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much smaller and far more numerous. The petals are spotted at the base, — 
and shining brown near the apex. Some good forms of P. X Ashburtone 
are also sent. 
Mr. Keeling also writes that he has several plants of Lelia Jongheana 
showing flowers, which seems to confirm the record that it is a winter- 
blooming species. 
It is remarkable how greatly many hybrid Orchids improve when the 
plants become strong. Messrs. James Veitch & Sons send a magnificent 
five-flowered inflorescence of Lzelio-cattleya xX Pallas in proof of this, 
remarking that they have had several others with five flowers during the 
past autumn. It is the result of crossing Lelia crispa with the pollen of 
Cattleya Dowiana, and shows abundant evidence of its descent. The sepals 
and petals are broader than in the Lelia parent, but retain much of its 
crispness, though the colour is, curiously enough, rose-pink. The lip also 
much resembles the same parent in shape, except in being broader, but it 
has the characteristic veining in the throat, and the intense purple-crimson 
velvety front lobe of the pollen parent. It originally appeared ten years 
ago, and is certainly a great beauty. 
With reference to the “‘ curious seedling’’ noted at page 357 of our last 
issue, Mr. Roses writes that he supposes it to have been derived from a stray 
seed which had lodged there, as the seed pod at the base of which it is 
growing is green, and consequently has not yet opened. 
Flowers of Odontoglossum crispum Meteor, to which an Award of 
Merit was given by the Manchester Orchid Society in November last, are 
sent from the collection of William Thompson. Esq., of Stone. It is of 
excellent form, and heavily suffused with purple at the back of the segments, 
but only pinkish in front. A handsomely spotted hybrid called O. x 
Ruckerianum Thompson’s var. is also enclosed. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
(In the present issue we have made a slight alteration in the method of citing the 
works from which the following figures are drawn, by omitting the minor dates and giving 
the references in what may termed their permanent form, which we think will be more 
useful in the end. 
ARACHNANTHE CATHCARTHU, Benth.—Lindenia, t. 676. 
CATTLEYA X MaGciE RapHaEL.—Gard. Mag., 1899, pp. 796, 797, with 
fig. ; Journ. of Hort., 1899, Xxxix. p- 515, fig. 91; Gard. Chron., 1899, 
xxvi. p. 482, fig. 158. 
CoMPARETTIA SPECIOSA, Rchb. f£—Lindenia, t. 673. 
