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notched on each side near the front, the anterior part rather crisp, creamy- 

 white, stained with yellow towards the base, where there are three obscure keels; 

 the filiform spur is compressed, hairy, retuse and bilobed at the apex. The 



flowers of this elegant form ai-e 

 produced during mid-winter, 

 and the treatment recom- 

 mended for the .other kinds 

 suits the plant admirably.— 

 Garden hyhrid. 



YiQ.— Floral Mag., t. 426 ; 

 Gard. CJiron., 1867, p. 264, with 

 fig.; Id., N.S., xviii. p. 565, 

 f . 100. 



Syn. — Phajus irrirratus. 



P. IRRORATA PURPUREA, 



Biolfe. — A very pretty vatiety 

 of the foregoing hybrid, with 

 the sepals and petals white, 

 the lip dull rose colour, and 

 the throat yellow. It flowers 

 in March and April. — Garden 

 hyhrid. 



PHAIO-CALANTHE lEEOEATA. 



P. SEDENIANA, Bolfe.—A 

 most interesting hybrid be- 

 tween an evergreen Pliajux 

 and a deciduous species of GaloMtlie, the result of a cross between Phajus 

 grandifolius and Calanilie VeitcMi, raised in the nurseries of Messrs. J. 

 Veitch & Sons, and described by Mr. Rolfe, in the Gardeners' Chronicle, as 

 follows : — " The flowers are large with much of the general appearance of 

 Phajus, though the lip shows a distinct approach to that of the Calanthe, while 

 the bract also is very similar to that of the pollen parent. The segments are of 

 a pale delicate primrose tint, the basal portion flushed with pale rose, the lip 

 pale primrose, bright yellow at the base and along the three keels, each of the 

 three lobes conspicuously flushed with rose on their upper portions ; the side 

 lobes are large, and the front one very distinctly emarginate; it might bo 

 described as four-lobed with two large side and two smaller front lobes."- — 

 Garden hyhrid. 



Tia.—Veiteli's Man. Orch. PL, vi. p. 17. 

 SYTH.—rPJiajus Sedenianus. 



P. SEDENIANA ROSEA, iJo//e.— This is like the preceding, a hybrid between 

 Phajus grandifolius and Calanthe Veiichii, but resulted from the reverse cross, 

 the Calanthe being the seed-bearing parent. It was raised by Mr. W. Lambert, 

 gardener to John Eiley, Esq., of Haptou House, Lancashire. " It differs from 

 the original form in having the lip light rose colour, marbled with a som.ewhat 

 deeper shade, and in having a rosy -red line down the centre of each petal.'" — ' 

 Garden hyhrid. 



