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and lip bear a zone of smaller blotches of similar colour. It is a very 
handsome thing, The other flowers are O. Phcebe, a bright O. x eximium, 
O. X percultum, anda handsome form of O. X armainvillierense, raised from 
O. crispum oakwoodiense X O. Pescatorei Charlesworthii, and having very 
large red-purple blotches. Odontioda Vuylstekez Albion is a very rich 
coloured form which is also sent, together with the very large and handsome 
Cattleya Schroeder var. Queen Alexandra, and two pretty white forms of 
C. intermedia. Somewhat later we received a flower of Odontoglossum X 
percultum (x armainvillierense X Rolfez), most like the latter, but having a 
bright yellow ground colour with much fewer spots; also O. x Eleanor, and 
a magnificent flower of O. X eximium Clarksoni, very heavily blotched with 
red-purple on a.rosy ground. 
A flower of Dendrobium nobile Armstrongie is sent by Messrs. 
Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells. It was obtained by crossing D. n. 
Amesie and D. n. virginale, and has pure white sepals and petals, of 
great size and substance, with a very dark maroon purple lip, and thus is 
most like the former but considerably improved. 
A form of Lzliocattleya Merciana, called Mrs. H. B. Simpson, is sent 
from the collection of Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking. The 
parentage is given as L. flava x C. guttata Prinzii (the latter being a 
synonym of C. amethystoglossa), and the plant is said to be flowering for 
the first time. The flowers, ten in number, are borne in a compact head, as 
in the Cattleya parent, and the colour is light yellow, with the front lobe 
of the lip and apex of the side lobes reddish maroon. The throat of the lip 
is deep yellow, and there are some maroon lines and. markings on the disc, 
while the front lobe is prettily crisped. Flowers of a beautiful variety of 
Odontoglossum crispum, called Mrs. Francis Wellesley, are also sent. They 
are excellent in shape and substance, the segments being broad and the 
flower very full, while the colour is clear white, with an irregular blotch or 
group of cinnamon-brown spots on the lip only. 
Several interesting flowers are sent from the collection of J. J. Neale, 
Esq., Penarth, by Mr. Hadden, including a spike of Arpophyllum giganteum, 
one of six borne by the plant, and one of Bulbophyllum saurocephalum, a 
native of the Philippines, also a form of Odontoglossum xX Wilckeanum 
with a pale primrose yellow ground. Masdevallia is represented by M. 
Houtteana, amabilis, Schreederiana, ludibunda, caudata and civilis, the 
latter said to be from a plant bearing forty flowers and forming quite a 
picture. The remainder are Cirrhopetalum Collettii and picturatum, the 
deep yellow D. Jenkinsii, Renanthera Imschootiana, and a brilliant form of 
Sophronitis grandiflora. 
A very pretty little Dendrobium is sent from the collection of R. le 
Doux, Esq., Marlfield, West Derby, Liverpool, by Mr. Fletcher, which 
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