THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



nbined. The flowers show evic 

 a of the beauty of the distingu 



and P. Spicerianum are so effect b 



of excellent culture, and furnish s< 



group from which they were cut. These plants are likely to occupy an 



increasingly prominent place in our collections as time goes on. 



Three handsome flowers are sent from the collection of R. le Doux, 

 Esq., Marlfield, West Derby, Liverpool, by Mr. Davenport. One is a very- 

 pretty yellow form of P. insigne, in which the spots are paler than usual, 

 and those which extend into the white area clear light purple. The second 

 is a good, dark P. X Leeanum, and the third a very large and finely-shaped; 

 form closely resembling P. X L. perfectum. The plants are in four-inchi 

 pots, and bear three flowers each. 



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P. X Leeanum is unquestionably the most popular of winter-b 

 hybrids, and its characters are well shewn in the annexed figure, whi 

 produced from an excellent photograph sent by R. W. Rickards, E 

 Priory, Usk, and which was taken by Mr. H. Dunning, Usk. It 

 first hybrid from P. Spicerianum, and flowered for the first time i 

 only five years after that species was originally described, from wr 

 evident that Messrs. Veitch must have utilized the pollen of on 

 earliest flowers produced in this country. P. insigne Maulei was t 

 bearer. It was dedicated to W. Lee, Esq:, of Leatherhead. Sine 

 has been raised in several other collections, and its varieties 

 becoming very numerous. 



