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very remarkable, though floriculturally no one will venture to consider it 
an improvement. 
Another curious example has flowered with Messrs. Hurst & Son, 
Purbage Nurseries, near Hinckley. A scape has, developed a leaf-like 
bract, nearly four inches long, and two flowers. The upper flower is 
normal, but the lower only has the lateral sepals free, and the staminode 
suppressed, while the lip is practically reduced to the two united side-lobes; 
being channelled underneath, bilobed at the apex, and the front lobe 
wanting. A third curious malformation of C. insigne, which appeared in 
the collection of T. W. Swinburne, Esq., was described at page 322, and a 
fourth from the collection of Mrs. Barton, N. Devon, has lost the 
staminode, lip and petals, though the remaining organs are perfect. 
These curious malformations generally excite a good deal of curiosity, 
and the question is often asked what can be the cause of their production. 
Briefly, they may be described as partial reversions to an ancestral 
condition, and they are chiefly interesting because of the light they throw 
on the structure of an Orchid flower, and its development from a typical 
monocotyledon, to which subject a succeeding article is devoted. 
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CGELOGYNE TRIPLICATULA. 
This is a rather fine Coelogyne, originally introduced from Moulmein by 
the Rev. C. S. Parish, which seems to have been almost or quite lost sight 
of in gardens, at all events so far as the name is concerned, though it has 
recently re-appeared in at least two different collections, and may exist in - 
others unrecognised. It was originally described by Reichenbach in 1864 
(Bot. Zeit., xxii., p. 415), from a plant which flowered in the collection of 
the late John Day, Esq., at Tottenham, and was afterwards figured in 
Xenta Orchidacea (II., p. 159, t. 166). It also existed in the collection of 
the late W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. It has re-appeared in the collection 
M. A. Van Imschoot, of Mont-St.-Amand, Gand, and of M. Godefroy Lebeuf, 
of Argenteuil. It is closely allied to C. fuliginosa, Lindl., but is markedly 
different both in the shape of the lip and in colour. Both the sides of the 
front lobe and the apex of the side lobes are reflexed, the margin less 
fimbriate, and the keels different. The colour is buff-yellow, or almost 
light brownish, and the front of the lip heavily marked with deep brown. 
The racemes bear two flowers, but like several others in this group they 
come in succession, one expanding only when the other is over. In the 
Flora of British India it has been confused with C. fuliginosa, but is easily 
separated by the characters above pointed out, and especially by the shape 
of the lip. Should any one else possess the plant théy will easily be able to 
recognise it from this note. 
R.. Ass 
