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out of the same importation, but we gave reasons for regarding the novelties 
as natural hybrids between the two others (O.R., ii. pp. 355-357)» one of 
which had previously flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. Other 
forms subsequently appeared, and a series of figures was published. The 
events indeed caused a good deal of excitement at the time, but the plants 
seem to have vanished almost as rapidly as they appeared. A few, how- 
ever, remain, and are occasionally met with. The history of the question 
was given at pp. 43, 85 of our third volume. The form figured in the Feld 
most resembles the C. macrocarpum parent.—R.A.R. 
HEMIPILIA AMETHYSTINA.—A very pretty little Orchid, which was found 
ina recently imported clump of Cypripedium Charlesworthii, has flowered 
in the collection of A. Grant, Esq., Rugby House, Cleethorpes. It proves 
0n comparison to be Hemipilia amethystina, Rolfe, a species which 
flowered in the establishment of Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, in 
June, 1896, being exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
as a species of Pogonia, and gaining an Award of Merit. It was then 
recorded as Hemipilia amethystina (O.R., iv. p- 222); and soon afterwards 
(sip figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7521). This also flowered in an 
importation of Cypripedium Charlesworthii. It is a charming little plant, 
bearing a single spreading cordate leaf, prettily marbled with green and 
brown, at the ground level, and a short erect spike of Orchis-like flowers, 
the sepals and petals being light green and the lip purple. In June, 1906, 
a plant flowered in the collection of Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, 
East Sheen, and again received a Botanical Certificate from the R.H.S. 
(0.R., xiv. p. 243), and three years later it was also exhibited by Messrs. 
Sander & Sons (O.R., xviii. p.. 279). Phe gene> is nearly allied to 
Cynorchis, and contains about ten species, natives of India and China. 
Another handsome species is occasionally seen in cultivation, namely, 
Hemipilia calophylla, Par. & Rchb. f., a native of Moulmein, whose portrait 
appears at t. 6920 of the Botanical M agazine.—R.A.R. 
ZyGorETALUM PRAINIANUM.—At the R.H.S. meeting held on September 
8th last a striking Zygopetalum was exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons, 
@ Albans, for which the above name was suggested. It is said to be an 
Introduction of M. Forget, probably from some part of Peru, and most 
fesembles Z. Burkei, Rchb. f., in general character, differing, however, 
i having longer pseudobulbs and broader leaves, and more obscure green 
eceings on the petals. The lip is very similar in shape, and the colour 
White, with light purple lines on the ridges of the crest. The sepals end 
eee are dusky brown, and the petals similar, with obscure green markings 
neat the apex. The plant is now at Kew.—R.A.-R. 
