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_ originally reported in American Gardening, and one final paragraph deserves 
to be repeated in full, ‘‘ The end is approaching. Many of the New 
Granadan Orchids are rapidly decreasing in quantity. Cattleya chrysotoxa 
is very near extinction, Miltonia vexillaria is going fast, as are also Cattleya 
Mendelii and Odontoglossum crispum. Miltonia vexillaria and O. crispum 
increase rapidly from seed, where the forests are not already destroyed, or 
hey would have been extinct ere this. The natives are also beginning to 
deal more considerately with the forests, besides which many of the land- 
owners, and even the respective governments, are taking precautions 
against the total destruction of their most beautiful jewels. And can you 
blame them ?’’ No; more power to them! says 
ARGUS. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X CALLOSO-NIVEUM. 
Tuis is a very pretty little plant, derived from C.niveum ? and C. callosum 
3, of which a flower has been sent from the collection of R. H. Measures, 
Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, with the information that it was raised 
by Messrs. F. Sander’& Co. It is comparable with C. X Tautzianum and 
C. X Aphrodite, two other hybrids from C. niveum, whose second parents 
were respectively C. barbatum and C. Lawrenceanum, and as these are 
closely allied to C. callosum, the resemblance in the hybrids is readily 
explained. The flower is about intermediate in size and shape, but most 
like C. niveum in colour, being white with a trace of purple veining on the 
dorsal sepal and front of the lip, and some minute purple spots on the base 
of the petals. The dorsal sepal is ovate, 1} inches broad, and the petals 
nearly 2 inches long: by 4-inch broad. The staminode’ is broad, with 
tridentate apex, and the colour white, a pair of dark reticulated blotches in 
the centre. It is a graceful and very pretty little plant. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X ROssIANUM. 
A new hybrid, which has just flowered in the collection of H. J. Ross, 
Esq., of Florence, Italy. Mr. Ross writes that the label was unfortunately 
lost in the transport of the Orchids from Castagnola, but that it looks like 
C. barbatum x C.tonsum. In this we entirely agree, for seldom have we 
seen a hybrid which shows more clearly evidences of its descent. In the 
dorsal sepal it is much like C. barbatum in shape, but, with less purple at 
the sides, and in the petals and lip the characters of C. tonsum are equally 
apparent, especially in the colour and markings of the. petals. The leaf is 
also most like the latter, while the staminode is about intermediate in shape. 
It is very interesting, as it unmistakably combines the characters of the 
two parent species. 
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