formed at Deurne, in a few years, with wonderful perseverance, faultless
taste, and remarkable technical competency, contains a great number of select
plants, some of which are of the first order. It is, moreover, admirably cultivated.

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Cutrure. — The habitat of Odontoglossum Rossi is South Mexico and Central
America as far as Nicaragua; it is cultivated in the same manner as O. Cervantesi,
its near neighbour, to which it bears a close analogy. They are cool Orchids,
but require less water, and rather more care in winter than O. crisbum and
the Masdevallia.

Owing to its small size, O. Rossi may be easily cultivated in pots, hung up
near the glass. It is very free-blooming, and generally flowers at the beginning
of the year, from January until April. It is then one of the most graceful orna-

ments of the Orchid house.
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LAELIOCATTLEYA x WARGNYANA Lt. Lino.

M. LE CHEVALIER DE WARGNY’S LAELIOCATTLEYA.

LAELIOCATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, VII, p. 25.
Laeliocattleya Wargnyana L. Linp., infra.

aclia elegans, or Laeliocattleya y elegans, being itself of such extreme
| Variability, it is not surprising that its crossing with the Cattleya or
# the Laelia which live in its neighbourhood in a wild state, or with
a numerous species cultivated in the collections, should produce a great
number of various forms.

The Lindenia has already figured several forms having an analogous origin.
The one of which we now give the painting is not less interesting than its
fore-runners. The flowers are perhaps rather slender, but their form is very
elegant, and the coloration is exceedingly beautiful. The lip is very full, margins
wavy and fringed, gracefully deflected forwards, bearing a superb purple-crimson
blotch suffusing the tube inside very high up and the edges of the lateral
lobes. Sepals very-long, petals oblong-lanceolate, pale rose, margined with
brighter rose.

This beautiful novelty made its appearance last summer, in the hot-houses
of the Horticutture INTERNATIONALE. It was exhibited at a Meeting of the
ORCHIDEENNE on the 14" June, and was awarded a First-Class Certificate of
Merit.

We hare happy to dedicate it to our excellent friend M. le Chevalier
pE Wareny, a member of the Jury of the OrcuipEennez, an enthusiastic young
amateur of Orchids.

CuLture. — The already important series of Laeliocattleya in their diverse
forms, of uncertain origin, allied to Laelia elegans, must be cultivated in the
intermediate house in the same manner as Cattleya labiata and its varieties.

These plants are of easy culture and may be considered, in a general
way, as being more> vigorous and free-flowering than the species they issue
from. This is a common effect of hybridation.

One of the most important points, to which we must call the attention of
the cultivator of these Orchids, is to observe the annual rest. When the vegetation
is over, and the pseudobulbs are well formed, they must be left to harden

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and to ripen, the plants must not be much watered and it is well to let them be
in the sun as much as possible. During this period, it is also good to ventilate the
house whenever the weather is favourable, that is to say when the wind is not
too strong and the thermometer outside does not go down under 12 to 14° C.
The following year, the plants thus ripened and rested give vigorous shoots and
an abundance of flowers.

The plants must be watered in such a way that they do not shoot forth
again in autumn, and on the other hand they must not be deprived of water.
It is difficult to state, as sometimes novice cultivators have asked us to do,
the exact number of days that must intervene before the plants should be watered
again : that depends on the season, the construction and the aspect of the
house, the ventilation, the state and vigour of the plants, the compost, etc.
But the gardener easily judges, when he has some experience, if the plants
begin to require water, if the pseudobulbs wrinkle, if the compost is too dry
and becomes brittle. On the other hand, as soon as the buds situated at the
base of the pseudobulbs begin to swell, the plants must be allowed to flag,
and the temperature lowered if necessary (by giving more air, for instance) to
stop the growth.

Only, the rest must be brought about progressively; the plant must be
watered gradually at further intervals until the maximum for the winter season
is reached; it would evidently do the plants great harm to stop watering them

all at once.
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PL. DXXXVI.

ACANTHEPHIPPIUM MANTINIANUM . ump. et coen.

M. GEORGE MANTIN’S ACANTHEPHIPPIUM.

ETYMOLOGY : From ézev6«, aiguillon, and égiamuor, selle.

ACANTHEPHIPPIUM. Sepala lata, carnosa, in urceolum latum oblique ventricosum cohaerentia, posticum
fornicatum, lateralia basi pedi columnae adnata, mentum breve (v. conicum in A. striato), fere calcariforme for-
mantia. Petala sepalis inclusa, ad latera columnae affixa, sepalis multo angustiora, basi cum marginibus membranaceis
pedis columnae continua. Labellum ad apicem pedis columnae articulatum, inflexum, sepalis inclusum; lobi laterales
lati, erecti; medius recurvus, indivisus. Columna brevis, crassa, superne anguste bialata, basi in pedem longissimum
medium incurvo-inflexum producta ; clinandrium breve, membranaceum. Anthera intra marginem clinandrii affixa,
opercularis, incumbens, convexa, bilocularis, loculis imperfecte locellatis; pollinia 8, in quoque loculo 4, cerea supe-
riora obovoidea, inferiora longiora, omnia erecta, sursum appendicula granulosa connexa; glandula nulla a rostello
solvenda. Capsula magna, oblongo-clavata, erostris, costis 6 prominentibus. — Herbae terrestres, pseudobulbis oblongis
paucifoliatis. Folia ampla, plicato-venosa, in petiolum contracta. Scapi foliis breviores, aphylli, vaginis paucis latius-
culis. Flores majusculi, in racemo pauci, pedicellis brevibus post anthesin accretis. Bracteae membranaceae, saepe
coloratae, majusculae.

Sp. circa 7, Indiae orientalis et Archipelagi Malayani incolae.

Acanthephippium BLuME, Bijdr., 353, pl. 47; Orch. Archip. Ind., 156, pl. 49. — RcuB. F. in Walp, Ann.,
VI, 460; Bot. Reg., t. 1730 et 1846, t. 47; Bot. Mag., t. 4492. — GrirF. Ic. Pl. As., t. 325. — Maunp., Botanist,
t. 200.

Acanthephippi: Mantini. Aff. A. bicolori LpL., a quo tamen differt robustiore habitu, inter caetera
pseudobulbis duplo longioribus ; florum colore satis dissimili; sepalis lateralibus multo magis gibbosis ad mediam

partem quam in aliis speciebus generis; petalis paulo brevioribus, latissime unguiculatis, demum obtuse ovato-rhomboideis,
apice rotundatis; labelli disco incrassato 5-costato, costis mediis super lobum terminalem laevem paulo productis;
floribus patentissimis ; bracteis 3 cm. nisi magis longis, ventricosissimis, viridibus, purpureo brunneo valde suffusis;
sepalis utrinque nitidis, flavis pallide viridi suffusis, ad basin purpureo maculatis, superne intense purpureis, pallide
luteo 7-striatis. Sepalis similibus, tantum ad basim candidioribus. Labello nitido cereo, externe purpureo punctulato,
disco aurantiaco luteo, costis purpureo punctulatis vel lineatis. Columna alba, ad basim purpureo punctulata.
Acanthephippium Mantini L. Linn. et Coan. in Fournal des Orch., VI, p. 138, et supra,

he Acanthephippium genus, founded by Biume in 1825, is composed
of six or seven species, natives of the East Indies and the Malayan
Archipelago. These plants, closely allied to the Chysis from a botanical

point of view, are however very different with regard to the flowering, and
this difference is very marked in horticulture, the former being far less popular

than the latter.

Several Acanthephippium, however, are represented in the large collections,
such as A. javanicum, which is of a beautiful golden-yellow spotted with red,
and flushed with blood-red; A. bicolor, allied to the plant we now figure ; the
coloration is analogous to that of A. javanicum; A. leontoglossum, introduced by
us a few years ago, the flowers of which are cream-yellow tinged with purple-
red, the throat of the lip lemon-yellow; lastly A. striatum, more uncommon,
altough it has been known for a great length of time; the flowers are white

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striped longitudinally with rose, the lip margined in the front part with

bright red. ; ;
All these plants have a fine robust habit, the foliage is ample and deco-

rative, the flowers harmoniously tinted ; unfortunately these flowers do not expand
well. The new species now figured may therefore, on account of this, be consi-

dered an excellent acquisition, being extremely beautiful.
It was introduced last spring by the HorticutturE INTERNATIONALE, where

‘it flowered for the first time in June. It is a native of the Philippine Islands.

Exhibited at a Meeting of the OrcuipEeNNE, on June 16", it obtained great
success, and the Jury unanimously awarded it a First-Class Diploma of Honour.
It is with a particular pleasure that we have seized the opportunity of

. dedicating a new Orchid to M. Georce Mantin, the eminent French amateur,

whose collection, at the Castle of Bel-Air, near Olivet, is famed for its richness
and variety. M. Mantin is one of the Orchidists who do not merely collect and
cultivate the representative of the tropical flora for the pleasure of the eyes, but
who study and wish to know them thoroughly. Nothing concerning Orchids is
indifferent to him, and in his hot-houses, we may admire, next splendid gorgeous
flowers such as his superb hybrid Cattleya x Mantini, more modest and less

familiar flowers, or rustic Cypripedium, which he has been the first to set the

example of crossing with Indian species.
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LINDENIA

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PL. DXXXVII.

SELENIPEDIUM CAUDATUM rows. r. var. WALLIS]
sub-var. VANDERSTRAETENIAE,.

THE LONG-TAILED SELENIPEDIUM, WALLIS’ VARIETY
Mrs VANDERSTRAETEN’S SUB-VARIETY.

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SELENIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Tp -25;

Selenipedium caudatum, Vide Lindenia, II, p. go.

Var, Wallisi, supra.

Selenipedium Wallisi. Rowe. Xen. Orch., Tp. 183 atsc103:
Cypripedium Wallisi Rous. F. Lindenia, t. 131.

Var. Vanderstraeteniae L. LIND., infra.

Ci Pap he Lindenia has already figured several remarkable varieties of S. cau-
ba b EY datum. This superb Orchid, described for the first time by Linp ey after
la dried flower from the herbarium of Ruiz and Pavon, was introduced
into culture about the year 184g or 1850. As regards elegance, peculiarity of
form, and size of the flowers, it is certainly the most beautiful of the Seleni-
pedium genus, and of the Cypripedium tribe.

The Wallisi variety was discovered in 1872-73 by Gustave Watts, whose
name it bears; it is characterised by the much paler coloration of the flowers,
notably of the lip, which has pure white lateral lobes.

This variety is a native of the Ecuador, and has also been found in the
Huanuco district, in Peru; the type is most frequently met with in New Granada,
and in the Peruvian Andes. There are several geographical forms existing,
variable both in form and coloration.

The plant we now figure bears undoubtedly some affinity with the Wallisi
variety, but may be distinguished from it by the coloration of the flowers; the
lip is tinged with rose towards the apex, outside and inside, and bears, along
the orifice formed by the recurvation of the lateral lobes, a narrow brownish-
yellow band. The sepals are tinted with brighter green than in the common
form, and the petals, striped longitudinally with green, are tinged with rose from
the part were they grow narrow.

This curious and very distinct form has appeared to us worthy of being
dedicated to the distinguished French Orchidist, Madame VANDERSTRAETEN.

As regards culture, the Selenipedium may be considered as the most nisile
and vigorous of the representatives of the Cypripedium tribe. S. caudatum is

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of rapid growth, very free-flowering, and remains in bloom from April until
July or August.

This plant requires less heat and more air than the Asiatic Cypripedium.
It must be considered as an epiphyte, but is easy to cultivate in pots, if
only on account of the richness of its leaves, and for the way in which the
tufts and roots develop. It must be plentifully watered during the season of

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AERIDES FIELDINGI uorr. var. ALBUM L. LIND.
COLONEL FIELDING’S AERIDES, WHITE VARIETY,

AERIDES. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. VB

Aerides Fieldingi. Foliis patulis, 18- 25 cm. longis, 25-45 mm. latis. Scapis duplo longioribus, racemosis,
rarius basi ramosis, racemis densifloris. Floribus roseis, segmentorum apice purpureo, basi albo pictis. Sepalo
dorsali ac petalis obovatis obtusis, sepalis lateralibus late ovatis; labello satis deltoideo, acuminato, lateraliter
paulo compresso, lobis lateralibus minutis ante os calcaris parvi albi incurvis, purpureo-roseis, albo marmoratis.

Aerides Fieldingi Hort., passim; JENNINGS, Orchids, pl. 20; Belg. Hort. (1876), pl. 18-19; WiLL., Orch.
Alb., VII, pl. 309; De Puypt, Les Orch., pl. 3; Lindenia, III, pl. 97; J. D. Hoox., Fl. Brit, Ind., VI, p. 45.

Aerides multiflorum var. Fieldingi Rens. ¥., Allg. Gartenz., 1855, p. 225.

Aerides Fox-brush Horr.

Var. album. Floribus omnino candidis.

he plant we now figure is quite remarkable, not only on account of
@) its beauty, but also on account of its rarity. The albino forms, which

as are sometimes met with in certain genera, notably in the Cattleya
genus, in which they are so highly appreciated, were unknown hitherto, we
believe, in the Aerides genus, as well as in its hot-house neighbours, Vanda
and Saccolabium.

This superb variety appeared last summer in the collection of M. FLorent
Pavuwets, Mayor of Deurne and Provincial Counsellor. It was exhibited at a
Meeting of the OrcHIDEENNE on June 14", when it was very much admired;
the Jury awarded it unanimously a First-Clas Diploma of Honour.

The flowers are pure white, growing in great profusion, the long, graceful
flower-spike forming a most elegant curve.

Aerides Fieldingt is often designated in England under the name of Aerides
“ Fox-Brush, ” which is evidently an allusion to the compact, almost cylindric
form of the inflorescence. This name is very appropriate; it could only be
objected that it may be as justly given to several other species of the same
genus and of allied genera.

The species was introduced in 1850 by Tuomas Loss, for Messrs Verrcu.
It is a native of the mountainous region of Shillong, North-East of the Delta of
the Ganges.

It is closely allied to A. multiflorum, and it is a known fact, that REICHENBACH
considered it, at least at one time, as a variety of the latter. This opinion was
also shared by Epovarp Morren. We are inclined, with the learned ane of
the Flora of British India, to considerer it as a distinct species, and we think

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that the difference of habit and coloration, as well as the more acuminate
shape of the lip, suffice to prevent any confusion.

Cutture. — A. Fieldingi requires the same treatment as the majority of hot
house Aerides, Vanda and Saccolabium. From the end of September or the
beginning of October, all these Indian plants grow more slowly, and must be
moderately watered. During the few fine days we may still hope for, the heat
may be turned off, some of the ventilators may even be opened if the wind is
not too strong; but during the night, all must be closed in the house, and the
flues must be opened to maintain the temperature sufficiently high.

All shadings may be put away during the present season, it being necessary
for the plants to enjoy the rays of the sun as much as possible.

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MADAME MATHON-MOTTE’S CATTLEYA.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15.
Cattleya Mathoniae L. Linp., infra.

= Po his splendid plant appeared at Moortebeek, in the hot-houses of
4 4) Messrs Lucien Linven and C?, amongst some importations of Cattleya

Mossiae.

It is again one of those Orchids in presence of which we cannot help
invoking the mysteries of natural hybridization. The flowers are so distinct,
that it is impossible to consider it as only a simple variety ; the throat of the lip
is convoluted and crimped into longitudinal wrinkles, of most curious aspect,
somewhat resembling Cattleya Harrisoniae, to such an extent, that several
amateurs who have had the opportunity of examining the plant in our houses,
considered it as a natural hybrid between this species and C. Mossiae. However
we can hardly admit this hypothesis, on account of the enormous distance which
separates the habitats of the presumed parents.

Only one species might very likely have produced C. Mathoniae, by its inter-
crossing in a state of nature with C. Mossiae, that is C. Luddemanniana ; this
view is possible, if we take into consideration the coloration of the flowers
figured in the annexed plate : the sepals and petals are pale rose, as well as
the lateral lobes of the lip; the front lobe is coloured on both sides of the
throat with pale yellow striped with red, and the front margin is white faintly
tinged with very pale rose. All these characters agree pretty well with what we
should imagine a mingling of the colours of C. Mossiae and C. Luddemanniana
would produce.

Whatever may be the origin of the plant we are speaking of, it must be
considered as a most remarkable acquisition, on account of the fulness of
the flowers, the width and fine habit of the petals, the curious, elegant form
of the lip, and superb coloration of all these organs.

We are happy to dedicate this lovely novelty as a homage to Madame
Matuon-Morte, of Roubaix, wife of the distinguished amateur whose choice
collection of Orchids may be mentioned as being one of the finest in the

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CULTURE OF SELENIPEDIUM

Selenipedium are generally cultivated, like all Cypripedium, in the intermediate house
from 12 to 15°, in a compost of fibrous peat and sphagnum, in equal quantities. During the
season of growth, they require much moisture, and must be frequently watered, especially
in summer, but great care must be taken not to let the water all on the centre of the shoots.
For then an oily spot appears which spreads from one to the other, and soon causes
the plant to die. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful, when watering these plants, and
if, by chance, any water were to fall between the leaves, they must be dried with a piece of
blotting paper or a small sponge.

From December until the end of February, the plants must be sparingly watered; in
February they either need potting or top-dressing, and then should be allowed to grow.

CULTURE OF ACANTHEPHIPPIUM

Acanthephippium are cultivated in pots, in the hot house, in a compost the same as
for Calanthe, composed of fibers and sphagnum, a third part of sand and leaf-mould.
At the beginning, and during the season of growth, they require to be watered freely. After
flowering they need a rest of about three months, care however must be taken to avoid
letting the plants dry up. They should be watered once a week and put in a cooler place
during this period.

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D' TROYANOFSKY’S ODONTOGLOSSUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 11.

Odontoglossum X Troyanofskyanum. Hybridum novum apud naturam productum, floribus amplis pulcherrime luteo,
albo et purpureo rubro maculatis. Sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis ; petalis latioribus, oblongis, crispulis, obtusis ;
labello obovato-oblongo, apiculato, crispo-denticulato, base subcordato, albo, ante lamellas cristae luteas transverse
purpureo maculato.

Odontoglossum X Troyanofskyanum L, LIND., supra.

ew Orchids are a greater puzzle to the botanist than this group of
4) hybrid Odontoglossum, of wich a certain number of forms have already
#| been introduced and appear from time to time in the gardens. It
Bae already been frequently tried to establish their filiation; it is even done
sometimes with such mathematical precision, that we are rather disconcerted, but
this very precision may lead to some mistakes.

It may be easily understood that these plants have given rise to endless
appreciations and comments, as most of them are very beautiful; on the other
hand these comments may be made for some time to come yet, the difficulties of
hybridization, or rather the raising of the seedlings, being so great in the
Odontoglossum genus.

Although hypotheses of this kind seem to be somewhat vain and uncertain
— new discoveries having frequently upset foregoing theories — we think that
we can without any fear ascribe the new form we new figure, to the crossing of
O. Pescatorei with O. triumphans, or perhaps with O. praenitens.

It is certainly difficult in such cases to determine the influence of either
parent; we fancy, however, that we find the trace of O. Pescatorei in the ample
form of the sepals and petals, in the white coloration which covers the central
part down to the base, and in the form of the upper part of the lip; similitude
to O. triumphans in the yellow coloration and red blotches of the segments,

inthe general form of the lip (only rather modified towards the base), in the crest,

and red blotch which is on the front part. The form of the lip and crest are
the most distinctive features to be consulted in such a case; and we found our
opinion on these elements of appreciation, finding no species more likely to be
right to explain the origin of O. x Troyanofskyanum, than those above mentioned.

It ought to be remarked that O. Pescatorei and O. triumphans are already
the authors of O. x excellens; but although O. x excellens is fairly distinct from
the form we are speaking of, it will be easily admitted that there is no incompa-

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tibility, if the variability of hybrids in general is taken into consideration, and
moreover, that it may be the result of a cross effected in its native country at
the third or fourth generation. We may surmise, for instance, that O. x dellense
is the product of across of O. x excellens with O. triumphans, and O. x Troyanofs-
kyanum the result of the fecundation of the same O. x excellens by O. Pescatorei,
or by O. x eugenes, etc. It is hardly necessary to insist upon the endless hypotheses
which present themselves in such cases.

We have just mentioned O. x eugenes. It indeed bears remarkable analogy
to O. x Troyanofskyanum; it is also allied to O. X excellens, and is generally
considered as having the same parents; REICHENBACH in 1888 gave it the name
of O. X excellens var. eugenes.

O. x Troyanofskyanum in fact belongs to the same group. It made its appea-
rance at the HorticuLTurE INTERNATIONALE, amongst a series of importations,
which in the space of one year have produced so many marvellous novelties,
O. crispum augustum, O. crispum meleagris, O. X rubiginosum, O. x spectabile, etc.

