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have had a marked influence on the corresponding organs of the hybrid. 

 Their colour is bright rose-purple, and the lip whitish with a very deep 

 purple apex. 



Another very fine Lselio-cattleya is sent from the same collection, which 

 has the record of being derived from Lselio-cattleya X Gottoiana and 

 Laslia tenebrosa, but Mr. Young remarks that he sees no evidence of the 

 double influence of the latter. Nor do we. Indeed the increased breadth 

 of the segments, the shape of the pollinia, and the presence of a pair of light 

 yellow eye-like blotches in the throat, suggest a cross between the first- 

 named and Cattleya Warscewiczii. We hope to see the matter 

 cleared up. 



A flower of the handsome Paphiopedilum X Mabelise var. Corona, to 

 which a First-class Certificate was awarded by the Manchester Orchid 

 Society on September nth, is sent from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, 

 Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, by Mr. Rogers. It is indeed a superb form, in 

 which the characters of P. superbiens and P. Rothschildianum are 

 combined in the most effective way. The handsomely spotted petals 

 measure an inch across at the broadest part. 



A two-flowered infloresence of another fine Paphiopedilum is also sent 

 from the same collection. It is said to be an unnamed seedling, and, 

 unless it is another form of P. X Mabelias, we think it may be a form of the 

 one known as A. de Lairesse (P. Curtisii X Rothschildianum). It chiefly 

 differs from the preceding in having the dorsal sepal rather more closely 

 lined, and the petals rather narrower, more closely undulate, and the spots 

 smaller and more numerous. The hybrids of this group are very beautiful. 



A third flower sent is Paphiopedilum X triumphans, in which the 

 characters of P. X nitens Hyeanum and P. X cenanthum superbum are 

 combined. It is one of the best of its group, being excellent in form, very 

 richly coloured, and of good constitution. 



An interesting and beautiful series showing the Orchids in flower at the 

 present season is sent from the collection of E. J. Lovell, Esq., Oakhurst, 

 Oxted, Surrey, by Mr. Jones. They include examples of Cattleya 

 Bowringiana, C. Loddigesii, a good C. Dowiana chrysotoxa having the lip 

 regularly veined throughout with deep buff yellow and purple, and the 

 sepals and petals light yellow throughout with only a trace of purple 

 marbling, the fine old Oncidium tigrinum, a graceful inflorescence of 

 O. flexuosum with numerous yellow flowers, a good O. Forbesii, and 

 a far larger example of O. Forbesii superbum, the fine old Zygopetalum 

 intermedium, Odontoglossum crispum, a good dark Paphiopedilum X 

 Allanianum, said to be the reverse cross of the original form, P. X 

 polystigmaticum, and the distinct little P. venustum, the whole forming a 

 very pretty little group. 



