Jone 11, 1887.] 
than that of terete or subulate leaves, it may be much 
e a créveceur to many. I 
cases my provincial 
who got quite cross 
T 
use, fashion rule the world—even the ties 
world. 
W e to congratulate our excellent veteran, 
Mr. Net Low, for the introduction of this Indo- 
pou p My oldest English "еер 
3 wishes о name it in honour of an enthusiastic 
a orchidist, "T. A. x mes, Esq., Boston, Mass. H. G. 
_ Re. f. 
x pora Vertcun, Rolfe (a bigeneric hybrid 
n Colax j E gage (male) and Zygopetalum 
чна (female). 
way of an artificial hybrid 
of so remarkable а etm as the subject of the 
presen ike 
rmer it was raised in the 
establishment of "nes Jie M ei 
and furnishes another proof of the skill of 
Seden as a hybridist. It was obtained by crossing 
talum crinitum with the pollen of Colax 
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jugosus, the seed having been s 
1882, and the ix) flowers were produced in March of 
the preseht ye was exhibited at the meeting of 
the Royal Потоа Society on March 22 last 
as Zygopetal Veitchiix, and deservedly ob- 
tained a ite ey Ce 
own in September, 
We 
н 
time. Wh .. Veitch were good enough 
to send me a flower for exam илан, knowing t the 
great differences in the ary apparatus of th 
see how far it combined 
It was an exciting moment, but I at once saw that 
POLITUM. (sEE Р. 704.) 
Fic, 143.—crPRIPEDIUM 
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Zygopet talum was out of the question, and e the 
term used to indicate the whole 
—pollinia, caudicle, bog gland) 
ve о the two 
rmer precedents 
is altogether out of the question, and would чр us 
in untold difficulties. The epiphytic Cyrtopodiex, in 
which the upper sepal is free from the 2 of the 
column, fall naturally ime — о» e in wh 
the thier is which 
it is short and broad ; hem falling into the former 
of these groups, and aem lum =ч се latter. 
'To ignore these differences because not 
made them proof печ ‘the arts of de "hybridist, 
would be to discard the very characters on which 
existing genera are based, and judging by present 
appearanc idi t 
is bad in itself, for, to reverse the process, we migh 
separate those species n though hitherto con- 
sidered as belonging to the same genus, m rs not 
hybridise together. The j^» safe plan con 
sider these hybrids as artificial “productions, Vil te 
tre 
eat them ET In my opinion, the pre 
cedent set by Dr. Masters in the case of Philageria 
is a safe one to follow We may therefore call the 
present plant Z vgocolax, a name suggested with the 
П 
full concurrence of the Messrs. Veitch, and of some 
of my colleagues 
Dx Veitchii € ovoid, much compressed 
pseudobulbs, with two or three linear- — 
leaves, 9—12 inches gie the basal leaves being a 
little broader and shorter than the "eid ones, Scape 
а little shorter than the leaves, with a few sheathing, 
LN acute bracts, and sh چو‎ ur flowers, 
r 2 inches The sepals and 
ob i are very light raptu ye ме w, ibd with 
numerous small blotches of purple-brown, and the 
uP yellowish-white, — — striations of 
iolet-purp'e. In colou hes the seed 
ret than ‘the hice fec iem the ground 
colour of the segments g more yellow, s 
the markings smaller and more numerous than 
Zygopetalum, indicates an approach to the yeilen 
parent. con- 
= 
a 
In Colax, however, the markings are с 
