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intermediate between Odontioda Bradshawie and O. Lutetia, but the 
flowers are at present smaller. The sepals and petals are orange-red, with 
paler margins and apex, and some yellow markings at the base of the petals. - 
The lip is yellow, with red margins to the side lobes, and a large red blotch 
in front of the crest, the latter being lined with red between the lobes and 
on the sides. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM NIOBE.—A very pretty hybrid raised by Messrs. 
Sander & Sons, St. Albans, from O. elegans ? and O. armainvillierense 3, 
and fairly intermediate in character. It has distinctly acuminate white 
sepals and petals, with very broad, rich red-brown bands on the broader 
basal part. The lip is pandurate, with a broad acute front lobe, and a 
broad, deep red-brown blotch in front of the crest. The base and crest are 
light yellow, with red spots, and show much of the character of O. 
cirrhosum. It was exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on January 
17th last. 
BRASSOCATLELIA FRAGNEANA.—A _ handsome hybrid raised in the 
collection of M. J. Ginot, St. Etienne, France, from Cattleya Triane 
spectabilis @ and Brassolelia Gratrixie g. The flowers are of good 
shape, and the sepals and petals Indian yellow with a rosy suffusion, 
the petals being broad, and over 23 inches long. The lip is entire, neatly 
fringed, with a yellow throat, and a rosy suffusion in front. The flowers 
sent are the best out of half-a-dozen plants now flowering for the first time. 
It is a hybrid of much promise, comparable with Brassocatlelia Fowleri in 
general character. 
L#LIOCATTLEYA DESGRANGEANA.—Another fine hybrid sent by M. 
Ginot, received by him, in exchange, with the record Cattleya labiata 2? X 
Lelia lobata ¢ , which appears to be correct. The plant is said to resemble 
the pollen parent in habit, and combines very well the characters of the 
two, being of good shape and bright purple in colour, with a rather darker 
front lobe to the lip, and a little yellow in the throat. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM May.—Raised by Messrs. James~Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea, from P. Euryades maculatum ¢ and P. glaucophyllum ¢, and 
exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on January 3rd last. The single 
seedling is now at Kew, and a flower of the actual seed parent has been 
sent for comparison. The broad, spreading leaves, the two-flowered 
infloresence, and the lip show the character of P. glaucophyllum, but 
the flower is more like the seed parent in size and shape. The dorsal 
sepal is nearly orbicular, closely dotted and marbled with purple on a light 
ground, with a green base, and the petals and lip marked with purple. 
The scape is twin-flowered at present. The seed parent is a handsome 
thing, having the dorsal sepal nearly covered with dark purple-brown 
blotches. 
