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volume, and it may be added that the discovery led to a good deal of 
controversy. Cynorchis purpurascens soon proved to be a good garden 
plant, being easily grown and very floriferous, while its bright purple 
flowers are very attractive. According to M. Warpur, it grows at an 
elevation of ro00 to 2000 feet, on the prostrate trunks of a Pandanus, and 
sometimes in tufts of the bird-nest fern, Asplenium nidus. It was figured 
at page 361 of our fourteenth volume. 
A year later three other interesting Madagascar plants flowered, namely, 
Cymbidium rhodochilum, Cynorchis villosa, and Bulbophyllum Hamelinii. 
The Cymbidium is one of the most remarkable species in the genus, its 
large red lip contrasting strongly with the green and_black-spotted 
segments, but it proved to be a very intractable subject, and we believe 
that all the few plants introduced by M. Warpur died after flowering. It 
is said to grow at 1800 to 2100 elevation, always in masses of Platycerium 
which are found on the branches of high trees near the rivers and on the 
higher slopes of the forest, a peculiarity that should be borne in mind when 
itis again introduced. The appearance of female flowers on the unique 
plant of Catasetum quadridens at Kew, and of Chondrobollea Froebelianas 
a natural hybrid between Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii and Bollea ccelestis, 
with M. Otto Froebel, at Zurich, were also interesting events of the year. 
Hybrids of the popular genera were appearing in_ ever-increasing 
numbers, and the feature of the Temple Show in 1902 was the appearance 
of a batch of four seedling Odontoglossums, raised by M. Ch. Vuylsteke 
from O. Pescatorei and O. crispum, which proved to be forms of the earlier 
O. armainvillierense. Three other hybrid Odontoglossums were also 
recorded. Two interesting generic hybrids also appeared, in Leptolelia 
Veitchii and Zygonisia Rolfeana, and we find records of hybrids from 
Lelia superbiens in L. Nemesis and Léeeliocattleyaa Cholletiana, of 
Dendrobium Hunteri, the first hybrid from D. Brymerianum, and of 
Leliocattleya Ira, the first from Lelia longipes. 
The following year was not marked by any particularly outstanding 
event, though the flowering at Kew of three species of the Chilian genus 
Chlorza, introduced by Mr. Elwes, was interesting. Here also flowered a 
plant of the curious saprophyte, Didymoplexis pallens, and Cynorchis 
kewensis, a hybrid from C. purpurascens (previously mentioned), and C. 
Lowiana. And there were additions among Odontoglossums and the 
various popular genera. 
The year 1904 witnessed some interesting developments, especially 
the appearance of Odontioda Vuylstekez, the first hybrid of Cochlioda 
Neetzliana, which made such a sensation at the Temple Show, and was 
awarded both a First-class Certificate and a Lindley Medal. It was 
figured, together with its parents, at page 209 of our twelfth volume. Four 
