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Manchester Orchid Society on April 13th, are sent from the collection o1 
Tom Worsley, Esq., Haslingden, by Mr. T. Wood. Miltonia vexillaria 
var. Worsleyi (F.-c. C.) is a large and very richly-coloured variety. 
Odontoglossum General-Townshend (F.-c. C.) is a well-shaped flower, with 
light purple blotches on a white ground. O. promerens Carter Place var. 
(A.M.), has the flowers well suffused with purple, leaving the apex and 
margins of the petals white. 
Several beautiful flowers are sent from the collection of R. Ashworth, 
Esq., Ashlands, Newchurch, by Mr. W. Gilden. Odontoglossum cordatum 
aureum is the yellow form of the species, the usual brown markings having 
completely vanished. O. Pescatorei xanthotes is a beautiful white, having 
a deep yellow crest, and a little paler suffusion at the front and sides. O. 
crispum Black Dragon (crispum Black Prince X Pluto) is most like the 
seed parent, having a great blackish purple blotch on the petals, and the 
greater part of the sepals of the latter colour, while the front part of the lip 
is white. O. c. heliotropium X c. Black Prince has a light rosy ground, 
and pretty undulating shape, most like the former generally. A flower of 
O.c. Black Prince is also sent for comparison, and shows some unmistak- 
able traces of O. Adraine influence. O. Herculaneum is a very fine thing, 
having very broad white sepals and petals, the former with a great red- 
brown blotch above the middle. The flower is of great substance, and has 
been out for six weeks. O. Jasper var. Masereelianum is regularly spotted 
with claret on a light rosy ground, and is a very charming form. O. James 
O’Brien has a yellow ground colour, and solid red-brown blotches on the 
sepals and lip. Odontioda Zenobia is a reddish-claret flower of good shape, 
with the apex of the lip white and some red markings near the apex. Two 
good forms of O. crispum are also sent, with Cochlioda vulcanica and two 
brilliant orange-scarlet forms of Sophronitis grandiflora. They form a 
very charming series, and afford evidence of excellent culture. 
A promising seedling Cypripedium has been sent from the 
collection of J. Crombleholine, Esq., Clayton-le-Moors. Mr. Cromble- 
holme remarks that it is a cross between C. aureum and C. Lathamianum, 
and has been named C. Louvanii. The flower has been sent to be painted, 
and was somewhat withered, but the prevailing colour seems to be light 
greenish yellow, and the shape good. 
A fine plant of Odontoglossum platychilum is blooming in the Kew 
collection, bearing numerous spikes, three of which are three-flowered. 
The species was long known from the single plant in the collection of the 
late R. I. Measures, Esq., Camberwell, but at length an importation was 
obtained, and plants are often seen, though seldom in very vigorous 
CQndition. It is a native of Central America, 
