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with certainty, as the only flowers found were already slightly faded; it 
appears to be yellow, stained with red, the hypochil of the lip deep, 
glowing red.” 
The flowers produced under cultivation have the hypochil, or helmet, 
dorsally compressed, three-quarters of an inch broad and high, with the 
margin sinuately arched in front, and bearing inside and near the margin 
outside some remarkable stellate hairs of cystalline appearance, and the 
mesochil, though strongly gibbous, is not broken up into three teeth. These 
differences, however, may arise from variation in the species. The colour 
of the sepals, petals, epichil (bucket), and face of the column is yellow, 
densely spotted with red-brown; the mesochil darker and less spotted, and 
the helmet marbled with deep brownish crimson, with only a few traces of 
yellow at the back. It is interesting to find another species of this 
remarkable genus in cultivation. It can best be compared with C. maculata, 
which, together with the large and handsome C. macrantha, has recently 
flowered at Kew. 
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THE MERE BANK COLLECTION. 
D. B. Rappart, Esq., may be congratulated on his success in the art of 
Hybridisation in his collection at Liscard. It seems to be perfectly easy for 
him to obtain healthy, strong seed pods on Dendrobium Wardianum, for he 
has done so on several occasions, and is now rewarded with tiny seedlings 
of which that species is the seed-bearing parent; while at the present time 
there is to be seen in his houses a very fine large pod nearing maturity 
which is remarkably distinct from most others, on account of its peculiar 
glaucous colour. It is fertilized with D. x Ainsworthii intertexum. The 
above feat is well worthy ot record, but it seems to be overshadowed by 
another, which is nothing less than a fine batch of Odontoglossum seedlings, 
up and doing well. These are from the crosses :-—QO. crispum x. Edwardit, 
O. cordatum x Edwardii (also the reversed cross), and O. Edwardit a 
Uroskinneri. Needless to say these wonderful little plants are watched “e 
nursed with great care and justifiable pride, both by Mr. Rappart and his 
able gardener, Mr. Nicholson. 
There are many other seedlings here of great interest 
of growth, such for instance as D. Wardianum x nobile, 
lius, D. W. x splendidissum grandiflorum, D. nobile grandiflorum x <a 
Worthii intertexum, Lzelia purpurata x Cattleya Warscewiczil, i tene rosa 
X Cattleya Warscewiczii, C. Mossia x Warscewiczii, Lelia superbiens x 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea, C. Skinneri alba x Parthenia, C. Gaskelliana alba 
X Lelia Digbyana, and L. purpurata x Digbyana. 
in different stages 
D. W. x n. nobi- 
