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on the under surface of the leaves. It may be worthy of remark that the 
P. barbatum grandiflorum used as seed parent was the same plant in both 
instances, and that in both cases also the two pollen masses were used. In 
my first attempt only one pollen mass was used. I may add that the one par- 
ticular seedling of the first batch which showed the influence of P. niveum in 
the foliage has now died without flowering, so that I may put down my first 
attempt to produce a true P. X Tautzianum asa failure.” It may be 
remembered that the remaining seedlings of this batch proved indistinguish- 
able from P. barbatum when they flowered, and yet the greatest care was 
taken in making the cross. Mr. Young has made no less than twelve 
attempts to raise this particular hybrid, and certainly deserves to be con- 
gratulated on at length succeeding. Probably the success will be repeated 
as other seedlings reach the flowering stage. The original P. x Tautzianum 
was raised from the reverse cross, P. niveum being the seed-parent, as also 
appears to have been the case with the variety lepidum ; the present one, 
from the reversed cross, is sufficiently distinct from both to warrant the use 
of the varietal name. The ground colour is white, with a distinct flush of 
rosy purple, and the markings are of a rather darker shade. 
AERIDES MULTIFLORUM AND ITS ALLIES, 
SOME time ago the late Major-General Berkeley showed that the well- 
known Aérides multiflorum could be divided into four distinct types or 
varieties, according to the geographical area in which the plants were 
collected (Orch. Rev., i. pp. 163-164). Mr. Gustav Mann has now made 
some observations which point inthe same direction, though, owing to the 
absence of specimens from certain localities, it is difficult to follow all the 
details. Mr. Mann, however, has had good opportunities to observe the 
species in a wild state. 
The original A. multiflorum, of Roxburgh, was described and figured 
from specimens collected on the Garrow Hills, in the vicinity of Silhet 
(Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. p. 68, t. 271), where it is said to flower during April and 
May. Mr. Mann describes it as having bright green, narrow, and thin 
leaves, nearly always drooping, like the flowers. He considers that Bot. 
Mag., t. 4049 is an excellent figure of this species, notwithstanding a note 
in the text that the plant was sent to Kew from the mountains of Nepal, 
which he thinks must have arisen through some mistake, as the plant never 
grows as far west as Nepal. 
The plant growing in the Sikkim Himalaya, Nepal, and as far east as 
Lower Assam, which is said to be accurately represented in Pantling’s 
Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya (Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii., p. 212, 
