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MILTONIA x LAMARCHEANA. 
Two plants of this distinct and handsome natural hybrid were exhibited 
at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on October 15th, from the 
collections of Walter Cobb, Esq., "and: of. §. °G, Lutwyche, Esq. It 
originally appeared in the collection of M. Lamarche de Rossius, President 
of the Société Royale d’Horticulture de Liége, in August 1874, and two 
years later was figured and descrived by Professor E. Morren, as Miltonia 
Clowesii var. Lamarcheana (Belg. Hort., xxvi, p. 174, t. 13). It was received 
direct from the province of Minas Geraes, in 1873. Some years later Reichen- 
bach received a specimen from the collection of M. Massange de Louvrex, 
of Liége, when he changed the name as above, stating “‘ my opinion is that 
the plant may be a mule between M. candida and M. Clowesii,’’ in which 
he was evidently correct. In 1893 what is certainly the same cross appeared 
in the collection of Major Joicey, Sunningdale Park, and was _ re-described 
by Mr. J. O’Brien under the name of M. x Joiceyana (Gard. Chron., 1893, 
il., p. 206). It received a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural 
Society on August 8th, 1893. Some time later a plant appeared with 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, and now the above additions 
have to be recorded. The sepals and petals are much like those of M. 
Clowesii, both in shape and colour, but the lip is about twice as broad, flat, 
light purple on the basal half and white in front. Mr. Lutwyche’s plant 
showed a distinct trace of the concave lip of M. candida. The few known 
plants of this handsome hybrid have appeared among importations of the 
parent species, and when plants are so rare there is a considerable danger of 
their receiving a different name at each time of their appearance. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
ONCIDIUM SPILOPTERUM. 
Some interesting remarks respecting this striking but much confused 
species appear in the last number of the Orchid Album, where it is well 
figured at t. 510, and it seems desirable that its history should now be 
completed. It originally appeared in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges, 
of Hackney, by whom it was imported from Brazil, and was described by 
Dr. Lindley in 1844 as O. spilopterum (Bot. Reg., XXx., Mist., Pp. 75). its 
affinity was said to be with O. Lanceanum and O. carthaginense. 
Immediately afterwards it was again described by Prof. Charles Morren, 
under the name of O. gollopavinum (Amn. de Gand., Fe. 14, t. 1), from a 
plant which flowered in the establishment of M. Ambrose Verschaffelt, said 
to have been imported from Mexico, a statement which Lindley adopted 
when figuring the plant, a year after his original description appeared (Bot. 
Reg., xxxi., t. 40), though it has since proved erroneous. Lindley then 
