somewhat peculiar conditions in a wild state. 
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A beautiful flower of Sophrocattleya x Hardyana is sent from the 
collection of Fred. Hardy, Esq.,, Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, by 
Mr. Stafford. It combines well the characters of its parents, Sophronitis 
grandiflora @ and Cattleya Aclandie ¢, but differs somewhat from the 
form figured at page 209 of our last volume, inasmuch as the C. Aclandiz 
character is more developed in the lip, and there are some spots on the 
iat sepals and petals. 
A pretty little hybrid from Masdevallia Veitchiana ¢ and M. Wageneriana 
3 has just bloomed in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, 
Dorking, of which we have received a flower. It has the general shape 
_of-the latter, but is larger, and the segments are longer, while the colour 
is orange-buff, with a trace of the characteristic iridescent hairs of 
M. Veitchiana. 
MASDEVALLIA DEORSA. 
‘Tuis remarkable species has hitherto been known by a few plants which 
were introduced from Columbia in 1894, by Consul F. C. Lehmann, and 
which were said to have the anomalous. character of growing head down- 
wards, like Cattleya citrina—hence the name. One of them passed into 
the collection at the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, and another into 
that of Sir Trevor Lawrence, and the former has now produced a flower, 
which was sent by Mr. F. W. Moore to the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
meeting on July 17th, and gained an Award of Merit. This flower shows 
that it belongs to the Coriacea group, though it differs from most others 
_ in having a descending scape, and the lateral sepals are not united into a 
‘common limb as in so many of the larger flowered species of the group, 
with which it can best be compared. The perianth tube is short and 
broad, the dorsal sepal three-quarters of an inch long, and the lateral 
sepals about twice as long, each terminating in a long, rather 
slender tail. The colour is light buff yellow, much blotched with purple- | 
brown, especially at the back and towards the base of the lateral 
sepals. The petals are light-greenish yellow, and the lip papillose in front, 
and deep purple, but somewhat mottled with yellow behind. The leaves 
are ten to thirteen inches long, coriaceous, and rather narrow, and they © 
invariably maintain their downward direction. It is an interesting addition 
to the group, and its anomalous habit would suggest that it grows under — 
R, A, ROLFE, 
