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REPORTS OF ' 



FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



in the colouring of the eye. The plants had tapering furrowed 

 reticulately-marked pseudo-bulbs, long plaited leaves, and flower- 

 stems a foot and a half high, gracefully nodding, and bearing 

 numerous flowers of a lively rose-colour, varying in intensity in 

 different plants, the base of the lip either white or a deeper rose. 

 The flowers were about the size of those of the Calanthe ; the 

 sepals and .petals oblong-lanceolate acute, the latter deeper in 

 colour ; the lip nearly square with rounded angles, notched at 

 sides and apex, the margin wavy, the base somewhat narrowed 

 and claw-like ; the ovary, spur, and exterior of the sepals downy. 

 This remarkable production was awarded a Fibst-class Certifi- 

 cATK, not less ia acknowledgment of its great intrinsic beauty, 

 than on account of the interest attaching to its origin. Dr. 

 Lindley has made* the subjoined comparison between the 

 plant, and its parents : 



The hybrid although completely intermediate between the 

 two parents, yet shows a rather greater tendency to its mother 

 than its father. Of the lather it has exactly tlie manner of 

 growth, and the peculiar four-lobed lip ; but it has the rich colour 

 of its n:iother, and some other peculiarities of her lip, along with 

 an entire correspondence in form with her column. The following 

 " " ' ?ill explain this still more clearly. — 



B. LiMATODlS ROSEA i CalANTRE YeITCHII— , 



_ '.male parent. \ hyhrid, between A— B. 



Pseudo-bulbs, narrow, j Pseudo-bulbs as in A. 







Spin; straight. 





n B, 1)111 longer. 



)cpah and Petals, se- 



Sepals and Petals, spread 

 ing equally. 



CO- : Lip, as r 



: PoUcn-masses, as r 



r Chrunicle, 1S5P, 



