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yellow and white grounds, and even some suffused with light rose, together 
with variations in size and in the amount of spots. The group shown by 
Messrs. Linden, at Manchester, contained several distinct forms, one called 
fascinator having the sepals slightly suffused, and a large brown blotch above 
the middle with a few smaller ones below, and the petals paler and the 
spots smaller, but similar in arrangement. Some flowers sent by Messrs. 
Linden illustrate the variation in question. Three very pretty forms have 
appeared in the collection of M. Henri Graire, of Amiens, one having a 
white ground, another light yellow, and a third suffused with rose, all being 
well spotted. Several other forms have recently been mentioned. 
O. X WENDLANDIANUM.—It is desirable to clear up the origin of 
O. X Wendlandianum (Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi, p. 6), which 
flowered with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., in 1889. It was reported to have 
come from Popayan with O. crispum Lehmanni, and O. cirrhosum was 
doubtfully suggested as the second parent. Last year Messrs. Linden, 
flowered a plant out of one of their crispum importations, which I recognised 
as identical, and now a second one has appeared which possibly throws 
some light on its origin. Mr. Schuster believes that it comes with crispum 
importations from the Hunnewellianum district, also the well-known 
O. gloriosum, and suggests its descent from these two species. This at first 
struck me as possible, but on comparison I fail to find any influence of 
O. Hunnewellianum in it, and the purple suffusion in the sepals can, I think 
only have come from O. crispum. The crest, too, is very distinct, and 
shows a marked approach to the curious thread-like character of O. crinitum, 
Rchb. f., which also would account for the acuminate spotted sepals, and 
the deltoid, acuminate spotted lip almost as well as O. gloriosum, if only it 
could be proved to grow with O. crispum. _ Its exact habitat, however, seems 
doubtful, being vaguely recorded as Eastern New Granada, and I do not 
hear of it being re-imported. 
A question which has been previously discussed is the existence of 
secondary hybrids in the genus, and it has been suggested that the remark- 
able O. X Coradinei mirabile is possibly a secondary cross between O. X 
Coradinei and O. crispum. We have also one suggested as a possible cross 
between O. X Wilckeanum and O. crispum. In such cases, however, 
there is always the possibility of one parent obtaining a preponderating 
influence over the other, and thus giving a misleading impression. The 
thing then to look for is a hybrid showing characters derived from three 
different species. Such a plant must be a secondary hybrid, and for a long 
time [ failed to find such a plant. Now, however, such evidence comes to 
hand. 
The first case is a plant from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., which 
looks like a light, little-spotted O. x Andersonianum with the very 
