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and Cattleya citrina, though there was not a trace of the latter about it 
(O.R., ix. p. 225). Thinking that the C. citrina influence might be more 
apparent in the second generation, Mr. Clark crossed the plant with some 
C. citrina pollen, and obtained several seedlings resembling the Lelia 
parent in the foliage, but eventually all but one died. It was thought that 
this also was lost, but Mr. Clark now suggests that it is just possible that 
one survived and produced the flower mentioned. The cross might be 
repeated, for C. citrina has produced true hybrids in other cases. 
CATASETUM FIMBRIATUM, 
THE female flowers of Catasetum fimbriatum, Lindl., have again appeared, 
this time in the establishment of Messrs. Charlesworth & Cvo., Haywards 
Heath, ona plant which had been obtained from a lady friend, Miss Bethel, 
who found it at Posedas, on the River Parana, in Paraguay. A few weeks 
ago a female flower from this plant was sent to Kew, which was not 
identified, the females of several species being very much alike. A little 
later, however, an inflorescence from the same plant was sent, bearing a 
flower of each sex, with a third bloom in an intermediate condition, when 
the species was at once identified. The female of this species was first 
recorded in September, 1891, when a plant from the collection of 
W. J. Wright, Esq., of Denmark Hill, which had been obtained from 
Monte Video, was exhibited at a meeting of the R.H.S., bearing two male 
and two female flowers on the same inflorescence (Gard. Chron., 1891, 
ii. p. 310). It obtained a Botanical Certificate, and the inflorescence is 
now preserved at Kew. The history of the species was given four years 
ago (O.R., xvi. p. 283), anda very interesting note about its habitat from 
the pen of Mr. H. Gurney Aggs (/.c., p. 335), describing the circumstances 
under which he met with it at the great Iguaza Falls, South Brazil. 
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DENDROBIUM ROSELLUM.—A Bornean Dendrobium belonging to the 
section Aporum has just flowered in the collection of the Hon. N. C. 
Rothschild, Ashton Wold, Oundle, possibly for the first time in Europe. 
The species was described by Mr. H. N. Ridley, Director of the Singapore 
Botanic Garden, in 1896 (Journ. Linn. Soc., xxxi. p. 269), from materials 
collected at Selabat, Borneo, by Haviland, who found the plant on the 
trunk of a fallen tree. It is nearly allied to D. Serra, Lindl., but has 
larger, rose-coloured, not white, flowers, and a differently-shaped lip. The 
species has since been collected in Gunong Panti, Johore, in the Malay 
Peninsula. The plant above mentioned was sent to Kew for determination, 
with two other species of the Aporum section, which proved to be D. Serra, 
Lindl., and D. eulophotum, Lindl. All had been imported from Borneo 
with various other species. i. Ay. 
