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Some fine Cypripediums also come from the same collection. C. insigne 
Roeblingiana is a handsome variety with the shape and colour almost of 
C. i. Mooreanum, but the spots on the dorsal sepal are small and very 
numerous, only measuring half-an-inch in diameter. C. xX Leeanum 
Clinkaberryanum has the dorsal sepal 23 inches broad, with numerous 
small spots on the disc, which are arranged somewhat in lines. C. X 
Sallieri Roeblingianum is a very richly coloured and handsome form, the 
dorsal sepal having the disc marbled with warm brown on a yellow ground, 
and the margin white. The petals and lips are also warm shining brown. 
E. A. Beveis, Esq., Oxford, sends a fine inflorescence of Cattleya 
aurantiaca with ten rich orange-coloured flowers, spotted and streaked with 
crimson on the lip, and quite perfect. It was obtained at one of Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris’s sales about seven years ago with some pieces of C. 
Skinneri, and has now fifteen bulbs and five leads, all of them flowering, as 
it does regularly every year. E. H. Woodall, Esq., Scarborough, also 
writes that the flowers open well with him each year. H. J. Ross, Esq., 
Florence, also alludes:to the note at page 83, stating that he intends to use 
the pollen for fertilising C. Skinneri, in the hope of obtaining the beautiful 
hybrid C. X guatemalensis. The cross might be attempted both ways. 
A singular flower of Cypripedium X Thibautianum is sent by H. J. Ross, 
Esq., of Florence, in which the lip is completely wanting, though in other 
respects it is quite normal. The peculiarity seems to have become fixed, 
for last year the plant bore two flowers which had precisely the same 
character. There are two buds yet to open, and to all appearances will 
prove identical. 
A flower of the interesting and very pretty generic hybrid Epilelia x 
Hardyana has been received from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. The sepals 
and petals are light blush, and the front lobe of the lip brilliant rose-purple- 
It was described at page 364 of our last volume. Other experiments with 
Epidendrum ciliare should be made. 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., sends us further notes on his Pipe-thermometers, 
which were described at page 87, including the temperatures for the month 
of February. He considers that the system has been fairly tested during 
the late severe weather, and that never, in all his experience, have his men 
had so little difficulty in keeping up the proper temperatures, which he 
attributes to their always being able to see the exact temperature of the 
water in the pipes, and stoke the fires accordingly. In the Dendrobium 
house an additional thermometer was hung up at about 83 ft. from the 
floor, where the Dendrobiums were hanging at rest, and this invariably 
