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to whom I wrote, remembered the circumstance perfectly, and the 
commotion it caused, but cannot remember exactly how the drawing was 
made, though with regard to all the circumstances he is inclined to concur 
in the above explanations. 
Whatever the explanation may be, the fact remains that C. ventricosum 
and C. Egertonianum, which were so long confused together, are very. 
distinct species, and belong to different sections of the genus. C. ventri- 
cosum belongs to the first section—technically known as Eucycnoches—in 
which the lip is ovate, very fleshy, and immoveable in both sexes, its allies 
being C. Loddigesii, C. chlorochilon, and C. Haagei (the latter probably 
including C. versicolor). C. LEgertonianum belongs to the section 
Heteranthz, in which the two sexes are very diverse, the female agreeing 
with the preceding section, but the lip of the male reduced to a small disc 
with radiating teeth, and attached to a slender hinge so as to move up and 
down. Its allies are C. Warscewiczii, C. Rossianum, C. pentadactylon, C. 
maculatum, C. aureum, C. peruvianum, and one or two imperfectly-known 
ones. Of the four first mentioned in each section, both sexes are now 
known, and in due time the history of the genus may be completed. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
CATTLEYA MENDELII ABNORMAL. 
A large and beautiful form of Cattleya Mendelii has been sent by 
G. Wood, Esq., Brandon, Suffolk, in which the two halves of the lip are 
not alike, one side of the disc having nearly lost the yellow suffusion, and 
the characteristic reddish purple lines being reduced to two, and situated 
close to the pale centre line. Immediately on the other side of the centre a 
bright purple line extends right to the apex, and there expands into a small 
purple auricle, which is very curious. On this side the disc is normal in 
character, the rest of the lip being blush-white. In other respects the 
flower is normal, the colour being blush-white, and the petals 4 inches long 
by 2} inches broad. We rather suspect that it may have come out of an 
importation to which we have previously called attention (see p. 224, also 
vol. ii., p. 251), in which every plant is said to show the same tendency to 
abnormal development, in some cases only two or three of the segments 
being present. A curious example of the same was shown by Mr. Chapman, 
gardener to R. I. Measures, Esq., of Camberwell, at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meeting on July gth, in which one flower had the lip curiously 
flaked with irregular stripes of white and rosy purple, the other flower on 
the same raceme being normal. This is said to have been the first perfect 
flower produced by the plant since it arrived, about a dozen others which 
have previously appeared all being abnormal in some way or other, 
and some of them very imperfect. Thus the plant seems to be 
in a sportive condition. It is said to have come out of the importation 