We have dedicated it to the well known Muscovite amateur D' Troyanorsky,
to whom Russian Orchidology owes many important improvements.

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CYPRIPEDIUM < MORGANIAE norr. var. BURFORDIENSE nozr.

Mrs. MORGAN’S CYPRIPEDIUM, BURFORD LODGE VARIETY.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17.

Cypripedium Morganiae. Hybridum inter C. superbiens et C. Stonei artificiosa fecundatione productum,

Cypripedium X Morganiae Hort. — The Garden, 1883, p. 58; Gardeners’ Chron., 1886 (XXVI), p. 243, cum ic.,
et 1890 (VII), p. 545. — Ill. Hort., 1887, p. 16. — Les Orchid. exot., p. 714. — Orch, Alb., VII, pl. 313.

Var. Burfordiense, Inter C. superbiens et C. Stonei var. apud clarissimum dom, TREVOR LAWRENCE artifi-
ciose productum.

Var. Burfordiense Horv., Orch. Rev., 1, p. 41, et passim.

Var. Burford Lodge Hort. Les Orch. exot., p. 714, et passim.

ypripedium x Morganiae flowered for the first time thirteen or fourteen
years ago, and this magnificent hybrid still holds the first rank in the
genus, notwithstanding the improvements owing to artificial fecunda-
tion. It is certainly one of the finest of Orchids known, the effect produced
by the size of its flowers, their superb form, coloration and number is incom-
parable. They offer some analogy to the famous C. Stonei platytoenium, the king
of Cypripedium, the one which was classed first in the plebiscit organized by
the Fournal des Orchidées.

This resemblance is very striking in the Burfordiense variety, figured on

the annexed plate, which is the result of a cross between superior varieties,
and if we do not mistake with C. Stone platytoenium itself. This variety, which
was obtained in the celebrated collection at Burford Lodge, belonging to Sir
Trevor Lawrence, has larger flowers of brighter coloration, the petals espe-
cially are broader and more thickly blotched. It unites the most brilliant qualities
of the species to which it owes its birth, with more vigour and is more floriferous.

Orchid raisers have for the last few years made use of C. superbiens and
C. Stonei for the production of a certain number of new hybrids, nearly all
remarkable, and presenting to a certain degree the following general charac-
teristics : in -the descendants of the former, the elegant form, fine blotches
and broadness of the petals, the fulness and light coloration of the dorsal
sepal; in the lineage of C. Stonez, the distinguished appearance, the lenght and
graceful habit of the petals, the ivory coloration of the dorsal sepal, the superb
shape of the slipper and staminode.

Amongst these hybrids, several of which are already beginning to be
very popular, we may quote :

C. x Youngianum, the result of a cross between C. superbiens and C. phi-
lippinense.

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C. x Denisianum, the result of across between C. superbiens and C. selli-
gerum (vide Lindenia, X, p. 13).

C. x Diana, the result of a cross between C. superbiens and C. Spicerianum.

C. x Mabelianum, the result of a cross between C. superbiens and C. Elliot-
hanum. ‘=

C. x Numa, the result of a cross between C. Stone: and C. Lawrenceanum.

C. x Edith Winn, the result of a cross between C. Stonei and C. purpura-
tum or barbatum.

C. x Alice, the result of a cross between C. Stonei and C. Shicerianum.

C. x The Duke, the result of a cross between C. Stonei and C. barbatum.

C. x Lord Derby, the result of a cross between C. superbiens and C. Roth-
schildianum.

Several seedlings produced by the crossing of species more or less ana-
logous sometimes offer a striking resemblance to the above mentioned varieties;
the descendants of C. Rothschildianum, for instance, may be classed in the same
section, and it is a known fact that amongst them is to be found a whole
category of remarkable hybrids, of which C. x Massaianum is typical.

C. x Morganiae, and especially its Burfordiense variety, is up to the present
time the finest specimen of this group.

Our plate was painted after the superb plant belonging to the collection
of M. le Comte pr Boustzs, so often quoted in this Iconography as being one
of the most select and best cultivated in Europe. oye OF

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ONCIDIUM LURIDUM unpt.

THE YELLOWISH ONCIDIUM.

ONCIDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. a7:

Oncidium luridum. Foliis oblongis acutis tigidis carnosis ; scapo paniculato multifloro; sepalis petalisque undu-
latis obovatis, superioribus obtusis, inferioribus acutis ; labelli lobis lateralibus nanis obtusis, intermedio undulato
transverso emarginato, crista tuberculis 2 ad basin 2 majoribus intermediis callisque tribus cruciatis a fronte ; columnae
alis unguiculatis rotundatis brevibus.

Oncidium luridum Linp. in Bot, Reg. (1823), pl. 727; Gen. and Sp. Orchid., p. 201; Fol. Orch., Oncid.,
n° 131. — Bot. Mag., pl. 3603.

Epidendrum guttatum L., Sp. Pl. p. 1351.

Cymbidium guttatum Wi... Sp. Pl., IV, p. 102.

Oncidium cuneatum LinvL., Coll. Bot., D027.

Var. intermedium Linvv. Fol. Orch., Oncid., n° 131. — Oncidium intermedium KNOWLEs et WestC., Fl. Cab.,
Il, p. 53. — WILL. Orch. Alb., VII, pl. 345.

Zee ncidium Luridum does not often appear in cultivation. In a state of

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nature, however, it is one of the species most widely dispersed. The
first plant which was introduced in Europe, the one described by
LInNE, was a native of Jamaica. Since that time, the species has been disco-
vered in the West Indies and the neighbouring regions of Continental America,
South America, Central America and South Mexico.

It is all the more surprising not to see it figure in every collection, that
it is a very decorative plant, the flowers being of a good size and prettily tinted.

The coloration varies greatly; this is very frequent with Orchids which are
dispersed over a wide surface. This fact has even induced some authors to
suppose that in a state of nature there has been intercrossing between O. Luri-
dum and two other forms closely allied to it, O. haematochilum and O. Lanceanwmn.
These are mysteries difficult to solve; it is certain, however, that one of the
varieties ascribed to the former, the intermedium variety, reminds us very

strongly of the coloration of O. Lanceanum.

The most common type has clawed sepals and petals, margins undulated,
of a dull yellow or brownish colour blotched with yellow, the lip three-lobed,
with small, rounded lateral lobes, the front lobe forming a short broad claw,
then transversely oblong emarginate in front. The crest is yellow spotted with
red; on each side a small round rose tubercle; the wings of the column rounded
kidney-shaped, are rose in colour.

Linné had classed this species with the Epidendrum genus, like all the
Orchids known in his time. When it was re-introduced subsequently and flowered

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in England in 1823, Linpiey did not recognize the Efidendrum guttatum of his
predecessor and gave it the new name which it has kept since.

It would be most desirable that O. Luridum should be introduced freely
into cultivation. A great number of plants of this genus are of the utmost service
for the ornamentation of the hot-houses or for the making of bouquets. The
flowers form elegant clusters of extreme variety and brilliant coloration.

The culture of O. Luvidum is about the same as that of O. haematochilum
and of Cattleya citrina. It is to be placed in the intermediate house; during the

fine season and notably at the time when the flowers appear, the plants can be ©

taken into the temperate-cool house. They require to be watered freely, and
not to be exposed to the rays of the sun; the compost during the time of rest
ought never to be allowed to become quite dry.

The annexed plate figured from a fine specimen belonging to D* Caparr,
has been painted by one of our new artists, M. Henri Leroux, and is the first
production of this excellent painter in horticultural illustrations.

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THE BLOTCHED ODONTOGLOSSUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.

Odontoglossum maculatum (xanthoglossum). Pseudobulbi pressi phyllis; foliis oblongis ner-

oblongis
vosis acutiusculis ; racemis pendulis multifloris brevioribus; bracteis navicularibus, herbaceis, ovario brevioribus; sepalis
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis discoloribus ; petalis oblongis undulatis acuminatis ; labello cordato acuminato sub-crenato,
appendice unguis bivalvi concava cochleari apice producta marginata per medium arguta serrulata; columna pubescente
subaptera.

Odontoglossum maculatum LLAVE et Lex., Orch. opusc., n° 39. — LINDL., Bot. Reg., 1840, pl. 30; Fol.
Orch., Odont., no 11. — LinD., Pescatorea, pl. 28. — BaTEM., Monogr. Odont., pl. 20. — Bot. Mag., pl. 6455. —
WILL., Orch. Alb., II, pl. 52. — Paxt., Mag. Bot., XIII, p. 147 (O. cordatum), — Fourn. of Hort., 1888, p. 149,
fig. 17. — Les Orch. exot., p. 868.

sql dontoglossum maculatum is a native of the southern part of Mexico, where it

was discovered, about seventy five years ago, by La Liave and Lexarza,
44 on the range of mountains washed by the Pacific Ocean, at a short
distance from Valladolid. It was described by the explorers in their Orchidianum
opusculum, published in 1825. It flowered in Europe for the first time about 1845,
at Birmingham, in the celebrated collection of M. Gzorce Barker, who was the
first to introduce it, but it soon disappeared from cultivation, and was only to be
found on the continent towards 1869, when it was figured in the Pescatorea by
M. J. Linven, who had definitively re-introduced it.

In the form figured in the Pescatorea the sepals were violet-purple within,
pale purple without, green median nerve, yellowish-green tip, whereas the plate
figured twenty years earlier in the Botanical Register showed flowers with sepals
of a dull purple coffee colour inside, and uniformly green outside. Experience has
taught us that the form figured in the Botanical Register is the most common.

O. maculatum is closely allied to O. cordatum, both having much about the
same story. They are, however, easily distinguished one from the other. The
principal mark of distinction is the decided contrast of colours between the
coffee-brown sepals, and pale yellow petals spotted with brown towards the base,
the same as the lip. The flowers of O. maculatum are also much smaller than
those of O. cordatum; the petals are much shorter and broader, oval-apiculate,
the lip more expanded and shorter, reminding us somewhat of that of O. Cer-
vantest.

Another species geographically allied to O. maculatum and béaring some
analogy to it, is O. Rossz; the latter, however, has much richer colours and finer

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segments, especially the lip which is often remarkable on account of its
fulness.

The annexed plate is figured from a beautiful variety belonging to
M. Fiorent Pauwets, of Antwerp, the well known amateur.

Cutture. — The Mexican Odontoglossum, of which O. maculatum, O. Cer-
vantesi, O. Rossi, O. citrosmum are chiefly typical, require a little more heat than
O. Pescatorea, O. luteo-purpureum, etc.; they do not need the air to be so freely
renewed, and their rest is more characterised; they may be allowed to pass
winter in the Intermediate house, whereas during the fine season it is better to
treat them in the same way as their congeners from Colombia and Venezuela.

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CATTLEYA MOSSIAE noox. VARIETATES.

1. JOHN SCHULZ’S VARIETY. 2. LUCIENNE’S VARIETY.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 15.
Cattleya Mossiae. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 85.

rea) remember that hardly fifteen years ago, an amateur who possessed
fifteen or twenty different Cattleya Mossiae in his hot house, showed
ol them to me with pride has being a fine collection of this species. His
plants were of three distinct typical forms, the first of the darkest coloration,
the second with larger flowers than is usual, and the third represented by a
form in which the yellow veins of the throat covered both sides of the lip.
Passing over some unique varieties which figure in a small number of famous
collections, this small group did indeed represent a good selection of the
different forms of C. Mossiae introduced into cultivation.

Since that time, however, the horticultural art has vastly improved, and
the collection we admired in 1880, would seem very incomplete and poor at
the present time. Owing to importation Orchidiologists have been able to make
choice of superior varieties, so distinct, that at certain Exhibitions, for instance
at those of the ORCHIDEENNE, we may see collections of thirty or forty C. Mossiae
without two forms being alike.

The publisher of the Lindenia wishing his subscribers to know all the new
discoveries made, has already figured over a dozen different varieties, five of
which have appeared within the last three years. These varieties were chosen
amongst the most remarkable; several more might still be produced before
giving a general idea of the extent of the variation of C. Mossiae. To confirm
this, two varieties are figured on the annexed plate, which have flowered recently
in the hot houses of Messrs. Lucren LinvEN et C°, at Moortebeek, and which
are finer and more distinct than their predecessors.

The Fohn Schulz variety, dedicated to the distinguished Russian amateur,
whose fine Orchids I have already quoted, in remembrance of his visit to Moor-
tebeek, is remarquable for the size of its flowers and brilliancy of coloration.
It may be considered as the largest in size hitherto known. The petals of unusual
length and breadth, of very fine habit, are pale rose veined with lilac on both
sides of the median nerve; the sepals are of the same colour. The lip is much
undulated and fringed, the front lobe is red, irregularly veined with dark purple-

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red, with a very broad pure white margin, which forms a striking contrast;
on both sides of the throat there are two large orange-yellow blotches, veined
with light brown.

The second variety, Lucienne, dedicated to my elder daughter, is as large
as the first, and is remarkable for its extreme delicacy of coloration. The petals
are almost white, veined with pale rose; the sepals are also very pale rose.

_ The ground of the lip is almost white veined with purple-red somewhat resem-

bling that of C. Mossiae Reineckeana, and bears at the opening of the tube two
small golden-yellow blotches. The whole of the front lobe is broadly margined
with white. The annexed plate is a faithful reproduction of the dimension of
the flowers : they have been measured with compasses. The coloration on the
plate is not so lovely as the reality, there being no purple colours in chromo-
lithography vivid enough to copy nature exactly. The contrast with the white
paper sometimes makes the colours appear exaggerated. Il we place a piece of
white card-board behind the flower of a Cattleya, for instance, we shall see how
its beauty is enhanced, and how vivid the colours appear.

We have had much trouble for the last ten years with the painter we
formerly employed, who had a great tendency to make the flowers appear larger,
and we had to be very particular about the execution of his drawings to attain
the accuracy our plates have always had hitherto.

We no longer meet the same difficulty with our present excellent artists,
and we feel sure they will always follow and appreciate our advice, which is
“to copy nature as faithfully as possible.

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TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY J. WEATHERS.

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P grandiflorum Lind. . . . . 37 | Cypripedium X Massaianum Weathers . . . 45
¢ Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Rchb. rs var. » vicile Cattleya labiata Lindl. varietates 47
de ind <8 . oe es ss « 39 | Odontoglossum crispum Ldl. var. apectabiletinud. 51
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ODONTOGLOSSUM HUNNEWELLIANUM. xcus.. r.
var. GRANDIFLORUM uno.

Mr. HUNNEWELL’S ODONTOGLOSSUM, LARGE FLOWERED
VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 11.
Odontoglossum Hi: Ili Paatdopalbierent

pressis, 5 cm. longis, circa 3 1/4 cm. latis; foliis prope
8 cm. latis, 15-20 cm. longis. Sepalis late lanceolatis acutis, viride luteis, brunneo plurimaculatis; petalis similibus,
versus basin paulo pallidioribus, maculis numerosis parvioribus ; labello obovato-elliptico, albo vel cereo, brunneo-
roseo maculato et secundum marginem punctulato, margine crenulato-undulato, ad basin reflexo, antice incurvo;
lamellis tribus super discum, media breviore, lateralibus divergentibus, serrulatis, apice dentatis. Columnae alis latis,
truncatis, crenulatis, albidis, fusco paucimaculatis.

Odontoglossum Hunnewellianum ROLFE, in Gard. Chron., n. s., VI, p. 67.

Var. grandiflorum LIND., infra.

2g) dontoglossum Hunnewellianum is of comparatively recent introduction
(2). and is not yet widely distributed. When it becomes better known it will
PS) doubtless find a place in every collection as one of the principal types of
the genus. It is very distinct and graceful, and belongs to the smaller-flowered
section of the genus. Were its blooms as large as those of O. luteo-purpureum they
would compare very favourably with that species as they possess the beauty of

O. sceptrum and a richer colouring.

This species was discovered about 1888 by Mr. Oscar Bosiscu, who according
to Mr. Rotre of Kew, collected it in New Grenada, near Bogota.

Mr. Roxre expresses the opinion that the lip of O. Hunnewellianum is similar
in form to that of O. luteo-purpureum, and makes one think immediately of
that species, but the wings of the column remind one rather of O. Pescatorei.
However this may be, it is here unnecessary to say that O. Hunnewellianum is
quite different from these two species and more particularly the latter. It exhibits
perhaps some analogy with O. Schillerianum, the flowers of which are almost of
the same shape, and from a horticultural point of view, perhaps this is the
only species at all resembling that now under notice. On the whole however,
O. Hunnewellianum is quite a distinct species, and has features of its own which
render it a very desirable acquisition.

It is dedicated to Mr. H. H. Hunnewet, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, who
is well known as the possessor of one of the richest collections of Orchids in the
United States.

The variety grandiflorum which we now figure appeared in the establishment

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of Messrs. Lucren Linpen & C?, at Moortebeek, among the Colombian impor-
tations from which so many choice plants have already been derived. So
far as size is concerned the variety grandiflorum is far superior to the type,
and has besides a more highly coloured lip. It adds a fresh lustre to this charming
species which will without a doubt become greatly sought after for its cut bloom
by collectors and amateurs when it becomes better known and more abundant.

OBITUARY.

It is not to France alone that the sorrow and deep regret caused by the death
of Madame Furrapo-HEInE are confined. Her unbounded charity, glorious in its impar-
tiality, has been productive of good in all quarters, and has excited universal admiration.
The philanthropic institutions, to which she has devoted not only the capital necessary
to establish them on a solid basis, but also the revenue requisite to maintain their
efficiency, will transmit her name to posterity.

Here we have souvenirs to which no one can remain indifferent, being as they are
an honour to mankind. Perhaps we may be permitted to add that Madame Furrapo-
HEINE, took a keen interest in Orchids, and that we feel honoured in being able to
count her among the number of Patrons of Horticulture, and also among the subscribers
to our different publications. In this we seem to be able to trace another mark of her
great sympathy for everything indicating progress and work, as well as for those in
suffering.

We desire to offer our sincere condolences to one of her nearest relatives, M. CarRDAzO,
whose name is already known to our readers, and whose devoted attachment was so
highly cherished to the last moment by the deceased.

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CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM cus. r. var. VIRIDE 1. ump.
SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE'S CYPRIPEDIUM, GREEN VARIETY.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 17.
Cypripedium Lawrenceanum. Vide Lindenia, I, p- 89.
Var, viride L. Linp., infra.

gn the first volume of the Lindenia, a variety of C. Lawrenceanum
has already been figured, namely, the magnificent variety Hyeanum,

: which had just flowered for the first time in our houses, and was
aedieared to Mr. Jures Hys, the well-known Ghent amateur. Its appearance
caused a great sensation, and it still remains one of the choicest and most
distinct forms in the section to which it belongs.

The new variety, represented in our figure, is also very handsome, and
is quite distinct and rare.

The variety Hyeanum may be regarded as a kind of albino. The usual
red and brown colouring of the type is entirely suppressed, the flowers being
white and green with a glaucous and somewhat translucent appearance. In the
variety viride the colours are much more conspicuous and defined. The petals
are longitudinally divided into an upper dark green half, and a lower half of
bright greenish yellow, with a brown median line running into a greenish
yellow tip. The very broad upper sepal is stained from base to middle with
clear yellow, traversed by deep green lines. The large pouch is a beautiful
yellow faintly tinged with green, while the whitish staminode has two concentric
green lines. The leaves are of the ordinary colour, and when first developed have
some brownish-red lines on the under surface.

Another magnificent variety, the most beautiful which has yet appeared, has
just flowered in the houses at Moortebeek and has an immense highly coloured
upper sepal. It has just been painted for the Lindenia, and obtained a First
Class Certificate at the January Meeting of the OrcHiDEENNE. We have named
it C. L. Moortebeekiense.

Cypripedium Lawrenceanum was discovered by Mr. Bureince, in Borneo,
in 1878, and is still the most generally cultivated and most popular member
of the genus, thanks to the beauty of its foliage, and the size and attraction
of its flowers. It has also been frequently utilised by hybridists, and has been

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instrumental in producing various remarkable hybrids among which may be

cited the following : —

C. x Lawrebel, which has been figured in the Lindenia, was raised in
Sir Trevor Lawrence's collection. |

C. x concolawre, to which the same observations apply.

‘C. Xx gigas, by crossing with C. x Harrisianum.

C. x enfieldense, by crossing with C. Hookerae.

C. x Antigone, by crossing with C. niveum.

C. x Cobbianum, by crossing with C. x Salliert.

C. x euryale, by crossing with C. superbiens.

C. x Henry Graves, by crossing with C. x Marshallianum.

C. x Lawrenceo-Regnieri BLev, of which a portrait appeared in the preceding
volume.

C. x Numa, by crossing with C. Stoner, etc.

This progeny has been propagated, and many of the hybrids mentioned
above have themselves produced other seedlings some of which are of great
promise, notably C. x Fames Buckingham, which has been derived from

_ C. X enfieldense.

