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three-lobed. The sepals and petals are blush pink, distinctly darker on the 
margins, and the lip yellow, with numerous rosy purple nerves all over the 
disc, while the front lobe, and a very broad margin to the side lobes, are 
strongly suffused with rich rose purple, rather darker on the nerves. Thus 
the characters of the pollen parent are well developed in the lip, especially 
in the colour and the prominent nerves of the disc. The pollinia are of the 
usual intermediate character, but most like the pollen parent, as the 
additional ones are very small in the flower examined. It is a very 
promising addition to the group, and has probably not yet attained its full 
development. . 
EPIDENDRUM X_ RADICO-VITELLINUM. 
This is another very interesting hybrid raised by Mr. Seden in the 
establishment of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, from Epidendrum vitellinum 
and E. radicans, the latter being the pollen parent. The plant has slender, 
root-bearing stems, and thus resembles the pollen parent, except in its 
dwarfer habit and a slightly glaucous hue, in which the influence of the 
mother plant is seen. The flowers are borne on a slender erect stem about 
six inches long, and they measure 14 inches in their broadest diameter, 
but at present consist of three sepals and a lip only, the petals being totally 
suppressed. The colour is bright orange, tinged with scarlet on the margin 
of the obscurely trilobed lip, which latter organ bears three raised yellow 
keels on the disc, the two outer ones being rather short. The lip varies 
somewhat in shape and in the amount of adhesion to the column. The seed 
was sown in September, 1894, and the first flowers were produced in June, 
1897, the plants thus being under three years old. It has probably not yet 
attained its maximum development.—O’Brien in Gard. Chron., July roth, 
p. 16. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND 
ORCHID SOCIETY. 
THERE was a falling off in the number of exhibits at the Coal Exchange, 
Manchester, on August 26th, but thirty-four plants being submitted to the 
Committee, many of which were of high quality, and three First-class 
Certificates, eight Awards of Merit, and one Cultural Commendation were 
given. 
The President, William Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone 
(gr. Mr. Stevens), exhibited a very good Cattleya Lueddemanniana 
(speciosissima), blush pink in colour with two nearly white blotches in 
the throat (Award of Merit), C. Gaskelliana Nellie, a well-formed light 
