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Two interesting flowers are sent from the establishment of M. C. F. 
Karthaus, Potsdam, by Mr. R. Blossfeld. Cattleya Seligerzee (Whitei 
xX Adonis) is a small seedling flowering for the first time, and should 
develop into a fine thing. It is very richly coloured, and has a deeply 
three-lobed, purple-crimson lip. It is dedicated to Mrs. W. Seliger, 
Hartford, Conn., U.S.A., an enthusiastic lady amateur. The other 
is a form of C. Norma (C. armainvillierensis xX Mossiz), and is very 
promising. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
Gnaeus ST. ALBAN.—A flower of the handsome Odontonia St. Alban 
(Miltonia Warscewiczii x Odontoglossum Pescatorei), which received an 
Award of Merit from the R.H.S. on June 18th last, is sent by Messrs. 
Sander & Sons, St. Albans. It bears a considerable resemblance to O. 
Lairessez, but the flowers are slightly smaller, and have much of the neat 
shape of the Pescatorei parent. The ground colour is white, with brownish 
purple blotches on all the segments, and the lip is very broadly pandurate, 
and clear white in front, with a few purple marginal dots, there being also a 
pale zone round the bright yellow crest. The column is spotted with 
purple, and the wings are entire. The plant bore about twenty flowers, 
and will evidently produce a large panicle when it becomes strong. 
OpDONTIODA ROLFEI.—A curious little Odontioda, raised in the collection 
of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham, from Cochlioda vulcanica ? and 
Odontoglossum Hunnewellianum 3, and exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting 
held on June 18th last. The flowers are most like the Cocblioda parent in 
shape, and the sepals and petals are of a peculiar purple brown, with a few 
pale yellow markings on the latter. The lip is three-lobed, nearly free from 
the column, with some purple blotches on the front lobe, a few purple dots 
on the side lobes, and the crest whitish. The column wings are broad and 
minutely denticulate. 
Pome 
OPHRYS HYBRIDS.—At the meeting of the Société Nationale d’ Horti- 
culture de France, held on March 28th last, some Ophrys hybrids were 
exhibited by M. G. Camus. They had been obtained by M. F. Denis, 
Balaruc-les-Bains, by crossing Ophrys tenthredinfera with the pollen of O. 
aranifera, and were quite intermediate between the parents. They are 
believed to be the first Ophrys hybrids raised artificially, though a number 
of natural hybrids have been recognised, and among them this particular 
one, which has been found in three localities i in Italy, and is known as O. 
Grampinii (Cortesi in Ann. di Bot. i. Pp- 359, 360, fig. C). He also 
exhibited examples of O. bombyliflora from M. Denis. —Fourn. Soc. Nat, 
Hort. France, 1912, p. 186. 