From a cultural point of view C. Lawrenceanum is one of the most robust
and vigorous of the warm species. It is advisable to repot it almost every year
owing to the rapidity of its development. During the growing period too much
water cannot be given, and the compost should be always moist. After growth
has been matured the amount of water may be diminished for three or four
weeks.

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VANDA SANDERIANA rcup. PF.
Mr. SANDER’S VANDA.

VANDA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 47.
Vanda Sanderiana. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 85.
Var. labello viridi L. Linp. et Rop., in Lindenia, 1. c.

he accompanying plate represents the type of this magnificent species,
4) of which ten years ago we figured a remarkable variety.

Hat ecan Vanda Sanderiana is the giant of the genus, and certainly the most
highly coloured species. By means of its broadly rounded and delicately tinted
flat sepals and petals, which, as someone has not unreasonably remarked remind
one of certain Miltonias; by its two very distinct lateral sepals, gorgeously netted
with purple on a yellow ground; by its short spurless lip, resembling that of
Vanda or Arachnanthe Cathcarti, this species at once excites attention and
admiration, and is undoubtedly one of the chief wonders of the warm orchid house.

M. Rorseten, to whom the honour of discovering this brilliant species
belongs, has related in the Fournal des Orchidées for 1894 the conditions under
which he procured it towards the end of 1881 in the neighbourhood of Davao in
the Philippine Islands. After having at first collected some plants which bore no
flowers, but which revealed a novelty by their habit, he was suddenly abandoned
by the prisoners which had been given him as an escort. « I was then obliged,
writes M. Rorpeten, to descend to the plain, and after a somewhat lengthy
palaver with the chief of the tribe, he consented to supply me with any number
of carriers provided I handed over everything in my possession, and particularly
my umbrella which he wanted for his wife.

« Lset out the same day about ro a. m. and at 6 p. m. reached the dwelling
of a transported Spaniard who cultivated a few Cocoa trees around his miserable
hut. I remained with him some days in order to pack my plants, and it was he
who accompanied me the first day in his little boat, having no servants at his
disposal. On landing in the evening I saw at the top of a tree some flowers which
appeared to me to be those of a Vanda, and some minutes afterwards, in spite of
the very palpable protestations of the ants which disputed my right to the plant,
I held the beautiful Vanda in my hand. All my miseries and all my fatigues were
at that moment forgotten. It is necessary to have travelled in order to realise the
joy experienced at the discovery of a new plant, and that such an one as Vanda
Sanderiana. — The little plant had three stems and forty-two flowers. »

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A certain number of plants was imported some months later, but, probably
owing to improper treatment, and to the fact that the species was not re-imported
immediately, it became very rare until a fresh introduction was most successfully
accomplished in 1895 by the HorticutturE INTERNATIONALE. The plants became
perfectly, although somewhat slowly, established and their first flowers appeared
in the autumn of 1896 and excited general admiration.

The plant from which our drawing was made flowered in the Rue Wiertz
establishment, Brussels. The flowers were brilliantly coloured, the petals and
upper sepal being more than usually tinted at the base with bright red. Other
plants have flowered with Messrs. DALLEMAGNE & C°, at Rambouillet, among
which was one particularly striking. It was a fine specimen with a main stem at

least 2 4 feet high (75 centimétres), and two lateral growths almost as tall.

This plant has borne five flower-spikes with an aggregate of about 60 flowers,
and towards the end of last November presented a magnificent sight.

Vanda Sanderiana requires much the same treatment as the other hot-house
Vandas, and the majority of Aérides and Saccolabiums. The chief point to be
remembered is to keep the plants as near the glass as possible. They love
abundance of light which is indeed indispensible for the production of a profusion
of beautiful flowers.

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COELOGYNE MASSANGEANA cup. F.

Mr. MASSANGE DE LOUVREX’S COELOGYNE.

COELOGYNE. Vide Lindenia, U1, p. 79.

Coelogyne Massangeana. Pseudobulbo pyriformi, foliis petiolatis cuneato-oblongis acutis; ped lo longissimo

deflexo laxifloro, parcissime hinc nigro asperato; bracteis cuneato-oblongis obtuse retusis ovaria pedicellata vix
dimidio aequantibus, ovariis parce nigro muriculatis; sepalis ligulatis obtusis, extus linea media carinatis; petalis
lineari-ligulatis obtuse acutis; labello trifido concavo, laciniis lateralibus semiovatis antice acutis, lacinia media
abbreviata transverse ovali emarginata cum apiculo, carinis ternis crenulatis a basi in basin laciniae anticae; cari-
nulis ibi antepositis alternantibus senis ex papulis retusis multangulis dentes molares humanos aemulantibus, columna
antice alata, ala retusa circa androclinium.

Coelogyne Massangeana, Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1878, Il, p. 684. — Fl. Mag., n.s., t. 373. — Bot. Mag.,
t. 6979. — Warn. et WILL., Orch. Alb., t. 29.— WILL., Orch. Gr. Man., 7¢ ed., p. 207. — Fourn. des Orch.,
Vip: 635

ext to C. cristata, which rightly deserves to be regarded as the king of
the genus, there is hardly any Coelogyne so highly esteemed by

wil] amateurs as C. Massangeana. This esteem is not so much due to the
beauty of the individual flowers as to their great profusion and to the vigour of
the plant. There are many species more elegant in form and colour, the graceful
C. ocellata for example, but there is none — C. cristata always excepted — which
forms such prodigious specimens and become covered with such masses of
flowers. For this reason C. Massangeana was the centre of attraction at one of the
great exhibitions (Temple Show) held in London in 1894. In the centre of a
superb group, one of the principal English amateurs exhibited a vigorous spe-
cimen in a hanging basket which was surrounded on all sides by long pendulous
racemes of flowers. It was a plant truly worth exhibiting, and thereby indicated
the riches of tropical vegetation.

C. Massangeana flowered for the first time in Oct. 1878 in the collection of
the well-known Belgian amateur to whom it has been dedicated by ReicwEenzacu.
Curiously enough, notwithstanding its distribution in cultivation, the native
country of this species has never yet been clearly indicated. It appears to have
been grown prior to 1878 under the name of C. assamica and ReIcHENBACH
mentions it as a native of Assam. But the editor of the Botanical Magazine is
rather inclined to think that it belongs to Malaya.

It very much resembles the Bornean C. asperata, but is distinguished from
that species by the form and height of its pseudo-bulbs, by the non-pubescent
raceme, and by the different shape of the lip.

The flowers are 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7 */, centimétres) across, with clear

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brownish yellow sepals and petals; the outer surface of the lip is greyish, the
inner surface of the brown lateral lobes being striped with yellow. The subqua-
drate anterior lobe is yellow with a whitish margin, has a verrucose disc, and is
sprinkled with brown blotches. The figure in the Botanical Magazine represents
the inner surface of the lateral lobes as purple red, lined with violet-rose, those
on the outer surface being blue, but we have never seen a form with these shades.

Cutturr. — C. Massangeana should be grown in a hanging basket as its
flowers are borne on slender racemes which hang down vertically. It isa species
requiring plenty of heat and moisture, and will succeed best in the warm
house. Nevertheless it may be moved into a somewhat cooler atmosphere when
flowering is over, that is in the autumn, after which it may enjoy a period of rest
until March. It is not uncommon for this species to flower twice in one year.

The compost should consist of two parts of fibrous peat to one of sphagnum,
and repotting may take place about-every second or third year according ‘as the
plant becomes too bulky for its receptacle.

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CYPRIPEDIUM x MASSAIANUM weatuers.

THE DUC DE MASSA’S CYPRIPEDIUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17.

Cypripedium X Massaianum. Hybridum inter C. X superciliare et C. Rothschildianum artificiosa fecundatione
productum.

Cypripedium X Massaianum Weatuers, in Gard. Chron., n. s., XIV (1893), p. 267, c. ic.

| Ithough perhaps not comparable in beauty with C. x Morganiae which
has recently been figured in this work, C. x Massaianum nevertheless
has some features in common with that magnificent hybrid, and belongs
to the same section. The differences between the two are evident and need not
be specified. But the relationship rests upon the basis that the two plants spring
from a cross effected between parents, very dissimilar in each case, but still more
or less allied one to the other. On the one hand we have C. Stonei and
C. Rothschildianum more or less similar in structure, and distinct in colour, and
on the other hand C. superbiens and C. x superciliare, the latter being derived
from the former, and both having as characteristic features the cylindrical

brownish red lip rounded at apex, the wide and beautifully blotched petals, the
erect poise, and the regular oval outline of the upper sepal.

These diverse features are all combined in C. x Massaianum, and it may
be said that the flower of this hybrid is almost such as one might have imagined
it before its appearance. The petals however remind one more of C. x superciliare
or its ancestor C. superbiens, being broad, slightly deflexed, and decorated with
numerous blackish purple blotches.

The upper sepal is yellowish white, longitudinally traversed by numerous
purple red veins, and somewhat heavily stained with green for two thirds of its
height from the base upwards. The lower sepal is almost as large as the upper,
while the huge crimson red lip is veined with brownish red. The staminode is
much more like that of C. x superciliare than that of C. Rothschildianum but still a
slight resemblance to the latter is apparent.

This beautiful plant was exhibited for the first time on July 11. 1893 at the
Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick, when it received an Award of
Merit.

It is named after the Duc pe Massa one of the principal French amateurs.

Our drawing was made from a plant shown by M' Atrrep Van Imscuoor, the
well-known Ghent amateur, at a meeting of the OrcuipEenne last October.

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INTERVIEWS WITH ORCHIDISTS.
The Fournal des Orchidées recently commenced an inquiry which will be resumed by
the Semaine Horticole, and promises to lead to some very interesting results. The following
questions have been submitted to the subscribers :
1. How long have you been an amateur?
2. What induced you to become one? |
3. Which were the first Orchids you cultivated ?
4. Which genus do you prefer, and why?
5. Which in your opinion is the most beautiful Orchid ?
6. Which are the eleven kinds you prefer in order of merit ?
7. Are your houses situate in the town or country ?
8. Do you apply the principles of culture as set forth in Les Orchidées exotiques et leur
culture en Europe (Exotic Orchids and their culture i in Europe) or in this journal, and what
do you think of them?
g. To what do you attribute your success or failure in the cultivation of Orchids?
10. Do you apply manure to your Orchids, and if so what results have been attained
thereby ? .
11. Do you hybridise?
12. What influence do you think hybridisation will exercise on the taste for Orchids
and on the composition of collections ?
13. Do you exhibit? If not, why not?
14. Which do you consider to be the best method of exhibiting? Do you wish to see
any innovations or reforms?
It is pretty evident that this inquiry may furnish much useful information if orchidists
will only, send in their answers to this set of questions.
That is the real point, as many years’ experience have proved that amateurs do not
readily sit down to record the information they have acquired. Besides, what progress
there would be, what interesting facts would become known, if every one would only say
what he observed and what he did in his daily practice.
Anyway the suggestions seem to have met with approval, judging by the large
number of replies, and their teachings exhibit a pratical utility of which all orchidists
should avail themselves. The first replies published in the last three numbers of the
Fournal des Orchidées are those of the Comte pE Bousigs (Belgian), D' Vouaa (Swiss), and
M. J. Racor (French). Others will appear in the new publication, La Semaine Horticole,
and the general upshot of the inquiry promises to furnish valuable data as to the tendencies
and preferences of the orchidists of all countries.
We shall demonstrate from this time forward that the amateurs whose replies have
appeared in the Fournal des Orchidées all express themselves as favourable to the PREC PICS
a the Belgian mode of culture.
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3. ALBO-MARGINATA. 6. FLAMBOYANTE.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 15.
Cattleya labiata. Vide Lindenia, Ill, p. 35.

‘= he beautiful varieties shown on the accompanying double plate possess

PE ay an interest in a certain sense historic since they recall an agreable

=H event to the numerous Belgian and foreign amateurs who found them-
es at Brussels on Oct. 25, 1896. They have, in fact, been chosen from
the group of Cattleya labiata (Warocqueana) which bore away the palm in the
Franco-Belgian contest which took place on that day.

The history of this contest is interesting, and may well serve as a precedent
for future ones which under well-defined regulations would present more interest
than many of the ordinary exhibitions.

M. Lucien Linpen, with whom the idea of the contest originated, had first
of all proposed it to the Ghent amateurs consequent upon a kind of challenge
formulated in a letter signed “ Un vrai Gantois ” and inserted in the Fournal des
Orchidées of Sept. 1°.

The gauntlet not having been taken up, M. A. Dattemacne of Rambouillet,
wrote on Oct. 3, urging M. Lucien Linpen to resume the idea, and proposed
to him a competition between the establishments at Rambouillet and Moortebeek,
each to exhibit twelve Cattleya labiata. The competition was arranged to take
place alternately at Brussels and Rambouillet, and the merits only of the varieties
were to decide. The plants at Moortebeek were but recently imported, and had
only been eight months in cultivation, whilst the houses at Rambouillet contained
magnificent specimens which had been established for years.

The first trial took place on Oct. 25" at Brussels in the gallery of the
Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, which is the usual meeting place of the
OrcuipEenneE. The appointed judges were those of this Society, and included
MM. Cu. Van Wamsexe, Miteau, De Lomparrve, Luspers, Cu. De BosscHERE,
chevalier DE Warany, pu Trev DE TEerponcKk and Vassgur and they awarded
the prize to the Moortebeek collection.

The second trial took place at Rambouillet on Nov. 7" and the judges,

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MM. A. ve La Devansave, OrTo Baur, Lipreck and J. Racor, decided “ after a
careful examination and long deliberation ” that the most meritorious group was
that of MM. Datremacne et C*, and offered their cordial congratulations to the
two competitors.

Unfortunately the bad weather and the advanced season prevented the
“ rubber ” in this contest from being decided.

The competition was the great event of the autumn and excited conside-
rable interest in Orchidic circles. A large number of amateurs came from all
parts of the two countries to admire the plants exhibited on both occasions, and
it may be said that the lessons taught under these circumstances will not be

forgotten.

The terms of the challenge were also generally approved. It was agreed

that the winner should have the right to appropriate a portion of the varieties
which pleased him most in the group of his rival. It was a most suitable award in

either case, and as may be judged from our plate, is sufficient to excite the emu-

lation of orchidists.

Immediately after the first trial M. Lucien Linpen had some of the most
remarkable varieties in the Moortebeek winning group painted, and a brief
description of them is given below: —

1. Var. ardens. This is remarkable for its intense colour. The petals and
sepals are of a bright rose ; the tube of the lip is of a deeper shade, and the
front lobe is almost entirely covered with an ornamental dark purple blotch
relieved by a narrow white border all round the much crimpled and cut edge.
The yellow disc is lightly striped with purple red, and on each side of the
throat is a pure white blotch which produces a very. striking contrast.

2. Var. Moortebeekiensis. This is another variety with remarkable shades of
colour, and is an improvement upon the preceding one. A glance at the plate
will show that it corresponds well with the type which twenty five years ago
was known as C. labiata Pescatorei, but it is a very choice form in point of size
and splendour. The sepals and the magnificent petals are of a brillant rose
colour. The bright rose lip has a beautifully expanded anterior lobe, with a dark
purple fanshaped blotch in front of the disc, at each side of which is a white
space.

3. Var. albo-marginata. This is a very curious and rare variety. The sepals
and petals are pale rose, and the lip is a curious combination of white and red,
the tube being bright rose as far as the opening, each side of which is white, as is
also the entire edge of the front lobe; the remaining portion is ornamented
with a large crimson purple blotch.

4. Var. Lucienne. The flowers of this are gigantic and of a charming colour.
The sepals are of a pale rose washed with a deeper tint towards the edges
and in the centre. The extra large petals are also pale rose with bright rose
lines radiating from each side of the median line like the feathers of a quill.

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The lip has a large deep red blotch in front, lined with a tracery of purple veins,
and diminishes in brilliancy towards the edge. The yellow disc has a white
blotch on each side, whilst the tube is of a bright rose colour.

5. Var. Mélusine. This is quite a distinct variety and falls into a new category.
The large and substantial flowers are very attractive, and have soft rose petals
and sepals. The tube of the lip is of the same shade bordered with red. The
front lobe is of an uncommon colour, being almost entirely white with a small
purple-red blotch in front of the throat, and prolonged into eight diverging
purple lines. The yellow disc is faintly striped with purple-red, while the very
wavy edge of the front lobe is delicately shaded with rose.

6. Var. flamboyante. The chief characteristic of this variety consists in the
lip being of a wholly purple red colour, and in being devoid of the white blotches
usually seen on each side of the throat. Even the disc is so heavily covered
with bright red lines that the yellow is scarcely discernible.

The petals and sepals are of a warm rose colour, the former being of
good substance and semi-erect.

Cattleya labiata var. Ragotiana. — This new variety was one of the most striking
in the Rambouillet group of twelve Cattleya labiata which secured the prize in the second
trial of the Franco-Belgian competition. It was distinguished by its extremely uncommon
colour which was of a uniform soft rose, with neither yellow blotch on the disc nor red
in front of it. It produced a fine effect and was greatly appreciated by the judges.

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« LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE. >

It gives me pleasure to announce to the subscribers to the Lindenia that I am putting
into execution a project which I have cherished and thought over for a very long time.
My journals, the I/Justration Horticole and the Fournal des Orchidées are to be incorporated
in a large illustrated journal of general horticulture which will appear every Saturday,
the first issue being on January go next, under the title of LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE.

The Lindenia will continue to appear separately as in the past without undergoing
any change.

The orchidic subscribers to LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE will lose nothing by the
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ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 11.
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 99.
Var. regale L. Linp., infra.

well known English amateur, Mr. Dr B. Crawsnay, recently commu-
| nicated to the Gardeners’ Chronicle some interesting remarks relating to
the variations of this celebrated species Odontoglossum crispum. Some
one had asked him at a recent ees “What constitutes a crispum? ” and
Mr. De B. Crawsuay replied thus :

“T wonder how many of us réally know what our reply would be, were we
asked by one who said he did not know, and believing us to be better informed,
awaited the hoped for information which I think in many cases, would render
the “ ignoramus ” still wiser.

“Tf all the plants which have been certificated by the Royal Horticultural
Society and other Societies the world over, could by any improbability be got
together in bloom for the questioner, and : “ That is Od. crispum, ” be told him,
as the world’s reply, he would probably say : “ Oh, ” for I feel certain he would
never recover the shock to get more breath. He might think to himself : “ Well!
it’s pretty variable at any rate.

“ From the outset in the days of Bateman, O. crispum was mistaken by him
when he saw it, and he renamed Linptey’s species after H. R. H. the Princess
of Wales. What would he say now were the thousands of much mixed forms to

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be presented to him?...

“ The true crispum I believe, is the spotless form that has a yellow disc
to the lip, two yellow teeth at the base, and the two plates at the sides of
its channel under the column, only sufficiently raised from the surface so
as to expose the ends of the nerves like tiny points. As soon as the yellow
usurps more than the disc of the lip, and as soon as spots and marks appear,
then I consider that there is an evidence of hybridism. No one can tell the
myriads of cross-fertilisations that have taken place. This has been proceeding
till one can only fancy there is not a true crispum left.... ”

There is evidently a great deal of truth in the remarks made by Mr. Crawsuay.
For our own part we have no doubt but that the intervention of insects in

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a state of nature has effected numerous crosses, and has considerably modi-
fied the primitive types, and we have already had occasion to discuss ana-
logous theories concerning certain Cattleyas, Laelias or Laelio-Cattleyas —
three words for which one would really suffice.

However as it is impossible to fathom these mysteries, we must consider
as species in ordinary language, all those closely related forms which differ
from each other slightly in colour, in the size of the segments, or in the
largeness of the flowers, and are connected with one another by intermediate
links. Looking at matters from this point of view, we cannot remove the
spotted forms which in all other respects are absolutely similar to the white
O. crispum described above from the specific group to which they belong.

The variety figured in the accompaning plate thus appears to us to be
undoubtedly a crispum of the most beautiful type, with flowers superb in form,
and resembling those of the Pacho variety, but ornamented with large handsome
maroon spots which give it a striking appearance.

Odontoglossum crispum var. spectabile recently appeared in the establishment
of Messrs Lucien Linpen & C° at Moortebeek among the grand importations
received by that firm, and as pointed out the Gardeners’ Chronicle is highly
indicative of the discovery of a new strain.

