petals similar in shape and colour, greenish-yellow, on the 
upper surface blotched with a rich purple brown. Lip 
nearly circular, ground yellowish-white, longitudinally 
striped with red-violet.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, column of Zygocolaw Veitchii; 2 and 3, front and back views of the 
pollinia of the same; 4, a flower of Zygopetalum crinitum, female parent, 
from Warner and Williams’s “Orchid Album,” vol. ix. t. 410; 5, a flower of 
Colax jugosus, male parent, from B. M. t. 5661 :—jigures 1-3 enlarged. 
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 
Tab. 7972. Rosa gigantea:—We are told that the 
record in the “‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” of this rose having 
flowered in Mr. F. Cant’s nursery was based on a mistake, 
so that the first flowering in this country was at Albury 
Park, as set forth in the Magazine for September. 
’ Messrs. F. Cant & Co., of Colchester, were written to on 
this point, but no reply has been received. The first 
flowering in Europe, we believe, was at Cannes. Sir 
Thomas Hanbury, writing to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, 
says: ‘I send you herewith a dried specimen of Kosa 
- gigantea, picked in the garden of the Villa Eléonore, at 
Cannes, where it grows against the house of Lord 
Brougham and Vaux, the owner. He has it in a box 
measuring, perhaps, 24 by 14 by 14 feet.” This com- 
munication is dated May 11th, 1898. In a previous letter 
he had mentioned that it was in full flower; but we went 
too far, perhaps, in saying that it flowers profusely on the 
Riviera. There is also a cultivated flowering specimen in 
the Kew Herbarium (received through Mr. G. Nicholson in - 
December, 1899), from Mr. R. Armstrong, Claremont, 
Cape Town. | 
Tab. 7973. Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii :—This plant was 
raised at Kew, in 1900, from seed collected in South 
Rhodesia by Mr. John Mahon, then Government Botanist, 
Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa, 
and now of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. 
Tab. 7974. Dendrobium Williamsoni :—Mr. W. Day is 
a misprint for Mr. John Day. 
W. Bi wt, 
