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and French trade growers who have on previous times done so much 
towards the success of these exhibitions are Mons. Vuylsteke, Mons. Pauwels, 
MM. Duchesne & Lanthoine and MM. Vacherot & Lecoufle. 
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WILsonaRA DEceEpTion.—The generic term Wilsonara was formed to 
include hybrids composed of Cochlioda, Odontoglossum and Oncidium. 
The first one having this combination was W. insignis (O. illustrissimum 
xX Oncidioda Charlesworthii), the second appeared in W. Sanderze (Oda. 
Sanderze X On. macranthum), and now we record a third in W. Déception 
(Oda. Charlesworthii X On. macranthum), which has been raised by 
Messrs. Sanders. At first sight it appears to be a greenish variety of On. 
macranthum, there being but little evidence of Oda. Charlesworthii, and 
the specific name denotes this deception. 
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MASDEVALLIA Davisi1.—This species is said to be the only one of the 
genus whose flowers are pure yellow. It was discovered by Davis, in 1873, 
when collecting for Messrs. Veitch on the eastern Cordillera of Peru, a short 
distance from Cuzo. It was found growing on the mountains at a con- 
siderable altitude, about 11,000 feet. Bungeroth described it as growing 
on the mountain sides in the cool shady places, often watered by a small 
stream, and along with Sobralias. The natives call the flowers banderitas, 
meaning little flags, because at a distance they appear like little standards, 
standing erect among the foliage that surrounds them. 
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EPIDENDRUM ARMENIACUM.—Originally imported by Messrs. Rollissons, 
of Tooting, this species was the subject of a coloured plate in the Botanical 
Register, t. 1869, where we read: ‘It was first seen in England in flower 
in the year 1835, at one of thase splendid exhibitions in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, which attest more strongly than even the country 
residences of our nobility and gentry the skill and perseverance of English 
gardeners. There, in the midst of the dazzling scarlet or pink of various kinds 
of Cacti, and surrounded by the brilliant plumes of Chinese Azalea flowers, 
that weighed down their graceful branches, which really seemed as if they 
were proud of their lovely burthen, from a basket of humble moss, a little 
tuft of stems of this species was seen to rear its modest head, as if in hope- 
lessness of attracting notice in so gay acompany. The neatness, however, 
of its tiny flowers, the pleasing tint of its apricot-coloured petals, the 
elegant form of their slightly nodding or even drooping clusters, and the 
novelty of their form in so well known a genus as Epidendrum, arrested the 
curious observer, who soon found the symmetry and’simpleelegance of the 
little blossoms of Epidendrum armeniacum compensate for the absence of 
those more obvious beauties that adorned its gaudier rivals.” 