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536 Acanthephippium Mantinianum L. Lind. et Cogn. 19
538 Aerides Fieldingi Hort. var. album L. Lind. : 23
550-551 Cattleya labiata Lindl. varietates . 47
539 Cattleya x Mathoniae L. Lind. 25
544 Cattleya Mossiae Hook. varietates, 35
530-531 Cattleya Trianae Lind. varietates . 7
532 Coelogyne lurida L. Lind. et Cogn. II
548 Coelogyne Massangeana Rchb.f. . ye cae rt nth ay 43
546 Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Rchb. f. var, viride L. Lind. 39
529 Cypripedium x Lebaudyanum Hort. . 5
549 Cypripedium x Massaianum Weathers eRe + ees 45
541 Cypripedium x Morganiae Hort. var. Burfordiense Hort. . 29
533 Laelia harpophylla Rchb. f. : 13
535 Laeliocattleya x Wargnyana L. Lind. a9,
552 Odontoglossum crispum Ldl. var. spectabile Lind. 51
545 Odontoglossum Hunnewellianum Rchb. f. var, grandiflorum . 37
543 Odontoglossum maculatum Llave . ates 33
534 Odontoglossum Rossi Ldl. var. Pauwelsiae L. Lind. 15
540 Odontoglossum x Troyanofskyanum L. Lind. 27
542 Oncidium luridum Lindl. SPE MES eR ain pA sey cei eS a, 31
537 Selenipedium caudatum Rchb. f. var. Wallisi subvar. Vanderstraeteniae . 21
547. Vanda Sanderiana Rchb. f.. 41
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ONCIDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 37.

Oncidium Phalaenopsis. Vide Lindenia, II, Pui5 7s.

Oncidium Phalaenopsis Rous. F. in Gard. Chron.; 1869, p. 416.

Oncidium cucullatum var. Phalaenopsis. VerrcH, Man. Orch. Pl., VIII, p. 30.

4 ncidiwm Phalaenopsis, although a fairly variable Species, has never yet
=<}. perhaps produced such a beautiful variety as that represented by our
© figure, which in our opinion has every reason to be described by the adjec-
tive we apply to it. In the ordinary form, which is to be found in all collections,
the sepals and petals are dotted and barred with purple-red in the centre; the side-
lobes of the white lip are washed with purple-rose and the disc is also spotted with
dark purple.

In the variety now under notice the colouring is of a deeper and more violet
tint. The petals especially have large blotches which commingle in such a way so
as to leave only a white irregular border all round the edges. In front of the
yellow disc the same tint of violet is to be found surrounded by small spots. The
flower as a whole is decidedly larger than in the type, and its broad expanded lip
with a semi-circular and laciniated front lobe is superb.

This remarkable form rather reminds one of O. cucullatum by the colour of
the lip, and it may possibly be the result of cross-fertilisation in which the latter
species played a more or less prominent part. Although there is a superficial resem-
blance between O. cucullatum and O. Phalaenopsis, we consider these two plants
to be specifically distinct, as there are many appreciable differences between them,
such as the habit of growth, the shape of the petals and sepals, the form of the
lip, and particularly the side lobes, the attractiveness of the front lobe, and the
structure of the disc, not to speak of the colour which is quite distinct. Indeed,
O. Phalaenopsis in our opinion is one of the most charming species of the genus,
and much superior to O. cucullatum.

O. Phalaenopsis was discovered in 1867 by Wallis who was capone for
and under the instructions of M* J. LINDEN. The new variety which now raises
it so eminently in the favour of orchidists also appeared among the importations
of M. Linpen of the HorticuLture INTERNATIONALE. It was exhibited at a meeting
of the OrcuipEENNE on Dec. 13 last and received a First Class Diploma of

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of the Equator, may be grown in a temperate or cool house with O. incurvum and
most of the Odontoglossums either in pots or baskets, but we prefer the latter
which are perhaps more convenient and graceful for such charming little plants.
The compost should consist of peat and sphagnum in equal proportions, and
should be watered frequently during the growth of the plant.

O. Phalaenopsis like O. cucullatum, requires plenty of light, but should be
protected from the scorching rays of the sun, and should be placed in a position

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CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 13.
Cattleya X Le Czar. Verisimiliter hybrida inter C. labiat, et C. granul apud naturam producta; flo-

ribus amplissimis, forma et colore inter easdem species intermediis.

Cattleya X Le Czar L. Linp. in Fourn. des Orch., VII, pp. 260, 274, 290. — Gard. Chron., 1896, PP. 534, 592
(cum ic.),

| his magnificent hybrid flowered for the first time last October in the
| houses of Messrs. Lucien Linpen et C° at Moortebeek, and sprang from
‘asi an importation received some months previously from that firm’s
collectors. It was not long before its beauty was recognised as it was exhibited
in the group of Orchids comprising the twelve Cattleya labiata shown on Oct. 25
in the gallery of the Rue Wiertz in the competition between Moortebeek and
Rambouillet. The crowd of visitors present on that occasion were agreeably
surprised at seeing such an unusual and un-announced novelty. The judges
appointed to decide the first contest in the Franco-Belgian competition were
delighted with this superb orchid and wished to give it a name themselves.

Shown two days later at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society in
London, Cattleya x Le Czar created another sensation and received a First Class
Certificate. In referring to it the Gardeners’ Chronicle says :

“ The honour of taking one of the two First Class Certificates awarded on
this occasion fell to Messrs Linpen, Park Leopold, Brussels, for the very
remarkable natural hybrid Cattleya x Le Czar (supposed to be a cross between
“ Cattleya labiata x C. granulosa).

“ Its nearest affinities seemed to be Cattteya x Victoria Regina, but in this the
“ flowers are larger, the petals broader and the isthmus of the lip so much longer
“as to give some indications of the influence of C. granulosa. It is certainly a
grand Cattleya. ,

“ The sepals were light lilac with a greenish tinge; the broad petals lilac-rose
“with fine purple veining. The side lobes of the lip, which were folded over
“ the column were blush white; the erected tips purple. The distinct isthmus
“ connecting the posterior with the anterior portion of the lip was dark red with
rich orange markings, and the broad front lobe bright crimson purple with a

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delicate lavender margin. ,

Our distinguished London contemporary not content with this description
of the new and magnificent hybrid, also published in its issue of Nov. 14 an
excellent engraving which showed remarkably well the imposing aspect of the
flower even if it did not altogether convey the impression of its brilliant colour.

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The flower was represented sideways, and was thus somewhat foreshortened.
It measures g inches (18 centimétres) across from tip to tip of the petals.
In the note accompanying the engraving in the Gardeners’ Chronicle are the

following appreciative remarks :

“ Our illustration gives a representation of a very fine natural hybrid Orchid
“ exhibited by Messrs Linpen, L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, Pare Leopold,
“ Brussels, at the Royal Horticultural.Society on October 27, when the Orchid
“ Committee awarded it a First Class Certificate. Reference to our illustration of
“ Cattleya x Victoria regina in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, June 25, 1892, and
“ comparison with the illustration now given will serve to show that although
“ there is a certain resemblance, there are yet many points of difference, and
“ these from a florist’s point of view are decidedly in favour of Messrs LinpEn’s
“ plant.... It is a very fine Cattleya and evidently a free grower. ,

We think it unnecessary to make any comment on these eulogies which have
also been repeated by all the principal London horticultural journals, such as
The Garden, the fournal of Horticulture, the Gardening World, and the Gardeners’
Magazine — the latter expressing itself thus : “ Cattleya x Le Czar is one of the
most beautiful and most distinct Orchids recently seen. ,

Indeed it seems pretty certain that this spendid introduction will be con-
sidered as the most beautiful of the year which has just come to a close.

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SPLENDID CATASETUM, RUBIGINOUS VARIETY,

CATASETUM. Vide Lindenia, vol. I, p. 59-
Catasetum XX splendens. Vide Lindenia, vol. X, p- 51.
Var. rubiginosum L. Linp., infra.

ll orchidists will remember the series of sensational discoveries which
about two years ago enriched the genus Catasetum. Never perhaps

“dies at any period (unless it be 50 years ago during the explorations of
Mr. J. Linven) have direct importations produced so many first class novelties at

one stroke, or so completely and suddenly overturned all the preconceived notions
which existed in regard to the extent and horticultural value of the genus. On
turning over the pages of our Tenth Volume it is astonishing to see all those
flowers such as C. imperiale, C. Luciani, C. Lindeni, C. mirabile, C. Bungerothi
and C. macrocarpum in new varieties, C. splendens and its magnificent varieties
album, Aliciae, atropurpureum, etc., the appearance of which was so joyfully
welcomed.

Apparently, however, the supply was not exhausted as we now present
another new form belonging to the same group and equally deserving of notice.

Among the various types, which we have just mentioned, all of which resemble
each other, and are more or less difficult to describe in detail, that to which the
new comer seems to be most nearly related, especially so far as colour is con-
cerned, is C. Lindeni, but striking differences between the two nevertheless exist.
The plant figured herewith clearly belongs by its form to the splendens group.
It has more erect and serrated petals, a less ample and more concave lip, and
a more pronounced spur — all characters which assuredly point to the interven-
tion of C. macrocarpum in the production of this natural hybrid.

As to the colour it will be noticed that the petals and sepals are of a deeper
shade of red tinged with brown and covered with large irregular purple spots
distinctly arranged in longitudinal lines. The lip is of a deeper yellow, and the
red stains which cover the lower portion of this organ are more or less confluent
and tinged with brown, while somewhat similar blotches ornament the orifice of
the spur. The small purple spots which in C. Lindeni are found at the front edge,
are replaced in this variety by a transverse band of brownish rose, the outer
surface having at the same time lines of brownish rose spots.

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collections by the side of its predecessors. The genus Catasetum, which, twelve
years ago was considered to be composed entirely of botanical curiosities, has
suddenly found itself promoted to a high rank among the most ornamental
orchids. This mark of favour has had the happy effect of dissipating the unfor-
tunate prejudice which had enveloped Catasetums, namely, that they were very
difficult plants to keep alive in Europe. Now, when every one grows them, it is
perceived that they are no more difficult to cultivate than Dendrobiums.

THE HYBRIDISATION OF ORCHIDS

In the Orchid Enquiry recently instituted by the Fournal des Orchidées the following
question occurs : “ Do you hybridise, and what influence do you think hybridisation
will exercise on the taste for Orchids and on the composition of collections? ,

A few years ago this would have been regarded as an indiscreet question and
would not have had much chance of receiving a reply as the art of hybridising was
still confined to a very small number. Jealously guarding their secret, hybridisers shrank
like the alchemists of old from the gaze of profane eyes to practise their mysterious
arts, and to consummate the great work which should transmute the baser metals
into pure gold.

But to-day the art of hybridising has become part of the ordinary routine, and there
is scarcely an amateur who is not enticed by the hope of producing wonders. Indeed
does not hybridising provide for the orchidist that amount of fancy and illusion in
which man at all ages likes to dabble — in youth, to idealise his dreams of the
future; in old age to forget the mortifications of the past? Does it not bestow upon
him the legitimate pride of a creative power?

No amateur would dream of comparing the undoubtedly keen satisfaction expe-
rienced at the discovery of a rare variety among an importation, with the most
profound delight he displays when the first flower of his seedling has opened.

Orchidists should therefore be deeply grateful to the fathers of hybridisation —
to Dr. Harris who conceived the idea, to Dominy and SepEN who where the first
to put it into practice, and who thus opened up the way to a legion of actual raisers
in procuring for them an inexhaustible source of ever new delights.

But alas! if the artificial fertilisation of Orchids and the production of fertile
seeds are comparatively easy for a careful worker, and if the germination of these
seeds take place with but little trouble, it is not quite the same in regard to the
rearing of the young plants. The mortality in infancy, that plague of humanity
carries out its ravages in a not less implacable fashion among Orchids. What Sean
has not seen vanish in a few hours all the hopes cherished during years of assiduous
care? He has watched during long months the swelling of the pod and the ripening
of the seed. Having carefully gathered the seeds, he makes sure of their fertility
(for there are now no novices who sow the husks of the unfertilised ovules and are
astonished at not seeing them germinate) confides them to a compost more or less
suitable, and at the end of a reasonable number of weeks, he has the satisfaction

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CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Tapa ts:
Cattleya Trianae. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 63.
Var. exornata LIND., in Sem. Hort., p. 8, et infra.

ay he flowering period of Cattleya Trianae, has barely come to an end,
| and all orchidists still preserve a glorious remembrance of them, which
wicca the innumerable riches of April and May could alone diminish. Thus
each year our grateful admiration is renewed; each year also brings some new
treasures, and enables us to discover still further beauty in long known species.

During the past season, among the new discoveries which has enriched
C. Trianae, — already abounding in remarkable flowers — the variety exornata,
which forms the subject of our plate, may be mentioned as belonging to the
first rank.

This variety has a unique, and one may almost say novel aspect among the
numerous forms of this species. What first attracts attention is the remarkable
contrast existing between the uniform pale rose colour of the sepals and petals,
and that of the much more highly-coloured and striking lip. The tube is pale
tose, but the edges of the lateral sepals are of a much deeper shade. At the
opening of the lip are two white eye-like blotches from which extends an orange
band spreading out into a broad annular zone, occupying half of the front lobe,
and traversed by radiating lines of red. In front of this is a purple-red triangular
blotch with blackish-purple stripes, producing quite a novel shade in C. Trianae.
The edges of the lip are a delicate rose intensified here and there with a brighter
tint.

The flower is superb, and was considered so by the ten judges of the Orcut-
DEENNE, who unanimously awarded it a First Class Certificate of Merit when it was
shown at the meeting on January ro last, although the flower was then past its best.
The sepals and petals are particularly broad; the lip is well developed, somewhat
oval in outline with the anterior portion expanding in a semi-circular fashion.

In conclusion it is only reasonable to suppose that next season the flowers
will be still more beautiful, as those borne this year were produced by a plant
only recently imported by the establishment at Moortebeek. It is thus evident
that the Cattleya importations of this large firm are quite up to the standard
of their Odontoglossums.

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of seeing the minute germs swell up, become green, and show two tiny tips — the
first indications of future leaves.

There he is, more proud than ARTABANUS, revelling in enchanters’ dreams, enjoying
in anticipation the triumph which he will achieve in five years perhaps, more likely
seven or eight, may, even ten or fifteen years — patience being the cardinal virtue
of the raiser — when the marvellous hybrid will flower, and will bear down to
posterity the glory of his name. He should refresh his memory by again reading the
fable of Perrette and her Milk Pail, and one fine morning as he proceeds to view
his treasures, he perceives that the seedlings — the source of his pleasure and pride
— have vanished as if by enchantment.

It is sufficient that an untimely watering followed by a too sudden fall in tempe-
rature, or a too ardent sunray, unless the scale with its protecting coat or the horrible
thrip, or one of those tiny slugs, the more formidable because they conceal themselves
so readily, may have been the cause of the disaster.

But after all, perhaps the difficulty in raising seedling Orchids is a blessing in
disguise from an amateut’s point of view. If all the seeds were to germinate and only
one plant out of a thousand seeds sown were to reach maturity, the greenhouses of
Europe in a few years would be encumbered with hybrids which would soon .lose
all value because of their too great abundance. Now, in view of the number of hybrids
increasing each day, and appearing in competitions and at meetings of horticultural
Societies; in view of the thousands of seedlings growing on with nurserymen and
amateurs, the opinion is beginning to gain ground that there is no longer much _to
be done in this way. It would be possible to support this view with a semblance
of reason in regard to such genera as Cattleya, Laelia, and Cypripedium to which
raisers have hitherto been a little too much confined. But a simple calculation may
re-assure the adepts in hybridisation.

Take for example the genus Cypripedium of which about 60 distinct species are
known. These 60 crossed one with another may give rise to 60 X 59 = 3540 hybrids ;
about 400 of these have already seen daylight, and thus more than 3000 hybrids of the first

- degree still remain to be produced. If the 400 already existing hybrids be crossed either
among themselves or with the 60 type species, the result will be 400 x 459 = 183,600

possible combinations representing hybrids of the second or third degree. If we pass
on to the combinations of these latter a number of thousands of millions will be reached.
There is still therefore good times in store for raisers of Cypripediums, and they may
for several generations to come give themselves over to their favourite hobby, before
attaining, by the commingling of all the various bloods, the archetype of Cypripediums.
which will doubtless be a marvel — that is unless it prove a monstrosity, as nature abhors
to be violated indefinitely.

Other genera may be submitted to a similar calculation, and one may well stand
aghast at the number of possible combinations. Duplicates therefore need not cause any
anxiety, and one always has a chance of producing a novelty if not a beauty — that is the
point, to produce « the beauty. »

Of what use is artificial fertilisation if the resulting hybrid be inferior to the parents
which produced it? How many hybrids, among Cypripediums especially, have seen the
light within recent years, and are only fit to disappear again. The knowledge or

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MASDEVALLIA. Vide Lindenia, I, Pp: 35.
Masdevallia X Henriettae. Hybrida inter M. igneam var. et M. Shuttleworthi artificiosa fecundatione producta.
Masdevallia X Henriettae KRANZL., in Gard. Chron., XIII, 1893, p. 740.

>a his graceful hybrid appeared in 1893 in the celebrated collection of
ae Frep. L. Ames Esq. of Longwater, North Easton, Mass., U. S. A., and
ami D' KrAnziin described it soon afterwards as follows : “ We received
three flowers, the general habit of which is very different, in spite of the fact that
they were offsprings from seeds of the same vessel. The foliage is scarcely of
any interest, but the leaves are shorter stalked than ordinarily in M. ignea; the
flowers are in size quite intermediate, in general appearance more in the way of
M. Shuttleworthii than of M. ignea. Certainly the range of variability of the
flowers is a very great one, and we have at hand two types, one of which is
nearer to M. Shutileworthiit, whilst the other inclines not to M. ignea itself, but
shows a form which if found in a wild state would have induced botanists to
establish a new species. Whilst the upper sepal is reduced in size, but with the
peculiar swinging of the upright tail of M. Shuttleworthii; the lateral ones are
more lengthened, more oblong in circumference, with tails half as long as in
M. Shuttleworthii. The tube or calyx is sharp-keeled above, and somewhat longer,
also the three veins of the lateral sepals are more visible as in M. Shuttleworthii.

The colour is very difficult to describe, all the flowers at hand being different;
yellowish tints suffused with very tender purplish stripes and a purplish base of
the tube, is not a very sufficient or exhaustive description, but a more specialising
one would hardly give a better idea of the general impression of this very pretty
and attractive flower. ,

We have little to add to the foregoing remarks and the accompanying plate
will give a much better idea of this hybrid than any written description.

A glance at the picture will show that the plant reproduced by our artist has
more rosy flowers than that described by D* Kranziin, and somewhat favours
M. ignea, being at the same time very attractive.

A large number of hybrid Masdevallias are now in existence, and from this
fact it is pleasing to conclude that this genus is at last being raised from the
unmerited disfavour under which it has struggled for so many years. One may
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standing the smallness of the structural organs, and that the easiness of its culture
permits seedlings to be raised without much difficulty.

At the time of his death, Mr. Amss’s beautiful collection had already produced
a certain number of novelties and very interesting seedlings, and promised to
give a great impulse to orchid growing in the United States. In this respect his

death has been a great loss, but there still exist in that country several fine

collections, conducted in an excellent manner, and from these much may yet be

expected.

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foresight of a hybridiser consists in estimating approximately the probable results of the

combination of two varieties or two species, and not to cross those of which the particular

form, colour, size, or appearance may, when commingled, not produce a harmonious
result, or indicate a decided advance on the two parents.

Just as good raisers seek for modifications in the case of domestic animals by the
most perfect reproducers, or by those of which they desire to fix certain characters

‘peculiar to the breed, so in the hybridisation of Orchids the raiser should restrict himself

only to choice varieties for seed bearing or pollen producing purposes.

For a beginner possessed by the demon of hybridisation, it is unfortunately almost
impossible to resist the temptation to fertilise even two second rate varieties one with
the other when in bloom at the same time, as his still limited collection does not permit
of recourse to select varieties. ‘

It should not however be forgotten that the history of hybridisation already presents
numerous examples of crosses effected with the same species in several collections, some
of which are much superior to others owing to the better choice of parents. It is well
known that Cypripedium insigne Chantinii has constantly given more beautiful results than
the ordinary C. insigne from the same cross, and most of the highly-esteemed sub-
varieties, to the varietal names of which laudatory adjectives are appended, owe their
superiority to the same cause. Another art of the hybridist consists in keeping count of
the choice seed-bearers not only those of select varieties but also of the health and
vigour of the plant.

If fructification in nature is not prejudicial to the plant, being the accomplishment
of a natural function and the final object in view from which all phases of vegetation
proceed, it is not less true that in our houses and under our climate it is always a source

of fatigue, and may exhaust beyond recovery a weak or only semi-established plant.

What will the future of orchid hybridisation be? In my opinion it is almost without
limit and will exercise considerable influence on collections.

When one sees the degree of perfection in form and size, and the diversity in colour,
to which the persevering will of man has brought all the genera upon which he has
operated, such as Roses, Gladioli, Pansies, Fuchsias, Dahlias, Begonias, Cannas,
Chrysanthemums, etc., — when modern varieties are compared with the primitive types
found in nature, it cannot be doubted that a similar effort of patience and intelligence

_ would be successful in obtaining as marvellous results among Orchids. And in the Orchid

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CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15.
Cattleya maxima. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 29.
Var. virginalis L. Linp., infra.

tie 0 the general revision of this species, published at page 7 of Vo-
lume XI of this work, two main sections were established — one, having
comparatively short pseudobulbs, and also comparatively short and
few flowered peduncles; the other, which includes C. maxima floribunda, having
longer pseudobulbs, and longer peduncles with several flowers. The new variety
which we now figure belongs to the first section, as does also C. maxima
Malouana a figure of which appeared in this work some years back. The Lindenia
has thus been the means of representing two examples from each section —
one very bright in colour, the other very pale.

