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Jongheana, a species previously known by only a few examples, and of 
Dendrobium spectabile, a remarkable New Guinea species which had been 
known to science for upwards of half a century. It received a First-class 
Certificate from the R.H.S. Dendrobium Ainsworthii also appeared as a 
wild hybrid among plants of the two parents introduced from Sikkim. 
Hybrids of the popular genera were again numerous, and Zygobatemannia 
Mastersii, a new generic cross, flowered with Messrs. Linden, while 
Angrecum Veitchii, for which Messrs. James Veitch & Sons received a 
First-class Certificate, added another genus to the list successfully operated 
by the hybridist. 
The concluding year of the nineteenth century produced interesting 
novelties in Cymbidium I’Ansonii, then thought to be a natural hybrid, the 
remarkable Trevoria chloris, Masdevallia deorsa, and a few others, and the 
usual crop of hybrids, among which the beautiful Cypripedium Maudiz 
has proved to be the most popular, while the parentage of the natural 
hybrids, Odontoglossum Wattianum, Cattleya resplendens, and Leelio- 
cattleya Gottiana was proved experimentally. The year closed with a very 
interesting event, namely, the discovery of the locality in which Swainson 
originally discovered the popular Cattleya labiata, which had been the 
subject of so much controversy. It is much too long to summarise, but the 
story may be found in extenso at pp. 362-365 of our eighth volume. 
(To be continued.) 
eiea| NOTES FROM KEW —Il. eee: 
PROMINENT feature of the Kew collection at the present time is a 
fine series of Cymbidiums, the majority being hybrids of C. insigne, 
but there are also plants of C. Schroederi, a native of Annam, which occurs 
with the species just mentioned, also a good plant of C. grandiflorum, and 
the rare C. chloranthum, Lindl. (figured at t. 4907 of the Botanical 
Magazine), a native of North Australia, though long supposed to be Indian. 
Among the hybrids of C. insigne may be mentioned over a dozen plants of 
C. Lawrenceanum, also known as C. Pauwelsii, a hybrid from C. insigne 
and C. Lowianum, with plants of C. Alexanderi and C. Gottianum, which 
are making a fine display. The introduction of Cymbidium insigne, some 
fourteen years ago, gave an immense impetus to hybridisation in the genus, 
and it is curious to reflect that its first hybrid flowered as recently as 
IgII, but since that time there has been a steady accession of fine horti- 
cultural plants, and there are many seedlings in existence which have not 
yet bloomed. The history of C. insigne and its hybrids may be found at 
pp. 101-104 of our last volume. 
