THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Paphiopedilum X prestoxense.— A hybrid raised in the colle 

 of C. Parker, Esq., Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, between P 

 phyllum 2 and P. Argus <? , and most resembling the latter. The 

 dorsal sepal is rather broader than in P. Argus, and lined with green on a 

 pale ground, the petals handsomely spotted with dark brown, and the lip 

 intermediate. 



L.elio-cattleya X Ida.— A pretty little hybrid raised in the collection 

 of the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Highbury, Birmingham, from 

 Lselia harpophylla $ and Cattleya Lawrenceana $ , which has just reached 

 the flowering stage. The flower sent most resembles the Lselia in shape, 

 but is enlarged to 4^ inches in diameter across the petals. The sepals and 

 petals are light-buff in colour, with a faint tinge of purplish towards the 

 margin. The lip is three-lobed, with the tube and side lobes light buff, 

 the throat nearly white, and the recurved obovate oblong and undulate 

 front lobe is of a pleasing light purple shade. It is smaller and lighter in 

 colour than L.-c. X highburiensis, the corresponding hybrid with L. cinna- 

 barina, but it is obviously undeveloped at present. 



Dexdrobium X Achilles.— This is a large and handsome hybrid 

 raised in the same collection as the preceding, from Dendrobium X primu- 

 linum J and D. X Ainsworthii Leechianum $ . It most resembles the latter 

 in general character, but the large maroon blotch is not so distinctly 

 feathered at the margin. The sepals and petals are satiny white, very 

 prettily tipped with light rose purple, a colour also found at the apex of the 

 lip. Except in the presence of the large maroon blotch there is a certain 

 resemblance to the natural hybrid D. X Pitcherianum, which is readily 

 accounted for by the fact that both are composed of D. primulinum one- 

 half, but the other half of D. X Pitcherianum, namely D. nobile, is replaced 

 in the present hybrid by one-fourth D. nobile and one-fourth D. aureum. 



Paphiopedilum X Dowlixgiaxum. — A very charming little hybrid 

 raised by W. M. Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare, from P. insigne 

 punctato-violaceum ? and P. X Godefroyae leucochilum $ , to which an 

 Award of Merit was given by the R.H.S. on February 25th last, under the 

 name of Cvpripedium X Dowlingianum (not Dowlerianum, as reported at 

 p. 91). A flower from another plant out of the same batch is now sent by 

 Mr. Appleton, who remarks that although smaller than the certificated 

 plant it shows the markings much more distinctly. It has the dwarf habit 

 and the general shape and ground colour of the pollen parent, with rather 

 narrower petals, and the dorsal sepal bears four rows of large purple 

 blotches, and some smaller spots on either side, while the spots on the 

 petals are small and numerous. It is a very promising little hybrid. 