The variety virginalis, which appeared some months ago in the importations
of the Horricutture INTERNATIONALE, is extremely interesting on account of the
contrasts in colour which it presents, and because of its white sepals and petals.
The lip is a little more suffused with rose than is that of the variety alba, and the
petals are veined with faint rose — a feature not existing in the other form.

It may be noted by the way that the variety named alba is not entirely white,
true albinoism being apparently very rare in C. maxima. While other Cattleyas
have white forms in which the yellow of the disc alone remains, in this species,
the characteristic red lines covering the lip with a graceful network, and the yellow
streak dividing them, are preserved in all the known forms of C. maxima.

C. m. virginalis is remarkable not only for its colour, but also for the size of
its flowers and their graceful appearance. The petals are broader and more
extended than in the ordinary type, and the lip is at least half as large again.

The actual re-introduction of C. maxima to cultivation is a matter for con-
gratulation. Formerly regarded as a rarity, it now occupies in every collection the
prominent position to which it is entitled. From a floral point of view this species
is exceptionally valuable owing to the period at which it flowers being prolonged
beyond that of C. Warocqueana. By its means amateurs can thus count upon
having flowers at a season when they are most needed.

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family, so numerous and so diverse, not only is the field for exploration much more vast,
but the bi-generic combinations not realisable in other natural orders with well marked
genera, would appear to enter into the range of actual possibility.

What a new field opens up to hybridisation! It will certainly be unnecessary to
delude one’s self to the extent of crossing an Odontoglossum with a Cattleya, ora Vanda
with a Dendrobium. But what surprises may not be produced by skilful raisers from
crossing such allied genera as has already been realised from Cattleya and Laelia,
Cattleya and Sophronitis, Cattleya and Epidendrum, Epidendrum and Sophronitis, etc.
All the Epidendrum tribe, indeed, appear to lend themselves with the best possible grace
to these bold combinations.

Whilst in the animal kingdom the mule seems to be stricken with an irremediable
sterility and cannot transmit its acquired characters to posterity, with Orchids, on the
contrary, the mules or hybrids, even bi-generic ones, produce not only fertile seeds which
may not only perpetuate the race, but even lend themselves again to fresh crosses, either
among themselves or with the type species, to produce mules or hybrids of second or
third degree. Who can foresee the end of these successive crossings and fix the limit of
variations which may result from them?

There is also the well known fact that hybrids thus created are generally more
vigorous than the parents from which they emanate, and possess a greater resisting force
to atmospheric influences and insect attacks. Their flowers are likewise larger and last
longer than those of the natural species.

Is not the effect of acclimatisation seen here, that is to say, the accomodation to the
surroundings in which these plants are bred and born? And in this respect cannot one
perceive the hope of creating a new race of open air orchids which from generation to
generation would gradually adapt themselves to the new climate which gave them birth?
Among vegetables how many are to-day ordinarily used for the ornamentation of gardens
during the summer season, how many species of tropical origin do we not see which when
introduced were considered to belong exclusively to the greenhouse?

I do not wish to press the paradox so far as to suppose that baskets embellished
with Cattleyas or Odontoglossums may soon be seen out of doors, but it seems to be not
at all improbable that we have begun to create by hybridising and repeated seeding
races of Cattleyas and Odontoglossums of which the vegetative conditions will become
adapted to the climate under which they have been produced, and of which the culture
will consequently be more easy and certain than that of plants imported direct from
their native country.

It seems to me then that the hybridisation and seeding of Orchids should play an
important part in the future, not only from the aesthetic floral point of view but also
from the standpoint of horticultural progress.

As to amateurs who think more of the nominal value of their plants, or as rarities,
than of their natural beauty; who grow them chiefly for ostentation, like others make a
collection of pictures or maintain a stud of coursers, — for these the standpoint certainly
varies and they may look upon hybridisation as an abominable evil. The indefinite
propagation of these aristocratic flowers will at no very distant date be the means of
opening up an era for popular orchids — “ Orchids for the million. ,

It is evident that when the cotter’s wife replaces in spring the traditional pot of

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CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17.
Cypripedium Victoriae Mariae. Affine C. Chamberlainiano, a quo tamen florum colore differt.
Cypripedium Victoriae Mariae Horr. Gard. Chron., 1893, I, p. 613. — Orch. Rev., Ap., 1896.

—g he first appearance of C. Victoriae Mariae was in 1893 when it was
*) exhibited at a Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, London, on
SEGy May 9" but did not receive any award. At that time C. Chamberlainianum
was a quite recent discovery, and the new arrival was probably regarded as a
variety of that species. It is however distinct enough so far as colour is concerned,
and also perhaps by the length and formation of the inflorescence, to be con-
sidered a true species, and such is the opinion which still seems to prevail in
horticultural circles.

The surprise caused by the introduction of C. Chamberlainianum five years
ago will be remembered. Although that new species has not realised — far from
it — all the hopes which had been centred in it, it still had the merit of repre-
senting a type at once curious and quite out of the ordinary. Its flowers, more
strange than beautiful, attracted attention by their singular form — the lip being
inflated about the middle and attenuated to a point at the base, by the short hori-
zontally twisted petals, the oval shield-like staminode, and by the novel and very

varied colour largely suffused with a rosy-wine tint; also, and perhaps more
particularly, by their ladder like arrangement on a very tall and many flowered
scape, a character which would have been highly appreciated had the flowers only
expanded several at a time. Unfortunately they only open in succession, and it is
seldom that two are seen open together on the same peduncle.

Notwithstanding these drawbacks the new features of C. Chamberlainianum
have attracted the attention of orchidists, and especially hybridisers who may
hope to make use of its qualities and to lessen its defects by crossing with more
highly favoured species.

C. Victoriae Mariae is chiefly distinguished by the colour of the upper sepal
which is creamy white, washed and striped with green instead of violet rose, and
spotted at the base with the latter colour; by the absence of pubescence on the
outer surface of this organ; by the darker colour of the petals, which are neither
spotted with rose nor pubescent, and by the colour of the more slender lip which
is of a uniform deep violet red, while in C. Chamberlainianum, the lip is white
and green, and covered with a multitude of violet rose dots, especially towards
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These two species, which appear to be natives of New Guinea, should be
grown in the warm orchid house. They are vigorous growers, and are hardly ever
out of bloom owing to the flowers being produced in succession.

Our drawing was made from a plant shown by M. G. Mrrzau, the well-known
Belgian amateur, at a Meeting of the ORCHIDEENNE on Jan. 1o last, when a First
Class Certificate of merit was awarded.

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Mignonette on her garret window with Odontoglossum Alexandrae, and in summer the
inevitable Geranium by a Cattleya Mossiae, neither snobs nor millionaires will continue to
interest themselves in such common plants.

The rich collections of Mr. X., Baron Y. and Lord Z. will then disappear. The stupid
biddings at the auction sales of Protheroe and Stevens will also cease, and there will be no
more disputes and guinea offers for choice varieties, nor will the portion of a unique
variety any longer be worth its weight in gold.

Horticultural Catalogues will then announce to customers the price per thousand,
of Orchid Seedlings of one or two years growth, with a discount of 5 per cent. on orders
of ro,o0o and more, just as at the present day nurserymen offer osiers and conifers in
their price lists for plantation purposes.

Seedling Orchids will be purchased and grown in quantity by specialists who supply
the markets, and orchids in bloom — fallen from their ancient glory — will lie pitiably

stranded on the stalls of the retail dealers of the Quai aux Fleurs, at the Place de la ~

Madeleine, or at Covent Garden, huddled together with pots of Gilliflowers or Marguerites
within the reach of the most modest purse. Having enjoyed the riches and happiness
of this world they will then become a source of pleasure to humble folk.

At this epoch we shall also see displayed on the outside cover of horticultural
journals an advertisement announcing the approaching publication of a practical work
on orchids from the pen of one of the most competent and sympathetic orchidologists,
under the suggestive title of “ Orchids in Europe : The Rise and Fall of a Vegetable

- Genus to the Twentieth Century. ” Such is'the accurate and fatidical picture of the probable

results of hybridisation. Does it please or sadden? Having faithfully reproduced the
arguments on either side I hesitate to say. And yet, whether fashion bears them to the
highest point or abandons them through caprice, orchids will still remain queens among
flowers and be preferred by true amateurs who will continue to admire them as one of
the most sublime expressions of nature’s beauty.

_ J. Racor.

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SUPERB VARIETY OF CATTLEYA LABIATA.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I; p. 15.
Cattleya labiata. Vide Lindenia, III, Pp. 35.
Var, Lindeni Hort., infra.

he varieties of Cattleya labiata figured from time to time in the Lindenia
have, in our opinion, all been eclipsed by that which we now are
7 so fortunate as to present to our readers. This very handsome species
has never yet produced such a splendid form.

Although the resources of lithography are not altogether capable of truly
rendering the marvellous richness of sombre purple tones, still the accompanying
plate will give orchidists some idea as to the beauty of this variety. The very
broad and well extended petals are of a warm rose suffused with rose-purple ;
the large broadly rounded lip, waved and crisped at the edges, has the anterior
lobe entirely covered with a dark purple-red blotch which extends down into
the throat, at each side of which the trace of white and yellow, usually occupying
a large space in front of the opening, can scarcely be seen.

By a happy coincidence our present double number contains the portraits
of plants chosen from three superb Cattleyas which embellish the orchid houses
during the spring season — first, C. labiata, closely followed by C. maxima, and
then C. Trianae finishing in winter. What a wonderful vegetable family is that
which gives us — not only during the whole year, but particularly at this period
of it — such a series of incomparable treasures! Each one of these, rich in splendid
variations, may be utilised by the orchidist to form quite a little collection, and
around them may be grouped a multitude of less brilliant and less sensational
orchids, but all very remarkable and possessing most valuable qualities. Those
plants which to-day appear to be somewhat second-rate, were, scarcely ten years
ago, the only consolation of amateurs from October to January when C. labiata
and C. maxima were only represented by a few plants in a small number of select
collections.

To day both species are eminently popular, and there is no budding orchid
grower who does not wish to have in: his collection some beautiful types of both
C. labiata and C. maxima.

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUMES:

qst

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium x Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

gud

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium x Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

Volume

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum X Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsisspeciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

Volume

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laeliocattleya
Arnoldidana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

31 Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum x excellens var. dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum,

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya X Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
@rammangis Ellisii, Laeliocattleya < elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi. var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

5 Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripedium >< me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia < Oweniae, Laeliocattleya

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var,
planilabris.

6 Volume

Aerides Lawrenceae, Aganisia lepida, Catasetum Imschootianum, Cata-
setum Rodigasianum var. tenebrosum, Cattleya Aclandiae var. salmonea,
Cattleya Eldorado var. Treyeranae, Cattleya velutina, Chondrorhyncha
Chestertoni, Cymbidium grandiflorum var. punctatum, Cymbidium Lowia-
num, Cypripedium Claudii, Cypripedium > conco-Lawre, Cypripedium
> Lathamianum, Cypripedium X Lawrebel, Cypripedium philippinense,

Cypripedium > Weathersianum, Galeandra Claesii, Laelia purpurata var.
fastuosa, Laeliocattleya >< eximia, Lycaste cinnabarina, Masdevallia
Pourbaixi, Maxillaria striata, Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, Odonto-
glossum Triomphe de Rambouillet, Vanda tricolor var. Hoveae, Zygope-
talum grandiflorum,

7 Volume

Cattleya Aclandiae var. tigrina, Cattleya Eldorado var. Lindeni, Cattleya
Eldorado var. Oweni, Cattleya Trianae var. Caparti, Cymbidium eburneum,
Cypripedium >< Dallemagnei, Cypripedium Gibezianum, Cypripedium
Godefroyae var. leucochilum, Cypripedium insigne var, montanum, Dendro-
bium Wardianum var. Lindeniae, Laelia X juvenilis, Laelio-Cattleya
Cauwenberghei, Laelio-Cattleya X elegans var. leucotata, Lycaste Im-

schootiana, Lycaste Luciani, Masdevallia Davisi, Maxillaria mirabilis, Odon-
toglossum cirrhosum, Odontoglossum cordatum var. aureum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Dallemagneae, Odontoglossum crispum var. ocellatum, Odon-
toglossum crispum var. Waltonense, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Cha-
beriae, Trichopilia suavis, Zygopetalum intermedium var. peruvianum.

8h Volume

Anguloa X Madouxiana, Bifrenaria tyrianthina, Catasetum Lindeni, Cata-
setum Luciani, Catasetum macrocarpum var. Lindeni, Catasetum splendens
var. album, Catasetum splendens var. atro-purpureum, Cattleya Cupidon,
Cattleya guttata var. tigrina, Cattleya X Hardyana var. Luciani, Cattleya
Mossiae var. Treyeranae, Cattleya Mossiae var. Wageneri, Cattleya Mossiae

var. Wambekeana, Cycnoches Loddigesi, Cypripedium Charlesworthi, Cypri-
pedium X Denisianum, Eria cinnabarina, Laelia purpurata var. Comte
de Montebello, Laelio-Cattleya x Lindeni, Mormodes Cogniauxi, Odonto-
glossum nebulosum var. amabile, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Prince of
Orange, Oncidium cristatum, Thunia Winniana.

9 Volume

Catasetum Bungerothi var. aurantiacum, Catasetum imperiale, Catasetum
mirabile, Catasetum splendens var. Aliciae, Cattleya gigas var. amplissima,
Cattleya Leopold II, Cattleya Mossiae var. amoena, Cypripedium x Félix
Faure, Cypripedium > Madame Octave Opoix, Dendrobium nobile var. can-
didulum, Laelia glauca, Laeliocattleya x Sayana, Laelio-Cattleya X Varje-

nevskyana, Masdevallia ludibunda, Masdevallia triangularis, Maxillaria
Lindeniae, Odontoglossum Edwardi, Odontoglossum X _ Halli-xanthum,
Odontoglossum >< harvengtense, Odontoglossum pulchellum var. majus,

Sct eae Schomburgkia rosea, Stauropsis gigantea, Zygopetalum

to Volume

Bulbophyllum carinatum, Catasetum fimbriatum var. Cognauxi, Cata-
setum punctatum, Catasetum species novae, Catas-tum stupendum, Cattleya
Aliciae, Cattleya Mossiae var., Cattleya Mossiae var. Reineckeana subvar,
exquisita, Cattleya Mossiae var. alba subvar. coelestis, Cattleya Skinneri
var. oculata, Cypripedium > Aylingi Castle Stand Hall. var., Cypripedium x<

Evenor var. grandiflorum, Cypripedium }< Lawrenceo Regnieri, Eulophia
Congoensis, Laelia autumnalis var. alba, Laelio Cattleya >< Schulziana,
Odontoglossum crispum var. luteo-radiatum, Oncidium onustum, Rhyn-
chostylis retusa, Saccolabium ampullaceum, Stauropsis Lissochiloides, Vanda
Parishi var, Marriottiana, Vanda spathulata,

Pes

PART ALEX Vs

APRIL 1897.

LINDENIA

ICONOGRAPHY
O7R °:OsRiG Helslame

CONDUCTED BY

J. Linpen and Lucien LiInpen.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY J. WEATHERS.

CONTENTS

Pages | Pages
21 | Cypripedium insigne Wall. varietates novae 25

23 | Cattleya Trianae Lind. var. deliciosa L. Lind. 27

Phaius < Marthae Hort.
Cochlioda miniata L. Lind.

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PHAIUS x MARTHAE uorr.

' PHAIUS. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 91.
' Phaius Marthae. Hybridus inter P. Blumei et P. tuberculosum artificiosa fecundatione productus.
Phaius X Marthae Horr., Fourn. of Hort., 1894, I, cum ic.

yy, his beautiful hybrid first appeared in public at a meeting of the Royal
ee) Horticultural Society, London, on March 13, 1894, when it attracted
much attention and was unanimously awarded a First Class Certificate.
The Society’s Yournal described it at that period as having the form of
P. x Cooksoni (P. Wallichii x P. tuberculosus) but a different colour of a pale
nankeen yellow, with the base of the lip striped with purple, the front lobe being
washed with bright rose. In P. x Cooksoni the sepals and petals are clear rose
longitudinally shaded with a brownish yellow median band; the basal portion of
the lip is yellow, while the anterior portion is suffused with rose on each side and
stained with carmine rose.

The resemblance between P. x Cooksoni and P. x Marthae is readily explained
by the close relationship which marks their origin. In fact the two hybrids have
one parent common to both, namely P. tuberculosus, and the two other species
which have assisted in their production are very near to each other. REICHENBACH
expressed the opinion that P. Blumei and P. Wallichii, as well as P. grandifolius,
might well be regarded as forms or sub-species belonging to the same type.
The editor of the Botanical Magazine when describing P. Wallichii expressed a
similar opinion. The following differences may be noted: P. Blumei has wider
segments than P. Wallichii, and of a deeper shade and somewhat marbled. These
differences, however, are not absolutely fixed as the three forms just mentioned
are very variable. As to the other parent, P. tuberculosus, it is perhaps the most
highly valued and the finest of the genus, and is already known to the subscribers
of the Lindenia, having been figured in the seventh volume.

In a word, it may be seen from our plate that the hybrid now pour-
trayed is quite intermediate between the parents, and favours more particularly
P. tuberculosus in form, and P. Blumei in colour. The plant from which our artist
prepared the painting was exhibited by Mr. A. Van Imscuoor at a meeting of the
ORCHIDEENNE on Jan. Io last, when it achieved a great success, the Judges
unanimously awarding it a First Class Certificate of Merit.

By comparing it with the descriptions cited above, it will be seen that
it comes somewhat nearer P. X Cooksoni, but this is not astonishing, considering

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the well-known variability of hybrids, and as we have just remarked, the close
relationship of those now under notice.

Cutture. — P. Blumei, P. grandifolius and P. Wallichii are grown in the
warm intermediate house, under the same conditions as Dendrobiums, in a
compost chiefly consisting of fibrous loam, with a little peat and sphagnum.
P. tuberculosus requires a warm house temperature with plenty of light and a
humid atmosphere; it is more difficult to grow than its congeners and the
majority of warm house Orchids.

It is to be hoped that P. x Marthae, owing to the influence of its other
parent, will give less trouble to growers, as one of the common effects of
hybridisation is to produce stronger and healthier plants than the species from
which they are derived. It frequently happens also that they produce a greater
abundance of flowers, and this result seems to have been attained in the case
of P. X Marthae as may be gathered from a glance at our figure.

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MINIUM COLOURED COCHLIODA.

COCHLIODA. Vide Lindenia, VI, p. 55.
Cochlioda miniata. Hybride inter C. Nétzlianam et C. vulcanicam apud naturam producta,
Cochlioda miniata L. Linp., Sem. Hort., I, p. 39.

Fywann, at infinite resources the cool house alone offers to the Orchid amateur !
q Colours, delicate, soft or brillant; elegance and majesty of forms; abun-
rons | dance of flowers — all these qualities give to the cool house a charm
and attraction ever fresh and renewed each season without much trouble or care.
Among plants belonging to this category which attract most attention by
the side of Odonioglossum crispum, which they show up remarkably well, must be
mentioned the Cochliodas, of which C. Nétzliana and C. vulcanica are the best
known. The colour of the first named is a superb scarlet shaded with vermillion,
the large substantial flowers closely arranged on the flower-spike producing a
great effect. The flowers of the other which are larger, more delicate and less
closely arranged on the spike, have a very graceful appearance and are of
a beautiful bright carmine rose, the long gracefully arched clusters being very
ornamental.
The crossing of these two species should certainly produce an extremely
interesting result, and would doubtless have been attempted by some raisers.

But nature herself is the first in the field and, as may be seen from a glance at
our plate the result is just what one might have expected.

This natural hybrid appeared last January among the importations of the
HorTIcuLTurE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. It is quite intermediate between C. Notz-
lana and C. vulcanica and as to its hybrid origin there can be no doubt. Its
flowers are as large as those of the medium sized forms of C. vulcanica, and
like that species they have oblong lanceolate sepals and petals, the latter being
broader than the former, while the lateral sepals are also longer and more
undulate. The colour of these parts are of a glowing red shading to scarlet and
carmine towards the middle. The broad, somewhat short and deeply three-
lobed lip is intermediate between that of the two species already mentioned
and is of a red vermillion colour. The crest is bright yellow as in C. Nétzliana,
and the wings of the column are carmine rose as in C. vulcanica.

The plant seems to be very free flowering judging by its first production
of long gracefully-arched and well-furnished flower spikes.

