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is lighter in colour, and the flower is much more fragrant. A good light 
Cattleya Schreederee and two forms of Lelia purpurata are also enclosed, 
one being the variety praetexta, characterised by having a broad white area 
in front of the lip. 
Two very fine forms of Leelio-cattleya x Schilleriana are sent from the 
collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, one having 
the sepals and petals tinged with light blush, and the lip white except the 
deep purple front lobe; the other having white flowers with a very broad 
purple band at the apex of the side lobes, and some purple lines extending 
to the base of the disc. At the apex of the deep purple front lobe is a white 
area, as in some forms of the Lelia purpurata parent, whose influence is 
very marked, though in the strongly three-lobed lip they resemble Cattleya 
intermedia, the other parent. 
A very curious flower of Cattleya Mossie comes from the collection 
of W. H. Scott, Esq., St. Oswin’s, Tynemouth, in which the dorsal 
sepal is completely united down the centre to the back of the column, 
and the sides reflexed, forming a double wing, with a smaller additional 
wing on either side from the line of junction. The plant on which it 
occurs is a fine form, with a rich orange zone right across the lip. 
A remarkable flower of Cattleya intermedia is sent from the collection 
of E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. It consists of two 
sepals, placed laterally, and two lips at right angles to them, opposite, 
and one within the other, and a short, straight, laterally dilated column. 
The supernumary lip, which enfolds the normal one, is apparently composed 
of the two united petals, with possibly the addition of the anther, which 
is absent, and the dorsal sepal is also absent. It is probably an accidental 
production. 
A flower of the handsome Odontoglossum sceptrum aureum is sent 
from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone. The 
ground colour is light yellow, and the markings very light brown; the 
much-toothed petals being very handsomely spotted, and the sepals almost 
suffused with the latter colour. O. crispum Annie is a fine form, the centre 
of the sepals and petals being tinged with light rosy purple, and blotched 
with deep red-purple, and the lip and base of the petals bearing also a 
number of small spots. Both received awards at Manchester and the 
Temple Show. A very fine O. luteopurpureum hystrix, also enclosed, 
measures 44 inches across the petals. 
