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expanded before these remarks appear. A very graphic account of this 
species, as found in its native wilds, from the pen of Mr. James Rodway, is 
given in the third volume of this work, together with a photographic 
illustration (page 41). The allied C. maculata has also flowered in the 
collection two or three times during the past summer, the flowers being 
smaller and more numerous. 
A very fine form of Cattleya xX Hardyana has appeared in the collection 
of Col. Shipway, Grove Park, Chiswick. The lip is four inches long, and 
about typical in colour, and the petals, which are a little mottled, are 
equally well developed, being 33in. long, and broad in proportion. 
VARIORUM.—For a long time well-meaning, old-fashioned botanists on 
the Continent believed that our deeply-lamented Doctor invented the Orchids 
that he described, and they suggested to their English friends that they 
should have a look at his fingers! Lindley was greatly amused at this 
story, and repeated it to me one day as one of his most funny remem- 
brances.—Reichenbach in Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 197. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CyPRIPEDIUM X BINGLEYENSE. 
UNDER the above name we have received from Mr. A. J. Keeling, of 
Bingley, Yorks., a very pretty hybrid derived from C. Charlesworthii and 
C. xX Harrisianum, the latter presumably the pollen parent. It was 
exhibited under this name at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society on August 25th last, but on August 17th it appeared at a meeting 
of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society as C. X rubrum. 
The latter name has been used twice previously for other hybrids, which 
possibly may have led to the change in the present instance, and, if so, we 
may remark that in each case the name has had to give place to an earlier 
one, and was therefore free for the presentone. It isa promising acquisition, 
but not yet fully developed. The dorsal sepal is orbicular, reddish purple, 
with a white margin into which some rosy veins extend ; the petals reddish 
purple, somewhat tinged with green at the base, and the lip suffused 
with purple in front. The staminode is obtriangular, ivory white flushed 
with pink, and with a yellow boss in the centre. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X NIGRESCENS. 
At the Hybridisation Conference a pretty little hybrid between Lelia 
pumila ¢ and L. tenebrosa g was exhibited by M. Ch. Maron, under the 
above name. The same cross was made by Mr. E. A. Orpet, South 
Lancaster, Mass, U.S.A., in May, 1895, and in August of the present year 
produced its first flower, when but little over three years old, for the seed 