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C. miniata, shown at at meeting of the OrcHIDEENNE on January 10, was
unanimously awarded on that occasion a First Class Diploma of honour. It
appeared a few days later in London, and the English journals spoke of it in

terms of great praise.

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CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE wax. VARIETATES NOVAE,

1. FUSCUM. 2. PICTURATUM. 3. IMMACULATUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p: 7:
Cypripedium insigne. Vide Lindenia, IX, p-. 63.

ep he fresh plate which we herewith devote to Cypripedium insigne will
enable one to appreciate at a glance the extent of the variations of
this remarkable species, and to compare the merits of the various

forms.

The three varieties pourtrayed by our artist were exhibited at a Meeting
of the ORCHIDEENNE on January ro last, by Messrs. Lucien LinpEN & Co. of
Moortebeek in a beautiful group which contained not less than thirty distinct
and superior varieties, a collection such as could not fail to create a sensation.
From them we have chosen to be painted three of the most characteristic
varieties, the description of which is herewith appended : —

Var. fuscum. This is a remarkably large flower ; the upper sepal is folded
backwards at the base, broadly spreading upwards, and very wavy at the top,
while the petals are very long and broad.

The colour of this variety is very striking and uncommon. The whole
flower is bright yellow with a tinge of green on the upper and lower sepal, and of
brown on the lip; the petals are delicately striped with brown, and washed with
the same colour at the edges, while the upper sepal has a great number of large
purple-brown blotches arranged in longitudinal lines. On the whole this variety
may be compared to an extremely large Chantinii varnished with a wash of
bright yellow.

The variety picturatum presents a very dark and spotted appearance. The
upper sepal, which has a white base slightly shaded with clear yellowish green
is covered with a mass of large contiguous blackish purple-brown blotches,
somewhat after the fashion of certain hybrids from C. villosum Boxallii. The
petals present a similar appearance — one very rarely seen on these organs;

_ they are large and broad, the whole of the clear yellow surface being dotted

with large brownish-red blotches. The lip is light brown and the staminode
yellow.

The variety ¢mmaculatum is on the whole very pale. The white upper sepal
has a greenish yellow area at the base extending upwards a little beyond
the centre, and traversed by some very delicate brown lines. The petals are

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a pale greenish yellow with several yellowish brown lines running lengthwise
down the lower half. The lip is yellowish, washed with pale brown at the tip.

These three varieties have a very distinct, and as regards the two first,
even novel appearance. They were selected by the Judges of the OrcHIDEENNE,
from the large group in which they stood, to receive the First Class Diplomas
of Honour, the two first mentioned varieties obtaining the award unanimously.

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DELIGHTFUL VARIETY.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, Pris.
Cattleya Trianae. Vide Lindenia.
Var. deliciosa L, Linp., infra.

Pp he charming variety represented by our plate belongs to the collection
ga of Dr. Capart, one of the most enthusiastic of Belgian amateur orchid
= growers, and a Judge of the Orcuiptenne. He showed it before this
Society on January ro last when it received a First Class Certificate of Merit.
Although not altogether equalling C. Trianae imperator figured in this work last
year, it is nevertheless worthy of a place in an iconography as one of the most
beautiful forms of C. Trianae. Its flowers are large and well proportioned, with a
broad rounded lip beautifully shaded with purple red, which is of a very deep
tint in front, and encroaches somewhat upon the golden yellow disc.

We have already had occasion to mention some of Dr. Capart’s Orchids
and to figure a few of them. The collection of this confirmed orchidist has rapidly
increased and may be cited, among others in Belgium, as one which keeps
in the front rank of progress, a fact which is proved when we add that
Dr. Capart’s conservatories are lighted by electricity. That seems to us to be
an excellent idea and in itself reveals the veritable amateur — he who collects
plants, not only as in investment for his fortune, retains his position, and
occasionally shows visitors over his houses, but also, and more especially,
to benefit by it himself and often to imbibe renewed vigour in the contem-
plation of the beautiful. The installation of electricity enables Dr. Caparr to
enjoy the sight of his plants when he returns home after a hard day’s work
in the alleviation of human suffering, and also to show his friends his collection.
Should not the conservatory be one of the chief and most artistic of reception
appartments ? It must however, be lighted, and for this purpose gas is entirely
out of the question. Orchids, and Cattleyas in particular, are not hard to grow;
but one of the conditions indispensable to success is the purity of the atmosphere,
and the only illumination which enables one to realise it is the electric light.

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PHAIUS WALLICHI, P. GRANDIFOLIUS AND P. BLUMEI.

These three plants belong to ‘a somewhat badly defined group. Horticulturally,

- they retain distinct names, but these are often misapplied and confounded with each

other.
As a matter of fact these species differ but little from one another. When describing

P. Wallichi, the editor of the Botanical Magazine, regarded them as being very nearly
related. REICHENBACH also expressed the opinion that P. gvandifolius, P. Blumei, and
P. Wallichi might be considered as forms or sub-species of the same type.

P. grandifolius is longest known, having been introduced in'1778; it was soon
followed by P. Blumei, while the introduction of P. Wallichi dates from 1837.

P. grandifolius produces a racemose cluster of 12 to 20 flowers on an erect peduncle
a foot or more high, each bloom measuring about 4 inches (10 centimétres) across. The
sepals and petals are lanceolate acute, with a few longitudinal veins on a yellow ground
shaded with pale brownish red, the outer surface being silvery white. The lip forms
a tube encircling the column, and expands in front into an ovate-cordate limb, crisped on

- the margin; it is wholly white, with a deep yellow throat prolonged into a paler stripe

of the same colour along the median line; at each side of the opening of the tube is
a faint trace of purple rose, while the anterior portion is sometimes spotted with the
same colour. The spur is short and curved.

This species varies somewhat and this is explained by the fact of its wide geo-
graphic distribution, being met with in the Southern Himalayas, in Cochin China and
in Australia.

P. Blumei, which was described by LinpLey and discovered in Java by BLume,
has broader segments of a deeper colour and is distinctly mottled.

P. Wallichit has somewhat larger flowers, with narrower linear lanceolate sepals
and petals of a brownish yellow, the outer surface being of a. grayish white colour.
The ovate lip, which folds over the column and has a reflexed tip, has an orange
tube, and a yellow disc lightly striped with red and bordered with red on each side.

This form is often met with in gardens under the name of P. Manni; it is also
very variable, and collectors have come across four differently coloured varieties.

These species of Phaius should be grown in a warm intermediate house in a
compost of fibrous loam, with a little sphagnum and peat. P. grandifolius seems to
require a little less heat, and may very well be grown during the middle of summer
in the Cattleya house. |

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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUMES:

qst

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stone, Dendrobium

Volume

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum X Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsisspeciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

22d Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani,
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, r
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium X Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

Burlingtonia pu- | Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laeliocattleya
Cattleya X > Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum

crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchosty lis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum,

3 Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var, albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasiog] iltonia Phal psis, Od gl > excellens var. dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

teria. Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hender i Seleniped udatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae var, tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya >< Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laeliocattleya < elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella)Lindeni.

5 Volume

Angraetum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya

. amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripedium >< me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia X Oweniae, Laeliocattleya <

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpnrea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Mitonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

6 Volume

Aerides Lawrenceae, Aganisia lepida, Catasetum Imschootianum, Cata-
setum Rodigasi var. ‘b Cattleya Aclandiae var. salmonea,
Cattleya Eldorado var. Treyeranae, Cattleya velutina, Chondrorhyncha
Chestertoni, Cymbidium grandiflorum var. punctatum, Cymbidium Lowia-
num, Cypripedium X Claudii, Cypripedium >< conco-Lawre, Cypripedium
> Lathamianum, Cypripedium > Lawrebel, Cypripedium philippinense,

Cypripedium >< Weathersianum, Galeandra Claesii, Laelia purpurata var.
fastuosa, Laeliocattleya >< eximia, Lycaste cinnabarina, Masdevallia
‘Pourbaixi, Maxillaria striata, Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, Odonto-
glossum Triomphe de Rambouillet, Vanda tricolor var. Hoveae, Zygope-
talum grandiflorum, ;

7 Volume

Cattleya Aclandiae var. tigrina, Cattleya Eldorado var. Lindeni, Cattleya
Eldorado var. Oweni, Cattleya Trianae var. Caparti, Cymbidium eburneum,
Cypripedium > Dallemagnei, Cypripedium > Gibezianum, Cypripedium

Godefi var. | hil ypripedium insigne var. montanum, Dendro-
bium Wardianum var. Lindeniae, Laelia < juvenilis, Laelio-Cattleya ><
Cauwenberghei, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. leucotata, Lycaste < Im-

schootiana, Lycaste Luciani, Masdevallia Davisi, Maxillaria mirabilis, Odon-
toglossum cirrhosum, Odontoglossum cordatum var. aureum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Dallemagneae, Odontoglossum crispum var. ocellatum, Odon-
toglossum crispum var. Waltonense, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Cha-
beriae, Trichopilia suavis, Zygopetalum intermedium var. peruvianum,

8h Volume

Anguloa X Madouxiana, Bifrenaria tyrianthina, Catasetum Lindeni, Cata-
setum Luciani, Catasetum macrocarpum var. Lindeni, Catasetum splendens
var. album, Catasetum splendens var. atro-purpureum, Cattleya Cupidon,
Cattleya guttata var. tigrina, Cattleya x Harayana var. Luciani, Cattleya
Mossiae var. Treyeranae, Cattleya Mossiae var. Wageneri, Cattleya Mossiae

var. Wambekeana, Cycnoches Loddigesi, Cypripedium Charlesworthi, Cypri-
pedium X Denisianum, Eria cinnabarina, Laelia purpurata var. Comte
de Montebello, Laelio-Cattleya xX Lindeni, Mormodes Cogniauxi, Odonto-
glossum nebulosum var. amabile, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Prince of
Orange, Oncidium cristatum, Thunia Winniana.

9% Volume

Catasetum Bungerothi var. aurantiacum, Catasetum imperiale, Catasetum

~ mirabile, Catasetum splendens var. Aliciae, Cattleya gigas var. amplissima,
Cattleya Leopold II, Cattleya. Mossiae’ var. amoena, Cypripedium X Félix
Faure, Cypripedium Madame Octave Opoix, Dendrobium nobile var. can-
didulum, Laelia glauca, Laeliocattleya x Sayana, Laelio-Cattleya x Varje-

nevskyana, Masdevallia ludibunda, Masdevallia triangularis, Maxillaria
Lindeniae, Odontoglossum Edwardi, Odontoglossum X _ Halli-xanthum,
Odontoglossum X_harvengtense, Odontoglossum pulchellum var. majus,
rr iael age Schomburgkia rosea, Stauropsis gigantea, Zygopetalum

to Volume

Bulbophyllum carinatum, Catasetum fimbriatum var. Cognauxi, Cata-
setum punctatum, Catasetum species novae, Catasetum stupendum, Cattleya
Aliciae, Cattleya Mossiae var., Cattleya Mossiae var. Reineckeana subvar
exquisita, Cattleya Mossiae var. alba subvar. coelestis, Cattleya Skinneri
var. oculata, Cypripedium > Aylingi Castle Stand Hall. var., Cypripedium ><

Evenor var. grandiflorum, Cypripedium Lawrenceo Regnieri, Eulophia
Cong , Laelia lis var. alba, Laelio Cattleya Schulziana,
Odontoglossum crispum var. luteo-radiatum, Oncidium onustum, Rhyn-
chostylis retusa, S labi pull , Stauropsis Lissochiloides, Vanda
Parishi var. Marriottiana, Vanda spathulata.

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ICONOGRAPHY
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CONDUCTED BY

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM tinpL. var. KEGELJANI L. LIND.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM umox. var. KEGELJANI v. ump.
Mr. F. KEGELJAN’S VARIETY OF 0. CRISPUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 101.
| Var. Kegeljani L. Liyp., Sem. Hort., 1, p. 89.

s@ his is one of the beautiful varieties recently referred to when speaking
4 of the importations which the establishment of Messrs. Lucien LinpEN
sé and Co., at Moortebeek, has been fortunate enough to obtain.

O. crispum Kegeljani is a form with a rare and remarkable colour. Its

‘flowers are very much spotted with reddish brown, but the spots, contrary to

what is usually seen, are very numerous and are scattered all over the surface;
they almost entirely cover the sepals, being disposed in large masses, while
they are smaller on the petals, in the centre of which they are chiefly clustered.

_ The spots are distinctly visible on the outer surface of the segments to which

they give a somewhat redder tint. A large oblong blotch decorates the anterior
portion of the lip, which is otherwise covered with small spots at the sides and
on the yellow disc ; in addition the fringed edges are dotted with rose which gives
a charming effect. All the segments are broad and well-shaped, and the flower as
a whole is large and exquisite. The colour of this-remarkable variety bears
some resemblance to that of A. Andersonianum, and it is very likely that cross-
fertilisation, as recently suggested in an article by Mr. De B. Crawsnay, has
played a part in the development of these two plants. But the segments of
O. Andersonianum lack the size of this beautiful rounded form, and we are thus
obliged to consider the subject of our plate as Belonge to the Pacho variety of
O. crispum.

Exhibited at a meeting of the OrcuipEENNE, on February 14", O. crispum
Kegeljani was unanimously and by acclamation awarded a First Class Diploma
of Honour; it also received an Award of Merit at the Royal Horticultural Society’s
meeting. in London on March g® last. It is dedicated to Mr. F. KEGELJAN,
one of the founders of the Brussels Society, and one of the most courteous
veterans among Belgian amateurs.

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ORCHIDS AT HOME

British Guiana. — Several years ago a Demerara journal published some inte-

resting observations on the cultivation of Orchids and their natural life in that region.

Here are a few extracts from them : —

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“ In the cultivation of Orchids it is necessary to remember that they exist upon
the gases and watery vapour which they imbibe from the atmosphere, and that they
require a tolerably calm situation, as very strong winds are extremely injurious to
them. The north and east winds which prevail at certain seasons parch them up,
and ultimately hill the plants if allowed free play upon them.

“When the atmosphere is calm, and the soil well watered a current of moist
air continually rises from the earth, and thanks to this the atmosphere remains in
a most favourable condition for the culture of epiphytes upon dwarf trees. Certain
species require very little shade provided they be well protected on the windy side
by a screen of foliage; others require a canopy of leaves to break up the force of
the sun-rays.

“ Two of the most robust and beautiful of these Orchids (Oncidium Lanceanum
and Cattleya superba) are fairly common about Georgetown, and are very often the
last survivals of a large number of species. They accomodate themselves to a drier
atmosphere than that required by others, and do not flower if too much shaded.

“A well grown Orchid has plump pseudobulbs and stiff and substantial leaves :
if shaded too much the leaves become limp and drooping, and if kept too dry, they
shrivel and drop off.

“It is a good plan to fix epiphytes to the under surface of branches, or on
the trunk beneath a fork in such a way that they receive moisture from the dews
or rains which trickle down the bark. Until the plants are furnished with roots,
they should be attached by means of wire, and once they are established this fastening
may be dispensed with, being no longer necessary and only a preventitive to growth.

“ In the cultivation of epiphytes many kinds of pots and baskets are used. The roots
should not come in contact with anything stagnant or foul, and rotten wood is
poisonous to them. Strong and healthy plants thrive well on blocks of wood or on
rocks, but open baskets made of strips of wood are to be preferred for the majority
of species. Many succeed better in pots than in any other way, especially in
greenhouses.

“The pots and baskets should be filled with a material which is at once porous
and at the same time retains moisture. For cultivation in the open air, broken pots
pieces of brick, and charcoal do very well; but for conservatories fibrous peat ae
sphagnum are better. It is advisable to dip the plants occasionally in order to get
rid of woodlice and cockroaches.

: As watering will depend upon the period of the year, and on the conditions under
which the plants are placed, it is impossible to formulate any definite rule, save
one, namely, that less water is required during the period of flowering. When Orchids
are in a well-ventilated place they cannot be watered too much, but in close and
moist quarters, excessive watering will rot them.

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(Continued on p. 32)

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM: u1np1.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM uot. var. AMI CHARLES t. uno.

Mr. CHARLES VAN WAMBEKE’S VARIETY OF 0. CRISPUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p- I0t.
Var. Ami Charles L. Linp., infra.

@ his delicate and exquisitely charming variety of Odontoglossum crispum

4, recently flowered at Moortebeek. The segments of the flowers are very
as broad and the general appearance is that of the finest Pacho type. The
sepals, which are tinged with rose down the centre, have a few irregular chocolate-
coloured blotches. The petals are decorated with numerous chocolate-brown
dots, grouped on each side of the median line, and with two or three larger
spots near the apex. The lip is heavily dotted with brown, and has a large brown
blotch in front of the disc.

This variety is one of the most graceful which has appeared for a long
time. It is named in compliment to Mr. Cuartes Van WamekkE, the Brussels
amateur, some of whose choice Orchids we have had occasion to refer to as well
as to figure.

Odontoglossum crispum var. Ami Charles was exhibited at a meeting of the
Royal Horticultural Society, London, on March g* last, and received an Award
of Merit. It also obtained a First Class Certificate at the exhibition of the
Royal Botanic Society, Manchester, on March 16, and a First Class Diploma of
Honour was unanimously awarded at a meeting of the OrcHIDEENNE, Brussels,
on March 14.

Orchidists will see described, one by one, in the column headed “ The
Golden Book of Odontoglossums , which has just been opened by the Semaine
Horticole, the grand varieties which have hitherto appeared in this “ sublime
genus. , This happy idea will enable new and beautiful varieties to be made
known immediately they appear in collections, and before they can be reproduced
by chromo-lithography.

This year more than ever will be an Odontoglossum year!

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(Continued from p. 30)

Here are also a few notes published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle relating to the
habitat of Cattleya Lawrenceana :

“ This plant does not occur actually in the Roraima, as seems to have been
“ supposed in England, but along the bed of the Kookenaam River, where it flows
“ along the base of the South side of the twin mountains of Roraima and Kookenaam,
“ at a level of only about 3750 feet above that of the sea, and not of from 6000 to
“ 8000 feet as would be the case did the plant come from the Roraima itself. ,

The author of these notes having also sent a sketch showing Mount Kookenaam
on the background, continues : —

“ The stream in the sketch is the Kookenaam River, which here runs along the
“ bottom of a deep channel which it has cut for itself through the surrounding bare
“ savannah lands. In the shelter afforded by the high banks of this channel, among
“ the countless blocks of stone, of all shapes and sizes, which here occupy the bed
“ of the stream, grow many shrubs and stunted trees, and some few trees of greater
“ height.... It is on the trunks and branches, often big and gnarled, of the shrubs
“and trees down in this gully that Cattleya Lawrenceana grows in abundant splendour.
“ Even as I was making the sketch I saw on a tree close to me two most magni-
“ ficent clumps of this Orchid, on a tree overhanging the bathing pool of the Arekoona
“ village of Teroota, the better of the two having five spikes of flowers, of which
“one bore nine, each of the others eight blossoms, in all forty-one, of some of the
“ Jargest and finest Cattleya flowers ever seen on a single small plant, the roots of
“ which easily lay on my extended hand.

“Our Christmas decorations that day consisted of an enormous pile of these
flowers. And these were gathered after the Indians employed by Mr. SErpEL had,
day after day for many weeks, collected from that immediate neighbourhood two,
three, or even six enormous basketfuls of this plant, each basket a strong man’s
“load. These baskets, by the way, as many of the plants happened to be in full
“bloom, were strangely beautiful. The Indians asserted that the Cattleya, which they
expressively called by a word which means “ blossom of the wood , (trunk), grows
also along several of the other similar streamlets in the neighbourhood, though,
they added, not always so large and fine in form.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM®: rInbE.. var.-LINDENI Horr.

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PL. DLXVII.

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM uot. var. LINDENI soar.
_ Mr. J. LINDEN’S VARIETY OF 0. CRISPUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 101.
Var. Lindeni Hort., Sem. Hort., I, p- 58. — Gard. Chron., XXI (1897), p. 269.

‘a dontoglossum crispum var. Lindeni, which is dedicated to him who disco-
vered the type of this marvellous Orchid more than fifty years ago,
24 flowered for the first time last February with Messrs. Lucien Linven & Co.,
at Moortebeek, among an importation which had been received in May 1896.
Although the plant is still weak, having only three pseudobulbs and one lead,
yet the four flowers borne on the frail spike were comparatively speaking very
large. So as not to weaken the puny plant too much, it was deemed prudent to
let it flower for a few days only. The plant however is quite healthy and there is
no doubt that next year it will be seen under more favourable conditions.
What first attracted our attention were the perfect form of the flower and
the two distinct shades of the blotches — that on the petals being a beautiful
rich rose, while on the other segments it is a pale brown — the two colours

thus presenting a unique contrast.

So far as our own choice is concerned we would place O. crispum var.
Lindeni in the first rank by the side of the marvellous O. c. Luciani, the famous
augustum of Mr. Jutes Hye, and Baron Scuroéper’s apiatum, to all of which it is
equal.

