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ject. 
15th of September last, I received from Robert Steyner Holford, 
Esq., of Westonbirt, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, a lowe: 
spike bearing flowers of Cycnoches ventricosum and C. ghee 
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foundation, ; as 
For some years no further case of this so-called sporting ee 
observed, though other species were successively described, an of 
1852 Lindley gave an enumeration of the “so-called Species: 
Cycnoches” (Paxt. Fl. Gard. iii. ts 
that five of them had not been known to sport. Two, however, @ 
now excluded from the genus, : hahaa 
In 1852 Cycnoches Warscewiezii was described by ie A 
(Bot. Zeit. x. p. 734) on what, from internal evidence and ee 
flower preserved in Lindley’s Herbarium, is now known to a 
female of some species of Cycnoches, but the material for se ce 
identification is still wanting. The species afterwards figured un 
the same name is quite different, threw 
The discovery of sexuality in the allied genus Catasetum ose 
the first ray of light upon the subject, but the matter eae ; 
cleared up, and Darwin, in 1862, commenting on the cases 4 "269) 
mentioned, remarked (Fertilisation of Orchids, ed. 1, p- : ge 
“From the analogous differences in the labellum of the — nd 
Catasetum we may believe that we here see the male, female, 
hermaphrodite forms of the Cycnochss” hibited 
In 1879 another remarkable example 2g toni and was = 14th 
at a meeting of the Royal Horticultura Society on October : 
