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the apex of the dorsal sepal, and the green tubercle in the centre of the 
staminode, besides flowering at the same time. The ground colour is 
white, with lines of minute dots on the lower part of the dorsal sepal, a 
purple reticulation on the upper side of the basal half of the petals, and a 
trace of similar reticulation on the front of the lip. It is very beautiful, 
and one of the best of the niveum hybrids. 
Flowers of the richly-coloured Dendrobium xX Leeanum atropurpureum, 
2 which received an Award of Merit from the R. H. S. on October 23rd, are 
also sent from the same collection, and a three-flowered inflorescence of 
Cattleya labiata, in which the sepals are broad and petal-like, and the 
inner halves of the lateral pair coloured like the disc of the lip. It is a 
striking form, and Mr. Young states that this is the third or fourth time 
that the flowers have presented this abnormal character. 
Mr. Young also states that a spike of Dendrobium spectabile in the | 
collection is bearing fifteen flowers, which is probably a record up to the 
present. 
A splendid plant of Cattleya Bowringina has just flowered in Messrs. 
James Veitch and Sons’ Nursery, at Langley, Slough. Mr. Seden writes 
that it has three heads of bloom, which bear respectively 20, 27, and 33 
blooms, and presents a grand sight. 
A flower of the pretty, clear yellow, and unspotted Odontoglossum 
_ ¢rispum aureum is sent by M. Florent Claes, of Brussels. It has the typical 
O. crispum shape, crest and column wings, and should develop into a 
- good thing, for the plant is at present small. It has flowered out of M. 
Claes’ last importation. 
A photograph of a remarkable plant of Dendrobium thyrsiflorum is 
sent by H. Rider Haggard, Esq., Ditchingham House, Norfolk. The 
plant bloomed in the spring, carrying eleven racemes, and again in 
September, when, as the photograph shows, it gave eight racemes. This 
double flowering is remarkable, and would render the plant valuable if it 
proved to be a constant character. 
A flower of Paphiopedilum X miniatum is sent from the collection ot 
Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool. The plant was purchased 
from Messrs. John Cowan & Co., of Gateacre, as ‘‘Curtisii X insigne 
Chantinii,’” whose characters it well combines. The specific name has 
been used for two different hybrids, but as the one from P. Spicerianum X 
Fairrieanum is P. x Niobe, it is free for the present one. A good flower of P. 
X Ashburton Barteti is also sent from the same collection for comparison. 
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