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separate, it would have given eighteen flowers. It is a splendid example 
of good culture. 
The handsome “Gold Medal” group of Vand teres, from the collection 
of Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury Park, has been illustrated in 
the Gardeners’ Magazine (1900, p. 298) and in the Gardeners’ Chromcle 
(xxvii., p. 307, fig. 98). 
CYMBIDIUM x TY’ANSONI. 
A most interesting Cymbidium has flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low and 
Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, out of their importations from Upper Burma. 
Until it flowered, it passed as C. Lowianum, but when this event occurred 
some striking differences were observed, and on comparison with allied 
species I have little doubt that it is a hybrid between C. Lowianum and C. 
_ Tracyanum. It bears a general resemblance to the former, but the sepals 
are much broader, the dorsal measuring 11 lines across, and the lateral 10 
lines; the petals are also much broader, and all are distinctly lined with 
-purple-brown, though paler than in C. Tracyanum. The lip is correspond- 
ingly enlarged, being decidedly broader and more obtuse, though the 
markings are arranged as in C. Lowianum, but much lighter in colour, 
while the crests are also broader, tinged with pink, and the pubescence’ 
longer. The column also measures 5} lines broad, pubescent, tinged with 
pink, and spotted with crimson at the base. These differences are very 
striking when living flowers of the two are compared side by side, 
and are unmistakably modifications in the direction of C. Tracyanum, 
which also comes from the same region. It may be said that there are no 
red spots round the lip, but it is well known that certain characters of one 
particular parent are often missing in a hybrid from it. C. grandiflorum has 
been suggested as one parent, but that has also spots on the lip, and would 
fail to account for the lines in the sepals and petals, while C. giganteum 
would have reduced the size of the flower, and is otherwise different. This 
fine addition to the genus, which is dedicated to Mr. G. I’Anson, one of 
Messrs. Low’s foremen, was exhibited at the recent Temple Show, and 
received an Award of Merit. Mt 
A suggestion was thrown out some time ago that C. Tracyanum is a 
natural hybrid between C. grandiflorum and C. giganteum, which seems to 
me improbable, for the flowers are as large as in the former, the lip remark- 
ably similar to it, while its peculiar upright roots are not found in either of 
its supposed parents. It would be interesting to have these points cleared 
up by a few well-directed experiments. 
; R. A. R. 
