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which flowered in the collection of C. W. Fincken, Esq., Hoyland Hall, 
Barnsley, in December, 1892, having been obtained as an unflowered plant 
from the Liverpool Horticultural Company. It appeared in an importation 
of L. anceps, and at present is unique. It shows such an unmistakable com- 
bination of the characters of L. albida and a white L. anceps that I enter- 
tain no doubt whatever as to its origin. It was described and figured at 
page 9 of the last volume, where full details are given. 
2. L. x GouLpiana, Rchb. f.—A richly coloured and very beautiful 
plant which appeared in 1887, both with Messrs. Siebrecht and Wadley, of 
New York, and Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans. Reichenbach 
remarked that if it was a hybrid one might think of L. autumnalis and L. 
anceps as the probable parents. He also suggested that it might be a 
species, or a variety of L. x Crawshayana. In January, 1890, a plant 
flowered in the collection of H. W. Nixon, Esq., of Leek, in a clump of 
imported white L. anceps, and in the following December another in the 
collection of M. Jewell, Esq., of Bexley, which was at once thought to bea 
hybrid between L. anceps and L. autumnalis. The origin of this plant has 
been the subject of some dispute, but after consideration of all the facts I 
believe that the combination of characters of L. autumnalis and L. anceps, 
which it undoubtedly presents, proves it to be a natural hybrid between 
them. It also was figured on the same page of this work as L. x Finckeniana. 
3. L. x CrawsHayana, Rchb: f.—This beautiful plant appeared as long 
ago as 1883, and, if not the oldest of the group, was, at least, the first sus- 
pected to be of hybrid origin. It flowered in the collection of De Barri 
Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. After pointing out certain resem- 
blances to L. albida, autumnalis and anceps, Reichenbach observed, “I 
thought of a hybrid between L. anceps and L, autumnalis, but its possessor 
prefers to think of L. albida Stobartiana and L. anceps.’”’ One or two plants 
afterwards appeared with Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, and one 
with Sir Charles Strickland, Bart., Hildenley, Malton, which are evidently 
of similar origin, though not quite so fine as the original one. The parent- 
age of this hybrid has also been the subject of dispute, but both Mr. Craw- 
shay and myself are now agreed that it is derived from L. albida and L. 
autumnalis, whose characters it combines, both in the flowers and vegetative 
organs. The original piece was found with L. albida, and the one last 
mentioned with L. autumnalis. 
4. L. X LEUCOPTERA, Rolfe.—This appeared with M. A. A. Peeters, of 
Saint Gilles, Brussels, in 1884, and was described by Reichenbach as L. x 
Crawshayana var. leucoptera. But it presents so many differences from the 
original type that I have long been convinced of its distinct origin, and 
accordingly separated it. I at first thought it was derived from L. autumnalis 
and L. albida, which, in turn, helped to obscure the real origin of the two 
preceding hybrids. But on carefully going over the ground again, and 
