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Horticultural Society in November, 1886. A flower now received from the 
collection of Sir Frederick Wigan is apparently a variety of the same. It 
was raised by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, from Zygopetalum 
Gautieri ¢ and Colax jugosus ¢, but as the first-named is a variety of 
Z.maxillare, the two hybrids must rank as forms of one. The lip is 
almost wholly violet-purple, and the sepals and petals transveisely spotted 
with deep brown on a green ground. 
ZYGOCOLAX X AMESI2# is the latest addition to the group, having been 
exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held on 
December 19th last, by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, and received 
an Award of Merit. Its parents are recorded as Zygopetalum brachy- 
petalum ¢@ and Colax jugosus ¢. The sepals and petals are green, 
marked with brown blotches, which are confluent into longitudinal lines 
along the centre, and the lip smaller than in the preceding, and white with 
numerous narrow radiating purple veins. A flower of this has been sent 
from the collection of Sir Frederick Wigan. 
DENDROBIUM SPECTABILE. 
SOME time ago, it will be remembered, Messrs. F. Sander & Co. succeeded 
in introducing the above remarkable species in quantity, and since then its 
flowering has been awaited with great interest. At length the anticipated 
event took place, and a plant from the collection of Major Joicey, of 
Sunningdale Park, formed the principal object of interest at the Drill Hall 
Meeting on December 1gth last. It bore a raceme of four flowers, and was 
awarded a First-class Certificate. About the same time it flowered in 
several other collections, for we received living flowers from the collection 
of Dr. Hodgkinson, The Grange, Wilmslow, and of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., 
Bridge Hall, Bury. Mr. Wrigley remarks that the flowers have been 
slowly expanding for the last month. This raceme bore five flowers, and 
thus is about half developed as compared with wild specimens. It is also 
flowering in the collections of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford, and 
J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq., at Cheshunt, so that the species is evidently a 
winter blooming one. Its history was fully given in these pages in 1896 
(ante, iv., p. 356), when Sir Trevor Lawrence received a plant from a 
correspondent in the Solomon Islands. This plant had been four months 
en voute, and it was feared would not recover, but fortunately, by carefuy 
nursing, it survived and established itself, though the first growths were very 
small. Itisa strikingly distinct species, and its acuminate, undulate, and 
twisted sepals and petals cannot well be comparéd with anything in the 
genus. The lip is also very remarkable, having the front lobe much 