The houses at Moortebeek, which contain many thousands of plants all
in vigorous growth, already comprise an extremely rich collection of fine varieties
and I should be very much astonished if the following among them were not
worthy of mention, viz : procerum, Adrianae, Ruckeri Margaritae, R. excelsior,
magnificum, musaicum, bellum, mirabile, Wilckeanum Leopoldi, W. tigrinum, W. lu-
teum, W. decorum, W. nobile, W. castaneum, W. grande, W. illustre, W. aurosum,
W. formosum, W. albescens, W. splendens, W. spectabile, etc., and out of this
enormous number of plants about two thousand have flowered up to the

present.

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PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS AND P. WALLICHI

We have again recently experienced a difficulty in distinguishing between certain
forms of these species and P. Blumei. Intermediate forms are met with and may just
as well be referred to one species as to the other, and there are also others so distinct that
they cannot be definitely referred to either one or the other although obviously belonging
to the same group.

It appears to us however that there is a method by means of which this question
may probably be settled, and this consists in observation of the seed pods.

It is known that these vary a great deal in form in the same genus, according
to the species. For example the greatly elongated seed pod of Epidendrum nocturnum
measures over 4 inches (rr centimétres), while that of E. nemorale, which is much more
enlarged and forms a kind of regular hexagon in cross section, does not exceed an
inch and a half (4 centimétres) in length. Among Cypripediums, Dendrobiums, Masde-
vallias, and Odontoglossums all orchidists have doubtless noticed remarkable differences
of a similar nature.

It would therefore be interesting to study and to compare the seed pods of
Phaius grandifolius, P. Blumet, P. Wallichi and various doubtful forms. Amateurs
might very readily assist in this transaction, being, free to cut the capsule as soon as
it has been well developed if they fear exhausting their plants. It would only be
necessary before fertilising each flower to note its colour with great accuracy.

We would also direct the attention of amateurs who are willing to make obser-
vations on this genus to the great use of making a transverse section of the pod in
the middle. A sketch of the whole does not show nearly so well the arrangement
and development ot the angles which are nearly always in evidence, and which are
formed by the sutures of the pods and sometimes by a kind of intermediate nerve.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM irXpt. var, LUCIANI unorr.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM unos. var. LUCIAN uorr.

Mr. LUCIEN LINDEN’S VARIETY OF O. CRISPUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, en peakry
Odontoglossum crispum, Vide Lindenia, Dis10r.
Var, Luciani Horv., Gard. Chron., XXI (1897), pp. 210, 268.

<2| dontoglossum crisbum var. Luciani was exhibited in London on March 23,

and excited the admiration of well known connoisseurs at the meeting
“4 of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was the only Orchid on the
occasion referred to which received a First Class Certificate — an award which
the London Committee scarcely ever gives to an old, well known, and variable
species unless it be a variety of exceptional merit indeed.

In addition Messrs. Lucren Linpen & Co. who exhibited this marvellous
plant, also received the Banksian medal for the group of Odontoglossums
of which it formed a part, and of which each plant was worthy of a detailed
description.

In the report of this meeting in the Gardeners’ Chronicle the following
appreciative remarks occur: “ The gem of the group was O. crispum Luciani
“which secured the only First Class Certificate awarded. The flower was perfect
“in shape, white tinged with rose and blotched with several large purple brown
“ blotches on each segment — a truly grand flower. ,

We have little to add to this favourable criticism of an eminent connoisseur
beyond commenting upon the accompanying plate from which the reader may
judge for himself as to the perfect beauty of the flowers. The segments are
very large, especially the splendid petals which have centiculate edges, and are
heavily marked with large bright reddish-brown blotches which form a striking
contrast to the white ground. The lip is also covered with a large number of
blotches more dense towards the apex but reduced to dots at each side c the
crest. One might almost say that this marvellous Odontoglossum is ne twin of
O. crispum augustum but we are inclined to prefer it ug that variety owing to its
excellent form which is that of the best Pacho variety. For several reasons
however we would rather leave the decision in the hands of our readers.

Is it not astonishing that such a popular species as Odontoglossing crispum,
which was introduced in 1842, and has been collected each year since in hundreds
of thousands, should still have such surprises in store for amateurs ?

Quite recently a very prominent orchidist with whom we were talking about

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the inquiry started in the Semaine Horticole, and who is particularly prejudiced
against hybridising, remarked : — “ J recognise the inconveniences, the troubles,
“and defects of hybridisation; but admit that it will be useful now to enable us
“to produce novelties as we cannot hope for any more very sensational disco-
“ veries from tropical explorations. ,

It seems to us that our interlocutor in speaking thus was guilty of ingratitude
to nature. One might say on the contrary that she had taken care to spread
out her discoveries and to deliver up her treasures only in such a gradual way
as to always furnish us with new pleasures.

The last ten years have contributed their proportion of novelties as brilliant
and almost as rich as in the glorious years when the genus Odontoglossum for
example presented its marvels for the admiration of the first orchidist. Speaking
of this genus alone and of its most celebrated species, O. crispum, is it not
surprising that the region containing it, which for many years past has been
overrun and ransacked by so many collectors, can still conceal such a number
of new and magnificent forms? Is it not also somewhat astonishing that they
are confined to some particular district, and that the fortunate collector who
happens to alight upon this spot gathers in at one cast of his net so many incom-
parable plants that one of them alone is sufficient to create a sensation?

During the last year anda half Odontoglossum crispum has been enriched
by the following list of remarkable .varieties, viz : augustum, calos, meleagris,
citratum, Lindeni, Kegeljani, Hyeanum, magnificum, Ami Charles, regale, Franz
Masereel, procerum, Ashworthianum, spectabile, and last of all ‘Luciani, which is
the brightest jewel in the crown. :

With the varieties, natural hybrids such as O. Wilckeanum and its varieties,
vufum, etc., O. X spectabile, etc., which are a few of the most remarkable, are
equally deserving of special mention. At Moortebeek and the HorricuLTuRE
INTERNATIONALE, are many other exquisite forms, unnecessary to enumerate, which
two years ago would have caused a sensation, but they cannot be compared with
the others.

Is it still necessary to refer to the superb additions which have enriched
Cattleyas, Catasetums, Zygopetalums, etc.? We think we have justified our
opening statements, and have demonstrated that the direct importations of
Orchids, far from diminishing, are as rich and as beautiful as ever.

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Part LXXVII. JuNE 1897

LINDENIA

ICONOGRAPHY
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CONDUCTED BY

J. Linpen and Lucien Linpen.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY J. WEATHERS.

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Odontoglossum x cirrho-Halli L. Lind. 374 \) Cyprpedium'><<Pauli-blortees iach pene eae

Cattleya Trianae Lind. var. eminens

Cymbidium Lowianum Rchb. f. var. flaveo-
Ly. Lind.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM x CIRRHO-HALLI L, rnp.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM x CIRRHO-HALLI tL. tuo.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.

Odontoglossum X cirrho-Halli. Hybridum inter O. cirrhosum et O. Halli artificiosa fecundatione productum.
Odontoglossum cirrho X Halli L. Linp., Sem. Hort., I, p. 109.

2\<( dontoglossum hybrids always attract more attention than any
other Orchid hybrids on account of their great rarety and the difficulty
experienced in obtaining them. In the houses of the Horricutrure
INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, an Odontoglossum hybrid has just flowered. It is the
result of a cross between O. cirrhosum and O. Halli, and is so obviously inter-
mediate between the two parents that there is no difficulty in recognising the
origin at the first glance.

The sepals and petals are oblong-lanceolate, very wavy on the edges,
and tapering to recurved and falcate points. They are pale yellow, faintly tinged
with green, and studded with numerous blackish brown eyelike blotches, as in
O. cirrhosum. The spots towards the outer extremity of each segment, however,
are larger than the others, while the white base of the petals is also striped with
purplish brown rose. The lip is furnished with two large rounded lobes at the
base, as in O. cirrhosum, and is prolonged in front into an acute tail. It has the
same colour as the other segments, with a deep yellow disc.

This beautiful hybrid has the merit of uniting to the graceful form, which
it derives from O. cirrhosum, the richness of colour which one admires so much
in O. Hallii. It possesses, besides, an exceptional interest, inasmuch as it may
help to elucidate the origin and parentage of several plants introduced directly
from Tropical America, which have been from the first considered as natural
hybrids.

Among the most prominent and best known of these plants may be cited
O. elegans, which in all probability is a natural hybrid between O. cirrhosum and
O. Hallii, and also O. Hinnus, which ReicHENBACH considered to be a hybrid
of similar origin when describing it.

According to this description, O. Hinnus has narrow, lanceolate, undulate
sepals and petals of a yellow and cinnamon colour. The lip, similarly coloured, is
narrow with a sub-hastate base, at first very broad, then sharply contracted. This
description is not sufficient to settle the identity of this plant with O. x cirrho-
Hallii, although it does not contradict it.

Messrs. Verrcn in their Manual have ranked O. Hinnus as a variety of

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O. luteo-purpureum, but Reicenpacu was certainly closer the mark in placing
it near O. elegans. a ;

_ We may add that this latter plant appeared in an importation of Odonto-
glossum cirrhosum, thus constituting one of the first proofs, while the colour and
form of the crest, on the other hand, strongly indicate the influence of O. Hallii.
Then comparison with the artificially-raised hybrid, shown on the accompanying
plate, helps to confirm the community of origin, taking everything into account
of course, to a certain extent, in regard to the well known variability generally
prevalent among hybrids.

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CATTLEYA TRIANAE tinp. var. EMINENS t. uinp.

SUPERIOR VARIETY OF C. TRIANAE.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15.

Cattleya Trianae. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 63.

Var. eminens. Floribus amplissimis; sepalis candidis,
purpureo-rubro maculato, albo marginato.

Var. eminens L. Linp., Sem. Hort., I, Pree

petalis pallide roseo suffusis, labello pallide roseo,

72g his beautiful variety first appeared last season in the establishment of
XU Messrs. Lucien Linpen and Co. at Moortebeek, near Brussels, among
ty some importations which had been received the previous year. It was
shown at a Meeting of the OrcuIDEENNE on January ro, and received a First Class
Certificate of merit.

It is remarkable for the great size of its flowers and the vivid contrast of
colour which they display. The very broad, almost round petals, which have very
wavy edges, are a pale rose colour, while the sepals are pure white. The lip has
a pale rose tube, somewhat more highly coloured at the edges, and exhibits a
broad carmine-purple red blotch on the anterior lobe bordered in front with

a thin white band, while the yellow disc is surrounded by a white zone at the
opening of the tube. On the whole this is one of the most perfect forms of
C. Trianae in cultivation.

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WHAT CONSTITUTES, A BEAUTIFUL CATTLEYA MOSSIAE?

Since the latter part of April, we have received a certain number of Orchid blooms,
and especially many of Cattleya Mossiae, sent by subscribers who ask “ What is this
variety? ” and also “ Is it a good variety? ”

We reply to our correspondents to the best of our ability, but questions of this
kind suggest two generally unfavourable observations concerning which we here wish
to speak in detail.

First of all, what may be called a “ good variety ” of Cattleya Mossiae?

In the opinion of good judges, the qualities to be looked for in a fine variety
are as follows : — a bright colour, that is to say, the sepals and petals should
be bright rose; the lip blotched with brilliant purple red, and the yellow blotch at
each side of the opening very brilliant and well defined; size, that is to say, all
the segments should be large; then a good appearance, with sepals and more
especially the petals well open and spreading, the petals being gracefully recurved
like the wings of a bird in full flight. These characteristics are to be found in
C. M. Linden’s Champion, Empress Queen, Moortebeekiensis, Lucienne, Fohn Schulz, Amis
Alexis, triumphans, exquisita, etc., which are perhaps the most imposing forms we
have yet seen.

If “ rules for judging ” Cattleyas were formulated, and especially for C. Mossiae
that is doubtless the lines upon which they would be drawn up; but they would
not be complete without the addition of a few remarks.

The type just described is that generally most highly esteemed among the existing
forms of C. Mossiae: It is a choice from among a crowd. There exist however very
rare and much appreciated forms, which do not altogether conform to this type. In
the first place, and as an example of the exceptions, we may mention the white
varieties which are exceedingly rare. There are also varieties which have only the
sepals and petals white, and these are sometimes highly esteemed, such as C. Mossiae

‘alba coelestis, which has flowered for the first time at Brussels and has been figured

in the Lindenia. This remarkable variety has a white lip with a large orange-yellow
blotch on the disc and the edges of the throat, and some bright lilac lines in front.
In C. Mossiae Reineckiana, the lip is decorated with a graceful tracery of more or
less spreading red lines, and Mr. Piret’s C. Mossiae variabilis has white segments,
a red lip lightly tinged with violet, and each side of opening striped with yellow
and buff. This last variety however has flowers smaller than usual and a quite different
but always beautiful appearance, and may perhaps be a natural hybrid rather than a
variety of C. Mossiae.

Other distinct forms may also merit the title of “ good varieties ” if they possess
a rare colour in conjunction with a good aspect and large segments — features which
should always exist. At the same time personal taste always reserves its rights when
it is a question of choosing between two varieties which come under this category
and exhibit these qualities.

As to the names of varieties, they are not often easily indicated owing to the

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CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 27.

Cypripedium X Pauli, Hybridum inter C. insigne Chantini et C. villosum Boxalli artificiosa fecundatione apud
exc. G. MITEAU productum.

Bee ypripedium x Pauli first appeared in 1894, having been obtained by

é@i Mr. G. Mrteau, the well-known Belgian amateur, by fertilising
Ad Cc. insigne Chantinii with the pollen of C. villosum Boxallii. It was
shown at a Meeting of the OrcHipsEeNnNneE on January 14, when it received a First
Class Diploma of Honour. At the following Meeting on February 11, the raiser
exhibited a new and more highly coloured form of it, which was awarded a First
Class Certificate of Merit, under the varietal name of éximium.

The crossing of C. insigne with C. villosum is one of the most fortunate in the
genus, and it is also the source of the largest number of diverse forms. Thus,
in the year following the first flowering, Mr. G. Mrrzau again exhibited at a
Meeting of the Brussels Society a series of hybrids raised from the same cross,
which were so distinct, that one would have hardly guessed, unless told before
hand, that they all had the same origin. Some had a very light colour, like that
figured in our plate, others were very dark, while the blotches on the upper sepal
were more or less numerous or scarce, &c.

These differences are easily explained when it is remembered that the two
parents, and particularly C. imsigne, are extremely polymorphous; and it will
suffice to show the wide range, to mention that C. Sallieri is generally believed to
be the result of the same cross which has produced many reputed hybrids.

C. X Pauli is quite intermediate between its two parents. From C. insigne
it derives its light colour, good appearance, the clear yellow blotch which covers
two thirds of the lower portion of the upper sepal, and the broad white band at
the apex of this segment; while C. Boxalli supplies the large and well-formed
petals, and the shape of the upper sepal the edges of which are folded backwards at
the base. The magnificent cluster of purple-brown Dicieee which ae almost
to the apex of the upper sepal, and assume a more violet tint on a white border,
remind one a little of both parents, but more especially of C. insigne. The
influence of C. villosum is shown chiefly in the size of the Rowers ane the form of
the petals, as is the case in most of the crosses in witek it nee been employed.

Mr. Grorce Mrreau is one of the principal Cypripedium piety and

os.

and his charming collection at

connoisseurs in Belgium deserving of mention,
cultivated plants

Jette-St-Pierre, near Brussels, consists of very choice and well-
of noble Orchids. He described and accounted for his passion two years ago in
the Fournal des Orchidées with great ability and a contagious enthusiasm which
could not fail to make converts. Many other first-class seedlings will doubtless
issue from his collection, the essential conditions for producing them — superior
varieties, and knowing how to combine them gracefully — being certainly realised
in his case. Besides, Cypripedium x Pauli is alone sufficient to indicate a memo-

rable event and to mark out a hybridist.

(Continued from p. 40)

number of varieties which exist. Only the names of the more remarkable and striking
varieties are retained and preserved. Beyond these forms of the first class, which
are naturally very rare, many amateurs give their plants distinguishing names, which
however cannot be regarded as of any value outside any particular collection or
circumstance. It frequently happens that the same variety receives several names
simultaneously in different collections, and it also happens that some of these varieties
cannot be identified with any degree of certainty, as the variations of Cattleya Mossiae
are infinite. The practice of giving names to various forms ought therefore to cease,
unless in the case of very choice varieties which have been figured in specially
illustrated publications.

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BRIGHT YELLOW VARIETY OF H. LOW’S CYMBIDIUM.

CYMBIDIUM. Vide Lindenia, V, p. 63.
Cymbidium Lowianum. Vide Lindenia, IX, p- 19.
Var. flaveolum Linp., infra.

fl Ff form of Cymbidium Lowianwm has already been figured in Volume 6
( = 2 of the Lindenia (Vol. 9. French Edition), which represents it in all its
At beauty and wealth of colouring.

The very distinct variety, shown in our present plate, is not the opposite of
that just mentioned, but a distinct deviation from the ordinary type in a quite
different direction. The totally distinct aspect of the segments, and especially of
the lateral sepals and petals, may even suggest some doubts as to the specific
classification, if the other portions of the flower, and notably the highly
characteristic lip, were not entirely similar in structure to C. Lowianum.

As to form, the lateral sepals and the petals, which are very long, greatly
contracted at the base and externally folded on the edges, present a unique
appearance, the flower as a whole being distinctly larger than in the type. As to
colour, we see not a pale form, or a kind of albino, but a flower highly coloured
with orange yellow at the apex of each segment, and especially the front lobe of

. the lip — the sepals and petals being of a clear yellow, washed with green at

the base. ;
Only one variety of C. Lowianum exists which up till now presented

similar characters, namely, the variety Mandaianum which was described by
Mr. H. Gower. We have not seen this plant, which is probably unique, but accor-
ding to the description, the flowers were of a uniform clear yellow, i for
the orange blotch on the anterior lobe of the lip. The new variety wee
now figure is therefore more highly coloured, and probably more striking

and beautiful.
It appeared at the beginning of this year among the importations of the

HorticuLturE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. .

It would be interesting to compare this remarkable variety with the various
forms of C. x eburneo-Lowianum and C. X Armainvillierense, in ae the general
colour is a pale yellow on ivory, and the lip has the same sali as in ie Lowianum
with its purple red blotch in front. It would also be interesting to cross

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LINDENIA

ICONOGRAPHY
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TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY J. WEATHERS.

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SCHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS paren.
THE FLUTE-PLAYER’S SCHOMBURGKIA.

SCHOMBURGKIA. Vide Lindenia, X, p. 89.

Schomburgkia tibicinis, Pseudobulbis conicis corniformibus annulatis sulcatis triphyllis, foliis oblongis coriaceis
patentibus, scapo longissimo tereti distanter squamato, apice paniculato, panicula pyramidali laxiflora, sepalis peta-
lisque undulatis crispis, labello oblongo cucullato venis per medium 5 elevatis approximatis, laciniis lateralibus apice
rotundatis, intermedia subrhombea emarginata, anthera emarginata.

Schomburgkia tibicinis BATEM., Orch. Mex, et Guatem., t. 30. Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 30. Bot. Mag., t. 4476.
— WILL. Orch, Alb., V, t. 205. — VeITcH Man, Orch. Pl., Il, p. 102.

Bletia tibicinis Reus. F., Xen. Orch., I, 58.

here was a time when this remarkable Orchid enjoyed great popularity,
and was to be found in almost every collection which had any preten-
sions to being complete. It is not so well known to modern orchidists
for two reasons : First, because the brilliant discoveries in such genera as
Laelia and Cattleya have caused its more modest qualities to be overlooked; and
secondly, because it has become rare, as have many other Central American
orchids, which are not now much imported, owing doubtless to the fact that the
attention of collectors has been turned away from those regions which no longer
possess many secrets.

Schomburgkia tibicinis is one of the oldest species of the genus, and with
the exception perhaps of S. Lyonsz, which is still more rare, is the most beautiful.
The flowers measure about 3 inches across, and are arranged on a lax panicle
at the apex of a peduncle more than a yard high. The segments are well
expanded, oblong obtuse, less undulated than in S. rosea or S. undulata, and
folded inwards at the middle. They are rose-coloured at the base, and a
beautiful reddish-brown from the centre to the tips. The large lateral lobes of
the trilobed lip, are much spread out and much less raised at the edges than
in Cattleyas and Laelias, and are orange yellow, profusely striped with purple-
red, marked in the centre and on the anterior edges with yellow. The outer
surface is purple-rose more deeply shaded towards the apex. The front lobe,
which is much narrower and shorter, is roundish and unguiculate, with a yellow
disc shaded to purple-rose in front, while the column is white washed with rose.
The flowers are usually produced in May.

