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almost like small white or cream-coloured forms of L. purpurata, with a 
little yellow on the disc and more purple on the front lobe. The cross 
with C. Mendelii remains to be proved, for the first bud was broken off. 
It may be added that Mr. Clark also bought from the Winn sale seed- 
lings recorded as crosses of L. cinnabarina with L.-c. elegans, and L.-c. 
Schilleriana, and as the two latter are half L. purpurata some of their 
hybrids might revert to L. purpurata, though one would expect to find also 
reversions towards the Cattleya parents. There seems to have been some 
confusion with the records or seedlings. 
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EPIDENDRUM x KEWENSE: A MENDALIAN EXPERIMENT. 
AN inflorescence of the self-fertilised Epidendrum x kewense, whose history 
has already been given (O. R., xvii., pp. 13, 37, 69), has been sent by Mr. 
C. C. Hurst, Burbage, Hinckley, this being the only one showing signs of 
flowering at present. The colour may be described as cerise, with a bright 
yellow crest, and thus is much richer in colour than those previously 
recorded. Several additional forms have also flowered at Kew this season, 
and it may be interesting to put their characters on record. Seven of them 
flowered together, and as E. X kewense and the secondary crosses with the 
original parents were also in bloom, a flower from each was taken and care- 
fully compared. They were laid in a row, with E. x kewense in the middle 
and the two secondary crosses at each end, forming almost an arc of colour 
connecting the two original species. These were not available at the 
- moment, but including them the series may be thus described. E. 
xanthinum, bright yellow, crossed with E. evectum, deep purple, gave E. x 
kewense, a salmon-coloured hybrid. E. xX kewense recrossed with E. 
evectum gave a bright purple hybrid, a reversion of about three-fourths 
towards E. evectum, and E. xanthinum crossed with E. x kewense gave 
an orange-yellow hybrid, nearest to E. xanthinum, but rather deeper in 
colour. The seven seedlings from E. X kewense were as follows: Three 
showed more or less reversion towards E. evectum, (1) pale purple with a 
slight whitish mottling, (2) light rosy purple with a yellowish mottling, and 
(3) rosy purple with less yellow. The flower sent a little earlier by Mr. 
Hurst was darker still, being cerise. The four reversions towards E. 
xanthinum were: (1) light salmon colour with more yellow than E. x 
kewense, (2) slightly paler than last, (3) light yellow, with salmon colour 
on the inner halves of the lateral sepals, and a little mottling elsewhere, and 
(4) whitish yellow with a slight purple suffusion. One that flowered last 
year was primrose-yellow. No two were really alike. It represents a very 
clear case of dissociation of the original specific characters. = 
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