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may be compared to a form of P. tonsum with the dorsal sepal rather 
reduced in size, more distinctly ovate, and more distinctly lined with green, 
and the petals distinctly spotted all over, and bearing a number of marginal 
cilia much like those of the pollen parent. The lip also approaches P. 
Argus in shape and colour. Thus it is fairly intermediate between the two 
parents, and, like them, rather light in colour. The seed was sown in 
January, 1895. Iphis was a Cretan girl, metamorphosed into a youth. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X ZALMOXIS. 
This also was raised by Mr. Young, who gives its history as raised from 
P. X Williamsianum ¢ and P. xX vexillarium superbum @, the seed having 
been sown in December, 1892. If the pollen parent had been recorded as 
P. venustum it would have been much easier to understand. Of course, 
P. X Williamsianum (which Mr. Young also sends) is half venustum, and 
a second cross with the same would have raised the amount in the hybrid, 
both in flower and leaf. Compared with the seed parent, the dorsal sepal is 
proportionately broader and less acute, the petals broader and shorter, 
coloured like venustum at the apex, and bearing several largish brown spots 
near the base, and the lip shorter and more distinctly veined. There is no 
obvious resemblance to P X vexillarium, or to its parents, P. Fairrieanum 
and P. barbatum, yet Mr. Young expresses himself as confident of the 
parentage as stated, and does not see the possibility of its being a stray 
seedling. He has, however, three other plants, which may throw more 
light on the matter. In any case, it is a decided improvement on the seed 
parent, and, being much larger than P. venustum, may be a considered as a 
decided acquisition. 
CATTLEYA X GOOSSENSIANA. : 
A handsome hybrid raised by Mr. A. A. Peeters, of St. Gilles, Brussels, 
from C. Schilleriana @ and C. Gaskelliana ¢, and which may be briefly 
described as bearing a great resemblance to the natural hybrid C. Xx Whitel, 
whose parents are C. Schilleriana and C. Warneri. The seed is said to 
have been sown in June, 1896, and the plant flowered in October last, so 
that if the record is correct it probably constitutes a record for quickness of 
flowering in the genus. It is figured in a recent issue of Cogniaux and 
Gossens Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées. It is a very interesting 
and beautiful plant. 
ERRATA. 
L&LIo-caTrLeya x CRANSTOUNE.—This is the correct spelling of the 
name given at page 19 of our January issue as L.-c. X Cranstone. A 
Similar mistake was made in the spelling of the personal name. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X Quirinus.—P, X Quinirius (page 72) should be P. 
X Quirinus, 
