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A good form of O. X Denisonz is also sent, which bloomed out of an 
1898 importation of O. crispum, and comes nearer to the original form 
(Fl. Mag., n. s., 1872, t. 26) than any we have met with, both in shape and 
colour. It is nearly white, with three or four small light red blotches on the 
sepals. The shape of the sepals and lip, and particularly of the crest, leave 
no doubt of its origin. A good flower of O. nzvium is also sent. 
A very curious double growth has appeared on a plant of Lelia pur- 
purata in the collection of L. C. R. Thring, Esq., of Dunstable. When the 
young growth was about four inches high, a second growth started away 
from the first and soon caught it up, the two growing away together and 
ultimately flowering, the first bearing a raceme of four and the second one 
of three flowers, the latter, curiously enough, opening three or four days 
before the other. A photograph sent shows this curious growth, which we 
do not remember to have noticed before. 
A very pretty form of Cattleya Mossiz is also sent, in which the crimson 
veining is much reduced in front of the lip’s disc. The combination of 
colour is very delicate and pretty, but whether it agrees with any of the 
numerous named forms we are not sure. 
The fine specimen of Aérides odoratum in the collection of R. le Doux, 
Esq., which was figured at page 273 of our last volume, is again in bloom, 
carrying forty spikes of flowers. Mr. Archer thinks that it looks better than 
last year, owing to the spikes being more evenly distributed over the plant. 
It has evidently taken kindly to its new quarters, and we see no reason why 
it should not continue to do well under suitable treatment. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
L#LIO-CATTLEYA X MARTINETII VAR FLAVESCENS. 
M. Cu. Maron, of Brunoy, France, sends us two flowers of a new seedling 
from Cattleya Mossie ? and Lelia tenebrosa 3, which differ from the one 
recently exhibited at Paris in the beautiful buff colour of the sepals and 
petals, and suggests that a varietal name should be given in accordance 
with this character. We accordingly suggest flavescens, which signifies to 
grow or become yellow. The original we have not seen, but the present 
one is very beautiful, and, except in the colour of the sepals and petals, may 
be briefly compared with L.-c. x Gottoiana, the difference of course arising 
from C. Warneri being replaced by C. Mossiee in the parentage. The lip 
is fairly intermediate in shape, beautifully undulate at the margin, and 
purple in colour. It isa beautiful addition to the group, in the hybridising 
of which M. Maron has been remarkably successful. 
