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de Mayo, or May flower of the Mexicans. The species was discovered very 
early in the present century by Humboldt and Bonpland, and was described 
by Kunth, in 1815, as Bletia speciosa (Nov. Gen. et Sp., I., p. 342), but it is 
said to have been mentioned by Hernandez as long ago as 1615, in a work 
on the Natural History of New Spain. It is widely distributed in Southern 
Mexico, growing on oaks at a considerable altitude, especially in places 
where the wind is constantly blowing, and where there is a wide range 
of variation between the temperature of the summer and winter seasons. 
We hope to see it become more common in cultivation. 
LLIO-CATTLEYA x ALBANENSIS. 
Two years ago this interesting and beautiful natural hybrid was described 
(Orchid Review, I., p. 339), from plants introduced from Bahia by Messrs. 
F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, and now we have a curious confirmation of 
the parentage I had assigned to it. According to the Lindenia (t. 466), 
Lelia grandis was crossed with the pollen of Cattleya Warneri, in the 
establishment L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, and the hybrid 
flowered for the first time in 1894, being now figured under the name Lzelio- 
cattleya xX Varj kyana. Whatever the origin of the plant figured, it is 
certainly identical with L.-c. x albanensis, and bears the same unmistake- 
able evidence of its descent from the above-named species, with which it 
grows in a wild state. It is rather curious that the natural hybrid between 
Cattleya Warneri and Lelia tenebrosa also appeared a few years ago, and 
now bears the name of Lelio-cattleya x Gottoiana (Rolfe, in Orchid Review, 
I., p. 338), and this is still] larger and more deeply coloured than L.-c. X 
albanensis, 
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DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM SUPERBUM. 
This very fine Dendrobium was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meeting on April 23rd, by G. Marshall, Esq., Claremont House, 
Grimsby (gr. Mr. Johnson), and received an Award of Merit. It is an 
exceptionally fine and richly-coloured form, the flower measuring 2} inches 
across the petals, which organs are over eleven lines broad, and, like the 
sepals, of a rich orange-yellow. The lip is 1} inches broad, and deep yellow 
in colour, without any trace of the usual dark blotch. Near the base of the 
raceme was a curious example of two flowers fused in one. The pedicel 
was flattened and twice as thick as usual, and at the top were five sepals, 
three petals, and two lips placed side by side. The two columns were fused 
In one, which bore two anthers at the top. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Marshall’s 
gardener, writes that the plant has stems five feet long, which flowered most 
profusely about Christmas last, and has given occasional spikes since. 
