few years ago (1890, vii., p- 459), the substance ot 
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Another interesting lot from the same collection contains a very pretty 
form of Odontoglossum X Adriane with white ground, and the sepals 
and petals well spotted with dark brown; and O. X A. Baxteri, a very 
large and handsome form, bearing numerous red-brown spots, which gained 
a First-class Certificate at the last meeting of the Manchester Orchid 
Society. ©. crispum Baxtere, which received an Award of Merit, has a 
very large irregular red-purple blotch below the middle of the sepals and 
petals, together with a few smaller ones,.and a rosy suffusion in the sepals. 
One called O. c. augusta, which also received an Award of Merit, has a 
group of small red-brown spots on the white petals, and rather larger 
confluent ones on the sepals, so that it is quite distinct from the O. c. 
augusta which received a First-class Certificate at the Temple Show in 1896 
(see pp. 192, 196 of our fourth volume). Other forms of O. crispum and 
O. x Andersonianum are also enclosed. 
A very dark form of the pretty little Odontoglossum Hunnewellianum 
is sent from the collection of Mrs. Briggs-Bury, Bank House, Accrington, 
in which the sepals are nearly suffused with dark brown, except a few 
yellow markings near the base, together with the upper half of the petals. 
A very brilliant form of Lelio-cattleya X highburyensis is sent from 
the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., of Teignmouth, in which the deep 
crimson petals and lip contrast strikingly with the buff sepals. 
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PHALZNOPSIS SANDERIANA AND ITS ALLIES. 
A pHoTOGRAPH of the inflorescence of Phalaenopsis Sanderiana is sent by 
Dr. A. W. Hoisholt, of Stockton, California, together with a beautifully 
dried flower, in which the original colour is well preserved. It is described 
as pinkish lilac, with rays of darker colour towards the margins of the 
petals, and the anterior halves of the lateral sepals and most of the lip 
white. Dr. Hoisholt alludes to the uncertainty expressed in the books as 
to whether the plant is a distinct local form or a natural hybrid between P. 
Aphrodite and P. Schilleriana, and thus a form:of P. x leucorrhoda. In 
order to settle the question, he has crossed the species together, both ways, 
and has now a plant of P. Aphrodite carrying two pods, and one of P. 
- Schilleriana carrying three pods, a little over three months old. We hope 
they will succeed, for they cannot fail to be interesting. Dr. Hoisholt 
further compares P. Sanderiana with its allies, and hopes that these 
notes will lead to further enquiry into its origin. This reminds 
us of a very interesting article on the distribution of the section 
Euphalznopsis in the Philippines, from the pen of Mr. C. Roebelen, the 
discoverer of P. Sanderiana, which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle a 
of which it may be interest- 
