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honour of knocking it down again.” This isa rather serious matter, and the 
question clearly cannot rest where it now is. Mr. O’Brien must either sub- 
stantiate his charges or withdraw them. It seems to me, however, that this 
bogey is only a mare’s nest of Mr. O’Brien’s own creation. I certainly 
thought that almost every Cypripedium list that has appeared during the 
last few years—and they number some half-a-dozen, more or less—contained 
a species called Cypripedium Kimballianum, said to be a native of New 
Guinea. Mr. O’Brien, however, seems to be quite unaware of the fact, and 
rushes in with a calm disregard of such petty details as facts and references, 
and a nice little muddle he makes of it in consequence. 
Most remarkable of all, however, is the statement that the whole thing 
was unnecessary, being in point of fact “ ancient history to Orchid growers.” 
I find no trace of a record, but this of course proves nothing, though all the 
same I fancy it will prove difficult to substantiate by documentary evidence. 
But whether or no, the whole incident is instructive, and unless I am greatly 
mistaken we shall hear of it again, so I will defer further comments for 
the present. 
: ARGUS. 
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LALIO-CATTLEYA x ELEGANS VAR. OWENIZA. 
This very handsome natural hybrid has now flowered in the collection of 
T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester. It is the Lelia x 
Oweniz, L. Lind. (Lindenia, viii., P- 79, t. 374), which was described as a 
supposed natural hybrid between Lelia Perrinii and Lzlio-cattleya X 
elegans, but on examination proves a very richly-coloured variety of the 
latter. Apart from the difficulty that these two plants do not grow together, 
there is the further one that it shows none of the essential characters of 
Lelia Perrinii, which come out so strongly in Leelio-cattleya x Statteriana 
and L.-c. x Decia, both artificially raised from it. The pollen is identical 
with that of L.-c. x elegans, which alone proves that one parent was a 
Cattleya, and the characters of C. Leopoldi and Lelia purpurata are 
as strongly stamped upon it as on other forms of this remarkably poly- 
morphic natural hybrid. The flowers are 52 inches in diameter across the 
petals, with almost the substance of the Cattleya parent, and the sepals and 
petals rich rose-purple, but not of that particular shade shown in the 
original plate. The lip is only obscurely three-lobed, the front lobe being 
quite sessile, and, as well as the apex of the side lobes and the disc, of a 
very rich amethyst purple. The rest of the side lobes, inside and out, is 
white, affording a remarkable contrast. The back of the column is deep 
rose-purple. It is certainly a very handsome form. 
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