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superbum. The mistake being discovered, it next appeared that it was the 
reverse cross of one called C. & W. R. Lee, to which an Award of Merit 
was given on August 14th of the previous year, but this plant having since 
died, it was agreed that Mr. Statter’s name should be allowed. But this 
does not by any means end the matter, as those who have the misfortune 
to keep records know. On the same day that Mr. Lee’s plant was 
certificated another of the same parentage was exhibited by W. C. Clarke, 
Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, under the name of C. X Mabelianum, though 
not in quite such strong condition as Mr. Lee’s. And on July 2oth of the 
present year a plant with the same parentage as C. x Lord Derby was 
described in the Garden (p. 51), from the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., 
The Woodlands, Streatham, as C. X Andronicus. The two which flowered 
first were derived from C. superbiens ? and C. Elliottianum ¢g, the two 
later ones from C. Rothschildianum ? and C. superbiens ¢, and thus 
represent the reverse cross, for C. Elliottianum i is aa a form of Rothschild- 
ianum. The Orchid Committee have very properly decided that Sses 
shall come under the original name (though in this case they made an 
exception, for the reason above stated), but they ignore the recommendation of 
the Society’s Nomenclature Committee that “hybrids between species should 
be named in Latin.” Taking all these points into consideration we have 
decided to adopt the name given above. ‘C. x Mabelianum” was named 
after Mr. Clarke’s daughter, and we therefore consider ourselves at liberty 
to change the termination into its proper form. Of this we have received 
an excellent photograph from Mr. Clarke, taken by the lady in question. 
The one called W. R. Lee is a larger and lighter-coloured variety. The 
original plant is dead, but we are told that others are in existence. 
Andronicus we have not seen, and therefore cannot say how it differs from 
the present one. 
The following is a description of the present variety, taken from flowers 
sent by Mr. Statter :—Dorsal sepal over 23 inches long by 2} broad, ground 
colour cream white, with about 21 purple-brown nerves and a few inter- 
mediate smaller ones. Petals 43 inches long by 1 broad near apex, cream 
white spotted all over with purple-brown, margins undulate and much 
ciliate. Lip 2% inches long, strongly suffused and marbled with purple- 
brown. Staminode nearly orbicular with two teeth at apex, slightly convex, 
pubescent, and ciliate, margin pale, centre suffused with purplish and 
reticulated with greenish brown. Through Mr. Macfarlane’s kindness we 
have been able to compare the present variety with the original drawing of 
W. R. Lee, and find that the dorsal sepal is a }-inch longer, as much broader, 
and more closely veined, the petals more deflexed and more densely spotted, 
the lip longer and darker, and the staminode broader and darker. It isa 
magnificent variety. 
