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the next number of Gard. Chron., as Rchb. f. never 

 failed to speak out the venom of his feelings. If he 

 failed that time at that place, the contemporaneous cor- 

 respondence only would chronicle the opposite, and 

 manuscript assertion cannot be regarded superior to non- 

 protested publication. 



Special interest has been aroused by all those crosses 

 in which Spd. caudatum Lindenii participated; and well 

 it might. If the progeny of this abnormal peloria shows 

 pouches exceeding in size by far what human calcula- 

 tion would predict, we are confronted with a problem 

 worthy the engagement of any scientist's study. I 

 enumerate all those cases belonging here. Of Spd. 

 grande var. macrochilum (longifolium $ X caudatum 

 Lindenii) it is said that its lip is " twice as large as of 

 longifolium." Spd. Hardyaiium var. Penelaus (cauda- 

 tum Lindenii X Ainsworthii calurum x). Spd. gigan- 

 teum (caudatum Lindenii X grande x), of an ''unusually 

 large form." Spd. nitidissimum Clonius (conchiferum 

 x ? X caudatum Lindenii), "with a large chaste lip." 

 All of which cases go to show that the variety Lindenii 

 fails to impart its abnormal state to any of the seedlings 

 raised; indeed, it is hard to say with certainty whether 

 this peloriate variety had taken part in any of those 

 productions of the gardener's skill. 



About other genera, I have to mention generally only 

 that my arrangement with Phalaenopsis leucorrhoda is 

 made according to records published with those supposed 

 hybrids which I now group under that name. The mass 

 of Calanthe vestita hybrids has become so mixed that we 

 might just as well give up the hope of restoring order 

 in their ranks. But that much is certain, that if we 

 cross a variety of vestita with another one of the same 



