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bright green near base, passing to reddish-purple towards the apex, str 
ciliate, and with five wart-like spots on each upper margin and two or three 
on the lower ones. The lip has almost the shape of C. venustum, and 
bears a trace of the characteristic markings of that parent on a light purp 
brown ground. The staminode is rather more like C. callosum. 
influence of the pollen parent is strongly marked in the colour of the do 
sepal, as well as in the shape of the lip. 
LycasTE X SCHG@NBRUNNENSIS. ; 
We have received a flower of a seedling Lycaste from the collection o 
G. S. Ball, Esq., Earlscliff, Bowden, Cheshire, which is believed to havi 
resulted from a cross between L. Skinneri and L. macrophylla Meas 
lana. It is remarkably like L. x schcenbrunnensis, described at page 5 
our first. volume, though it may not have arisen from the sam 
parentage. The second parent of that is a little doubtful. It was at fi 
thought to be L. gigantea, but failing to see evidence of this in the h 
and thinking L. Schilleriana (which we have seen confused with it) n 
likely, we suggested it as possibly the other parent. We should like to 
able to compare the two hybrids again, for they certainly bear a § 
deal of resemblance to each other, having the sepals and petals strong} 
suffused with rose-pink, of a glaucous hue, and the lip covered with min 
crimson dots. The above identification may be regarded as provisional 
only, 
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CYPRIPEDIUM x ENFIELDENSE VAR. SUFFUSUM. ‘q 
The original Cypripedium x enfieldense was raised in the collection 
A. J. Hollington, Esq., of Enfield, by Mr. Ayling, from C. Lawrenceanum ° 
and C. Hookere g. The same cross was made in the collection of F: 
Burton, Esq., of Gainsborough, and on flowering received the name 
C. X suffusum. A flower has now been sent by Mr. Burton, which sh 
that it chiefly differs from the original in having the dorsal sepal al 
suffused throughout with reddish purple, and the petals more 
approaching C. Hookere in shape and colour. Another of the see 
also sent shows more of the influence of C. Lawrenceanum in the flo 
and is nearer the original C. x enfieldense, thus showing that variat 
which is so often observed among seedlings out of the same capsule. 
leaves are very strongly tessellated, as in both parents, and all the f 
are very handsome. The variety suffusum, however, is much more 
coloured than the other, and thus deserves a varietal name by which 
distinguish it. The scapes are rather tall, as in both parents. By 
mistake the parentage of this plant was given at page 375 of our 
volume as C. Lowii ¢ x C. Hookere ¢. 
