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purple stain on the sepals and a purple area with a few spots at the basal 
angles of the lip. It is from a recently imported plant. A smaller form 
has a few darker purple streaks on the front of the lip. 
Flowers of Odontoglossum x Coradinei Roeblingianum and O. xX 
mulus are sent from the collection of F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton- 
on-Mersey. The former is a very pretty form, in which the shape and 
markings of O. Lindleyanum are very prominent. 
Three flowers of the beautiful Dendrobium xX Apollo are sent by Mr. 
James Cypher, of Cheltenham, showing how great is the improvement being 
effected in this group. It received a First-class Certificate from the Royal 
Horticultural Society in 1896, and was described at page 102 of our third 
volume. Some very fine flowers of D. Wardianum and D. nobile elegans 
are also sent, one of the former measuring nearly 43 inches across the petals. 
Two flowers of the exceptionally fine Odontoglossum  Pescatorei, 
Slichachan var., to which an Award of Merit-was given on April 13th, are 
sent from the collection of John Wilson Potter, Esq., Slichachan, Park 
Hill Road, Croydon. The finest is 3} inches across the petals, which latter 
are 7-8th inch broad. The sepals are correspondingly broad, flushed with 
light rosy purple, and the petals and lip nearly white. The disc is deep 
yellow, with a few red-purple markings at the base. 
A very pretty form of Odontoglossum x Andersonianum, with yellow 
ground, heavily spotted with red-brown, comes from the collection of W. 
r. Burkinshaw, Esq., of Hessle, near Hill; also a white variety with 
very numerous small spots. The former comes nearest to the variety O. 
X deltoglossum. A flower of the handsome Dendrobium atroviolacum is 
also enclosed, one of fifteen borne by the same plant ; also Warscewiczella 
discolor, from a plant imported with W. Wendlandii and Pescatorea cerina. 
Flowers of the handsome Dendrobium x Clio are sent from the 
collection of F, Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey. It was. 
derived from D. x splendidissimum grandiflorum ? and D. Wardianum ¢, 
and received a First-class Certificate last year (supra, 1V., p. 156). It well 
combines the characters of its two handsome parents. 
A raceme of two curious flowers of Cattleya Lawrenceana are sent from 
the collection of G. O. Sloper, Esq., Westrop House, Highworth, in which 
the petals are absent. One flower, however, has a small petaloid body at 
the apex of the column, which may be traced down the column by a purple 
line down to the point where the petal should be inserted, and thus clearly 
represents one of the missing organs. It is a curious freak. 
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