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charming albino D. crassinode album, D. X euosmum leucopterum, D. X 

 Pitcherianum Rolfese, D. X P. roseum, D. X Rubens, and its varieties 

 magnificum, Socius (richer than nobile nobilius in colour), and album, 

 D. X micans, D. X Kenneth, D. X Astrea, and D. X melanodiscus Luna. 

 Lastly may be mentioned a charming little plant recorded and certificated a 

 few years ago as D. nobile Sanderae, which proves to be a form of D. X 

 Pitcherianum. 



An interesting and beautiful series is sent from the collection of Joseph 

 Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno (gr. Mr. Axtell), including the rare 

 and curious little Dendrobium linguiforme, an Australian species with very 

 stout oblong fleshy leaves, and racemes of white flowers with narrow 

 segments ; a spike of Arpophyllum giganteum, with its numerous small rose- 

 coloured flowers; the graceful Brassia longissima ; Lycaste gigantea, a 

 rather rare Orchid in cultivation, which has been in flower a month before 

 being sent ; a fine raceme of Odontoglossum apterum, more generally 

 cultivated under its later name of O. nebulosum ; three good forms of 

 O. luteopurpureum ; a fine unspotted form of O. crispum ; a remarkable 

 flower of Dendrobium nobile in which the dorsal sepal is petal-like in 

 character, nearly i^ inches broad, and the whole flower very dark in colour; 

 and, lastly, three pretty forms of Masdevallia coccinea (Harryana). 



An inflorescence of Brassia ocanensis is sent from the collection of 

 Frau Ida Brandt, of Zurich. It was received two years ago among plants 

 of Ada aurantiaca, which out of flower it much resembles, except that the 

 leaves are larger, broader, and lighter in colour. A light form of Odonto- 

 glossum X Adrianse and a form of O. X Andersonianum with rather 

 narrow segments are also sent, and both these were purchased as O. 

 crispum, which affords some idea of how comparatively common natural 

 hybrids are among importations of O. crispum. 



Some beautiful Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of 

 W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, by Mr. Stevens, and among 

 them a flower of the handsome O. crispum Robert McVittie, to which a 

 First-class Certificate was given at the R.H.S. meeting on April 22nd. It 

 is a fine form with broad segments, the petals somewhat toothed, and the 

 blotches on both sepals and petals very large, more or less confluent about 

 the centre, and rich red-purple in colour, while the lip also bears one very 

 large blotch and several smaller ones. It is interesting to find that the 

 curious form of O. crispum having the inner halves of the lateral sepals 

 yellow, and bearing crest-like appendages like those of the lip, which was 

 noted at page 199 of our eighth volume, remains constant, for the 

 inflorescence now bears twelve flowers, all being alike in this respect. 

 Other forms sent are the pretty little O. Hunnewellianum, O. 

 luteopurpureum, two forms of O. triumphans, one having a large amount 



