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leaved group or a hybrid from it. The scape is two-flowered, and the 
dorsal sepal rose-purple with a darker basal area and some similar veining. 
The petals are purplish, with some minute dark dotting, as if some hybrid 
from P. superbiens were the other parent, while the lip is somewhat similar 
in colour, and the staminode broadly hippocrepiform, and white, with a 
tinge of light purple. It is unfortunate that so little of its history is known. 
A three-flowered inflorescence of the very handsome Cattleya x 
Rothschildiana, Westonbirt var. (Gaskelliana x Dowiana), is sent from the 
collection of Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, Westonbirt, by Mr. Alexander. 
The flowers are of perfect shape, the sepals and petals bright lilac-rose in 
colour, the throat and disc of the lip rich orange, and the front lobe 
brilliant purple-crimson. It is from the plant which received a First-class 
Certificate from the R.H.S. in July, 1906. 
Several interesting flowers are sent from the collection of His Honour, 
judge Philbrick, Bodorgan House, Bournemouth. There is a very pretty 
Cattleya of unknown parentage, which is said to be almost identical in 
growth with C. Bowringiana, but perhaps a little more sturdy. The flower, 
however, is very distinct, the lip having rather short side lobes, and a trace 
of Dowiana-like veining on the disc, and we are inclined to think it may be 
a form of the variable Cattleya x Adula (bicolor x Hardyana). The 
sepals and petals are broad, well expanded, and. blush pink; the side lobes 
of the lip similar in colour, and as long as the white column, while the front 
lobe is crimson-purple, the disc distinctly veined with whitish yellow, and 
with a brighter yellow marking in the centre. The scape is four-flowered. 
The others are, a flower of the brightly-coloured C. x lucida (Bowringiana 
x Schilleriana), a form of Paphiopedilum x Fowleri (Rothschildianum x 
callosum), said to be the reverse cross of the original, and what may bea 
form of P. x Helvetia (Chamberlainianum x _philippinense), though it is 
said to have broader, more glaucous foliage, also a broader dorsal sepal. 
It shows the philippinense character very strongly. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
ODONTOGLOssUM X MAURITANIA.—A distinct and striking hybrid raised in 
the collection of John S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishops Waltham, from 
Q. sceptrum crossed with the pollen of O. x Rolfe. The flowers are 
larger than in the seed parent, and the sepals are pale sulphur yellow, 
heavily barred with dark brown, the petals toothed, cream white, with dark 
brown blotches, and the broadly pandurate lip white, with one large purple 
blotch in front of the deep yellow toothed crest, and many purple streaks at 
_the sides. The column wings are narrow and toothed. It was exhibited at 
the R.H.S. meeting on August 2nd, and one of the flowers has now been 
sent by Mr, Kench, 
