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FLOWER of Lzliocattleya Barbara, a very pretty hybrid, said to have 
been derived from Cattleya Gaskelliana x Lelia Iona, is sent from 
the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Evershot, Dorset. It has well-shaped, 
lilac sepals and petals, and the front of the lip purple with a yellow throat. 
It was unnamed when a flower reached us five years ago (O.R., xix. p. 29), 
but has since been called Lc. Barbara, after one of Mr. Clark’s nieces. 
Several other seedlings from the cross have flowered, and have varied 
considerably. The one now sent has hardly any sheath, while another has 
as good a sheath as C. Gaskelliana, though the habit is dwarfer. A third 
is more like the Lelia parent, but the leaves more tinged with red, and 
there is a crimson streak in the middle of. the petals. The first that 
flowered was more like the Cattleya parent with the size of the Lelia. A 
fine form of Odontoglossum luteopurpureum is also sent, which was 
purchased as O. Harryanum ; whether imported is not stated, but the two 
species are known to grow together. 
Three interesting flowers are sent from the collection of Philip Smith, 
Esq., Haddon House, Ashton-on-Mersey, by Mr. E. W. Thompson. 
Odontioda Brewii var. Nigger, has almost black-purple sepals and petals, 
and the lip dark maroon, with an orange-coloured crest. It received a 
First-class Certificate at Manchester on April 27th. Odontioda Red-Cross 
var. The Captain, which obtained a similar award on May rith, is a 
beautiful scarlet-red flower, with paler margins to the sepals and petals, 
and a yellowish white apex to the lip. A seedling Odontoglossum is also 
sent, which, from its colour and markings, is clearly a seedling of O. 
crispum Black Prince. It has produced a two-flowered scape from a tiny 
bulb, and should develop into a good thing. The flowers are heavily 
blotched with blackish purple, and the detals of the lip and wings of the 
column show the influence of O. Hunnewellianum, which is evidently in 
some way concerned in the parentage of the plant known as O. crispum 
Black Prince. 
Odontoglossum crispum Phyllis is a beautiful seedling, derived from a 
cross between two blotched crispums, of which flowers have been received 
from the collection of A. R. Crossley, Esq., Falling Royd, Hebden Bridge, 
Yorks. The flowers are of good shape, with broad, somewhat acute, rosy 
lilac sepals and petals, each bearing a very large claret-brown blotch. The 
lip is broad, with a prettily crisped white margin, a deep yellow crest, and 
large chestnut brown blotches. Mr. Crossley remarks that the spike carried 
ten flowers. 
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