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interest is attached to this Cypripede from the fact that all the numerous 

 specimens now growing in Orchid collections have been derived from two 

 plants ; the botanical history ot the species is, however, obscured by the 

 uncertainty attending the origin of one of the two — the first introduced, 

 which was received by Messrs. Rollisson, it is said, either from Java or 

 Assam ; this plant was sold to Consul Schiller, of Hamburg, in 1855, 

 whence it afterwards became distributed, by division, among European 

 collections. The second plant appeared among an importation of C. bar- 

 batum, collected for us in 1857 by Thomas Lobb, on Mount Ophir, near tht 

 southern extremity of the Malayan Peninsula. The probability is verj 

 great that Messrs. Rollisson's plant did not come from either of the localities 

 assigned to it, but from Mount Ophir, an hypothesis supported by the cir- 

 cumstances that no difference has been observed between the progenies of 

 the two plants. Although originally found mixed with C. barbatum, its 

 nearest affinities are with C. Curtisii and C. ciliolare." This evidence seems 

 definite enough, but I have not heard of its re-introduction, though I know 

 it has been searched for with this object in the Mt. Ophir district. Some- 

 thing remains to be cleared up. 



THE HYBRIDIST. 



L.elio-cattleya X Hodgkixsox.e.— A very handsome hybrid raised in 

 the collection of Dr. Hodgkinson, The Grange, Wilmslow, it is believed 

 from Laelia harpophylla $ and Cattleya Mossiae .3 . The first-named 

 species was crossed with C. Mossiie, C. Trianae, and Laelia tenebrosa, the 

 records of crossing and sowing of the seeds being, as usual, carefully kept, 

 but this seedling came up on another basket, where it was probably blown 

 accidentally. The pollinia are those of Ladio-cattleya, and the characters 

 of the hybrid suggest C. Mossiae rather than C. Trianae as the pollen 

 parent. The gracefully recurved sepals and petals, the details of the lip, 

 the time of flowering, and the general resemblance of L.-c. X Hippolyta 

 (L. cinnabarina x C. Mossiae) all point in this direction. We hope it will 

 be possible to settle the question finally when other seedlings flower. The 

 plant created rather a sensation when exhibited at a meeting of the 

 Manchester Orchid Society, on July 5th, and was awarded a First-class 

 Certificate. It is dedicated to Mrs. Hodgkinson. The flower sent is very 

 beautiful, the sepals and petals gracefully recurving, with an expanse of 

 5i inches. The colour is a beautiful Indian yellow or flame-colour, and 

 the lip finely shaped, the front lobe very undulate, and of the richest velvety 

 crimson, with a buff margin, and the side lobes Indian yellow, slightly 

 veined, with the disc deep bright yellow. 