The almost cylindrical, annulated, pseudo-bulbs are attenuated towards
the apex, and are from 8 to 14 inches (20 to 35 centimetres) high, and bear
two or three rather short, patulous, coriaceous leaves. They represent the

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form of a flute fairly well, and as they become quite hollow when dry, it appears
that the natives of Central America utilise them as flutes or horns, a circumstance
which suggested the specific name given by Bateman.

Schomburgkia tibicinis was discovered by Ure-Skinner in Honduras, and first
flowered with Mr. Bateman in 1840. It is met with in small quantities in
Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the southern parts of Mexico, and seems to be
somewhat variable both in regard to colour and the size of the segments. The
form figured herewith, recently flowered with Mr. J. Pauwets, at Deurne, near
Antwerp, and is one of the largest and most beautiful known. It unanimously
received a First Class Certificate of Merit at the May meeting of the ORCHIDEENNE.

Schomburgkias are usually grown in the same way as the Mexican Laelias,
with which, besides, they have much in common, and notably with L. superbiens,
and they succeed well in the most ventilated part of the Cattleya and Laelia
house. Their only defect lies in being somewhat too tall, but this does not
prevent them from producing a superb decorative effect at exhibitions or in
groups of flowering Orchids with amateurs. It is only necessary to arrange the
various plants on supports of different heights, and the Schomburgkias may
then be placed. in the centre or at the back of the group on the ground, which
will enable the beauty of their flowers to be seen to the best advantage.

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DENDROBIUM SUAVISSIMUM rcup. F.

VERY FRAGRANT DENDROBIUM.

DENDROBIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 13.

‘Dendrobium suavissimum. Affine D. chrysotoxo; planta humilior et validior majori numero speciminum
D. chrysotoxi, Pseudobulbi aggregati fusiformes bene stipitati, costis ad novem obtusangulis, vulgo triphylli. Folia
cuneato oblonga acuta, more illorum Dendrobii palpebrae et D. Griffithiani, laud magna, telae validae. Pedunculus
racemosus, laxiflorus. Bracteae minutae. Flores longe pedicellati, substantiae valde firmae. Sepala ligulata obtusa,
mento brevi conico oblique retusiusculo. Petala cuneato oblonga obtuse acutiuscula.. Labellum ab ungue brevi hastato
dilatatum oblongo transversum retusiusculum, limbo ac disco lamellis bipectinato ciliatis microscopicis tectum; late-
ribus energetice supra columnam volutis, Columna trigona, apice tridentata, dentibus lateralibus obtuse brevissimeque
semifalcatis. Basis columnae foveata. Anthera acuto conica. Flores pulchre aurei. Labellum disco macula reniformi,
in medio sinu postice obtusangulo prominula, ac striis quibusdam subparallelis angustis. Omnes hae signaturae obscuris-
sime atropurpureae. Callus transversus lineari subsemilunaris ante unguem. :

Dendrobium suavissimum RcuB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1874, 406; 1876, I, 756. Xen. Orch., II, p. 2, f. 202.
The Garden, 1878, t. 116.

Dendrobium chrysotoxum var. suavissimum, VEITCH, Man. of Orch. Pl., Il, p. 30.

et Co. from the higher regions of Burma, that is to say close to the

1.443) regions traversed by the Lower Irawaddy and Saluen rivers.

It was described in the same year by ReicHENBACH, in the Xenia, where the
celebrated German orchidographist quoted a note adressed to him in a letter
by Mr. Day, a distinguished orchidist of that period. After the first flowering
of the plant in his houses, Mr. Day described it by saying that for the purposes
of comparison it would be necessary to take a long inflorescence of D. ochreatum
(D. Cambridgeanum) and place it on a plant of D. Griffithianum.

Comparisons should never be pushed to extremes, and if we recall this
one made by a most competent connoisseur, it is because it presents an
example of the analogies that may be easily established between several species
of yellow-flowered Dendrobiums, which present among themselves many apparent
similarities, but at the same time differences sufficiently distinct.

D. suavissimum, for example, bears some resemblance to D. chrysotoxum,
and as may be seen from the references quoted above, it has even been ranked as
a variety of it; but it is distinguished by its habitat, period of flowering, habit
and colour. It is a native of a region somewhat distant from that in which
D. chrysotoxum is met with, and situated more to the north, and it flowers in
June, while the other flowers in March. Besides, it has pseudo-bulbs shorter

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and thicker, leaves broader and shorter, while at the base of lip, the flowers
have a large purplish-maroon zone which is absent from D. chrysotoxum.

As to D. ochreatum, to which it was compared by Mr. Day, D. suavissiomum
is readily distinguished by its habit, inflorescence, breadth of petals, and the
form of the lip which has serrulate edges and a non-apiculate tip.

Indeed, taking all things into consideration, we think it is sufficiently distinct
to be retained as a species.

It should be grown like D. thyrsiflorum, D. densiflorum, etc. in a warm and
fairly well ventilated house, and should have a good period of rest, but
abundance of water during the growing season. The flowering period lasts about
three months, during which time the young growths are developed, which
means that watering having been once commenced must not be withheld. It is
rare that Dendrobiums in this section suffer from having been kept too dry
during the winter, but once vegetation has begun, it is essential to assist it in
every possible way, the more so as it progresses rapidly.

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CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM ercup. F. var. TRIEUANUM L. LIND.

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CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM reuz. r. var. TRIEUANUM z. uno.

Mr. pu TRIEU pe TERDONCK’S var. of SIR TREVOR
LAWRENCE’S CYPRIPEDIUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17.
Cypripedium Lawrenceanum, Vide Lindenia, vol. I, p. 89 (var. Hyeanum).
Var. moortebeekiense L. LIND., supra, p. 39.

he new variety which we now figure flowered early this year at
Moortebeek, and has been dedicated to the devoted Treasurer of the
hin OrcHinEENNE, Mr. pu Trizu pe TERDONCK, one of the most capable of
Belgian amateurs. It may be considered as representing the apogee of the
beauty of this highly esteemed Bornean species. The upper sepal particularly
is exceptionally large and remarkably coloured, the red stripes with which it
is decorated being prolonged to the apex and anastomosing among themselves
at several points. The petals are very long, and the lip is of a deeper colour
than usual.
In an article published some years ago in the Journal des Orchidées, the
following observations concerning the climate of Borneo occur :
“ What characterises the habitat of Orchids in tropical regions, and
particularly in the Dutch Indies, is not, as one would imagine, a burning

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sun and a certain dryness of the soil. Most of the species, on the contrary,
grow in a very close atmosphere, shaded from the rays of the sun, and
“ plunged in a vapour bath constantly maintained by the long and continued
evaporation from pools of rain-water or springs. The temperature is very
“ high in these places, which are seldom penetrated by the sun, and the air
“ ig disturbed but little owing to the accumulation of vast heaps of leaves; the
“ sun dries very slowly, and the rising vapour remains stationary for a long
“ time in this stove-like atmosphere. ,

In spite of the enormous differences existing between these conditions of
life and those under which Orchids in Europe are grown, Cypripedium Lawren-
ceanum thrives remarkably well in cultivation, develops rapidly, and flowers
profusely every year. It is one of the most characteristic examples of flexibility
of temperament, and of the marvellous faculty of adaptation possessed by these
beautiful plants.

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“THE CULTURE OF MAXILLARIAS.

Maxillarias are usually cultivated in cool temperate houses, in the same way as
Lycastes and the Colombian Miltonias. The temperature which suits them best varies
from 9° to 12° C. (about 50° to 55° Fahr. ) according to the exposure and the construction
of the house. They may also be easily grown in temperate houses, the sweetest and
best ventilated positions being reserved for them, or even in the same house as the
Colombian Odontoglossums in places most edihins to the sun and least near the

ventilators.

if necessary the amateur who wishes to grow > Maxillarias in the same house as.

the cool Odontoglossums or Masdevallias, may reserve for them a certain portion of
the staging, above which may be placed a branch of hot-water pipe in order to heat
a little more this particular spot, and to create an ascending current of air ‘to protect
these. plants against a draught too strong for their liking. It is thus easy to make a
less encumbrous subdivision in a house and in case of need to dispense with it more
easily than it is to erect a separate compartment divided by partitions.

“It is hardly necessary to say that the distinction will hardly exist in summer,
as during this season there is rarely occasion for fire-heat in the alpine Odontoglossum
house. But watering would not be so frequent in the Maxillaria section, and damping
down the footpaths and stages would be less necessary. In the winter the temperature
indicated above should be maintained, and while the Maxillarias will require very
little water, most of the Odontoglossums must always receive plenty.

The cultivation of the two kinds of plants may thus be carried on easily together, -

and the difference between them will become less noticeable, if the system be adopted
of allowing the Odontoglossums, to remain in a state of comparative rest during the
warmest period of the year, and allow them to grow rapidly in the winter. One may
almost be content with the same temperature for the two Scie of plants, making
only a difference in regard to the watering. :

Maxillarias are mostly grown in pots; but M. Sanderiana, which produces its flower-
spikes rather low down and in a pendulous position, would be better in a basket, as then
one may be sure of not losing the flowers. M. Lindeniae, M. striata, which is of modest

/ growth, and M. venusta, are also cultivated occasionally in baskets. For compost, a
mixture of sphagnum moss and fibrous peat in equal parts, or a little more peat than
- sphagnum, may be used. ,

With some amateurs the leaves of Maxillaria poe bear black spots. This
is generally caused by the house being too moist. Good ventilation is the best remedy,
but care must be taken to give it only when the external temperature is fairly high,
and when the wind is not too strong.

At times, also, the leaves are attacked by thrips or other meerese “aihiich have

increased rapidly this’ year, having been favoured by the great heat. In such circum-
stances the leaves and the pots should be washed with. tobacco-water, and the stages
should be kept clean. As the least fold in the leaves may serve to harbour the insects
and their imperceptible eggs, it is essential to pass the sponge or brush over the entire
length of the leaves.

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PL. DLXXVI

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MILTONIA VEXILLARIA sentra. var. VITTATA v. uo.
STRIPED VARIETY OF M. VEXILLARIA.

MILTONIA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 31.
Miltonia vexillaria. Vide Lindenia, V, p. 21.
Var. vittata L. LIND., infra.

Ithough Miltonia vexillaria is pretty variable in regard to colour, still
its diverse forms have, as a rule, a uniformity of tint, ranging from
1: & bright to pale rose and sometimes white. The lip may be brighter or
darker than the other segments, but like them, it has one regular colour.

The variety shown in our plate is an exception on this particular point,
and is consequently very interesting. The petals and sepals are deep rose at the
base, passing through pale rose to white at the tips. In addition, the two lateral
sepals have two clear brown longitudinal stripes at the base extending as far
as the middle, and set in a long white blotch, such as is frequently seen on the
lip. This latter organ has a broad bright yellow blotch on the disc, and three
small spreading brown stripes in front of the crest. The disc is transversely
bordered with a broad white zone, which extends down the centre in a narrow
band. In front of this white band, and surrounding it, is a clearly defined
expanse of deep rose, which fades to white towards the edges.

The flowers are tolerably large, and on the whole constitute a very distinct
and attractive variety.

M. v. vittata appeared. among the importations of the HorricuLTuRE
INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, where many remarkable forms have for several years
revealed themselves, among them being the equally first class variety quadricolor.

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NOVELTIES.

Cattleya » Russeliana. This is a beautiful hybrid obtained from C. Schilleriana Regnelli
and C. labiata Warneri, by Mr. GEorGE MantIN who exhibited it at a special Orchid
Meeting in Paris on June 24" last.

The plant is manifestly intermediate between the parents indicated as much by
its habit as by its inflorescence. The flower is of a medium size, with petals as large
as those in the ordinary C. labiata, wavy at the edges, and of an intense rose colour
shaded with brown; the sepals which are much narrower are of the same colour, while
the lip reminds one very much of C. Schilleriana, but has a somewhat brighter colour.
The petals were not altogether expanded, and it is possible that the flower will open
better later on; if not, that will be the only defect of this truly remarkable hybrid.

Laelio-Cattleya delicata. This new hybrid, which has been produced by the same
raiser as the preceding one, is derived from Laelia pumila and Cattleya Eldorado virginalis.
It somewhat resembles Cattleya x Brymeriana, the origin of which is merely conjectural.
It is a little gem, having petals, sepals, and tube of lip shaded with an exquisitely
delicate tint of primrose yellow; the front lobe of the lip is larger than in L. pumila,
and is of a very intense purple-red which makes a striking contrast.

Mr. Georce ManrIN also exhibited at Paris on June 24 several other very inte-
resting hybrids, to which we shall again refer, but we may here specially mention a
form of Selenipedium x Duvali with a very light colour, reminding one very much of
S. longifolium, but having broader segments, especially the upper sepals, and a more
graceful habit.

Cattleya Mossiae Madame Garden. This variety was shown by Mr. GarDEN, of Bois
de Colombes, on June 24, at Paris, and is worthy of mention. The lip, which has a
very crisped edge, is of an almost uniform clear rose, and bears hardly a trace of
yellow on the disc.

Cymbidium Lowianum var. flaveolum, This variety appeared at the beginning of the
year among an importation of the HorTicULTURE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. So far
as form is concerned, the lateral sepals, and the very long petals, which are much
contracted at the base, and folded externally at the edges, have a character of their

own, and the flower is distinctly larger than that of the type. As to colour, we see,
not a pale form or a kind of albino, but a flower highly coloured with orange-yellow
at the tips of each segment, and especially the front lobe of the lip. The sepals and
petals are bright yellow tinged with green at the base.

Only one variety of C. Lowianum exists which up till now presented similar cha-
racters, namely the variety Mandaianum, which was described by Mr. H. Gower.
We have not seen this plant which is probably unique, but according to the description
the flowers were of a uniform clear yellow, except for the orange blotch on the anterior
lobe of the lip. The new variety is therefore more highly coloured, and probably more
striking and beautiful.

It would be interesting to compare this remarkable variety with the various forms of
C. xX eburneo-Lowianum and C. x Armainvillierense in which the general colour is a pale
yellow on ivory, and the lip like that of C. Lowianum with its purple-red blotch in front.

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Catasetum x splendens Cogn. var. rubiginosum L. Lind.
Cattleya labiata Lindl. var. superba L. Lind.
Cattleya x Le Czar L. Lind. :

Cattleya maxima Lindl. var. virginalis L. Lind.
Cattleya Trianae Lind. var. deliciosa L. Lind.

Cattleya Trianae Lind. var. eminens L. Lind.

Cattleya Trianae Lind. var. exornata L. Lind.
Cochlioda miniata L. Lind.

Cymbidium Lowianum Rchb. f. var. aeydelien: Tine:
Cypripedium insigne Wall. varietates novae ae.
Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Rchb. f. var. Trieuanum .
Cypripedium x Pauli Hort.

Cypripedium Victoriae Mariae Hort. .

Dendrobium suavissimum Rchb. f.

Masdevallia x Henriettae Kranz.

Miltonia vexillaria Benth. var. vittata L. Lind.
Odontoglossum x cirrho-Halli L. Lind.
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. Ami Charles -) ‘nee
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. Kegeljani L. Lind.
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. Lindeni Hort.
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. Luciani Hort.

Oncidium Phalaenopsis Lind. et Rchb. f. var. excellens L. Lind. :

Phaius xX Marthae Hort.
Schomburgkia tibicinis Batem. .

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUMES:

1st Volume

Phal. is, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Cattleya
parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium x Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

P ; Raa a.

Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
dios tanieliveras Oneidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

224 Volume

i i i i i sa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laeliocattleya
i issi i . Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu- | Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, | ;
bi ee amine, Coie hieglor, Gaulee x > Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, rt ce ee rape oor rei
Be vatiaves Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum, | crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis yoesee hynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
Cypipelium x vexillarium, Dendrobium < Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco- nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum,
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,
: 3"? Volume
Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den- teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium belle, Fasgativen
drobium teigibbe var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo- | Hend p caudatum var. bit nie ks ia violacea,
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste | Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stan opea Wardii var. venusta,
cbelona Miltonia Pi i d 1 > excellens var. dellense, | Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum,
> F ntog, :
Me Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-
4" Volume
, : ° 7 i i i . Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi
uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps; Bulbophyllum | Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var ; i Vallisi,
ele ate caitieys Aclandiae, Cattleya Alegacdtae var. elegans, Cattleya | Grammangis Ellisii, Laeliocattleya x elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
; “Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var. | vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Statteriana, Cattleya Hardyana var, Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro- Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
corys, Cypripedium Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dend ac- | gt Zygop (Wai ) Lindeni.
ey 5 Volume
A articul: B ia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya | amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya | var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne | Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
a é Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripedium >< me- | crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia < Oweniae, Laeliocattleya | planilabris,
ee 6 Volume
Aerides Lawrenceae, Aganisia lepida, Catasetum Imschootianum, Cata- | Cypripedium > Weathersianum, Galeandra Claesii, Laelia purpurata var.
setum Rodigasi var. L Cattleya Aclandiae var. salmonea, | fastuosa, Laeliocattleya >< eximia, Lycaste cinnabarina, Masdevallia ><
Cattleya Eldorado var. Treyeranae, Cattleya velutina, Chondrorhyncha | Pourbaixi, Maxillaria striata, Od 1 The i Odonto-
SS i

Chestertoni, Cymbidium grandiflorum var. punctatum, Cymbidium Lowia-
num, Cypripedium X Claudii, Cypripedium >< conco-Lawre, Cypripedium
> Lathamianum, Cypripedium X Lawrebel, Cypripedium philippinense,

glossum Triomphe de. Rambouillet, Vanda tricolor var. Hoveae, Zygope-
talum grandiflorum.

7° Volume

zya Aclandiae var. tigrina, Cattleya Eldorado var. Lindeni, Cattleya
.do var. Oweni, Cattleya“T'rianae var. © d, Cymbidium eburneum,
,pedium > Dallemagnei, Cypripedium X~Gibezianum, Cypripedium
\ yaesver. leuco hilum, Cypripedium insigne var. montanum, Dendro-
‘elite pep . Lindeniae, Laelia X juvenilis, Laelio-Cattleya
verghei, L io-Cattleya X elegans var. leucotata, Lycaste < Im-

‘a X Madouxiana, Bifrenaria tyrianthina, Catasetum Lindeni, Cata-
ciani, Catasetum macrocarpum var. Lindeni, Catasetum splendens
n, Catasetum splendens var. atro-purpureum, Cattleya Cupidon,
guttata var. tigrina, Cattleya Hardyana var. Luciani, Cattleya
ar. Treyeranae, Cattleya Mossiae var. Wageneri, Cattleya Mossiae

schootiana, Lycaste Luciani, Masdevallia Davisi, Maxillaria mirabilis, Odon-
toglossum cirrhosum, Odontoglossum cordatum var. aureum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Dallemag Od gl crispum var. ocellatum, Odon-
toglossum crispum var. Waltonense, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Cha-
beriae, Trichopilia suavis, ak agg intermedium var, peruvianum.

8th ‘Volume

var. Wambekeana, Cycnoches Loddigesi, Cypripedium Charlesworthi,
pedium X Denisianum, Eria cinnabarina,
de Montebello, Laelio-Cattleya x Lindeni, Mormodes Cogniauxi, Odonto-

Cypri-
Laelia purpurata var. Comte

glossum nebulosum var. amabile, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Prince of
Orange, Oncidium cristatum, Thunia Winniana.

9" Volume

um Bungerothi var. aurantiacum, Catasetum imperiale, Catasetum
vatasetum splendens var. Aliciae, Cattleya gigas var. amplissima,
eopold II, Cattleya Mossiae var. amoena, Cypripedium X Félix
oripedium % Madame Octave Opoix, Dendrobium nobile var. can-
aclia glauca, Laeliocattleya Sayana, Laelio-Cattleya X Varje-

nevskyana, Masdevallia 3 triangularis, Maxillaria
Lindeniae, Odontoglossum. Edwardi, Odontoglossum > _ Halli-xanthum,
0 h ig » Odontoglossum pulchellum var. majus,
Schomburgkia rosea, Stauropsis gigantea, Zygopetalum

Indiana Masi

Phaius maculatus,
Wendlandi.

toh Volume

‘um carinatum, Catasetum fimbriatum var. Cognauxi, Cata-
‘atum, Catasetum species novae, Catasetum stupendum, Cattleya
‘tleya Mossiae var., Cattleya Mossiae var. Reineckeana subvar,
‘attleya Mossiae var. alba subvar. coelestis, Cattleya Skinneri
, Cypripedium X Aylingi Castle Stand Hall. var., Cypripedium &

ds
ADvur..

Evenor var. grandiflorum,
Congoensis, Laelia autumn:
Odontoglossum cris
chostylis retusa, S

Cypripedium Lawrenceo Regnieri, Eulophia
alis var. alba, Laelio Cattleya Schulziana,
pum var. luteo-radiatum, Oncidium onustum, Rhyn-

1 I Stauropsis Li iloides, Vanda

Parishi var, Marriottiana, Vanda spathulata