66 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A good form of Cattleya Percivaliana from the collection of rE. ee 
Esq., of Ashton-on-Mersey, in which the front lobe of the lip is simi Be : 
colour to the rest of the flower, namely light rosy purple. ‘The throat ‘ 0) 
the usual deep orange colour. It may be called C. Percivaliana var. bicolor. 
Referring to the note at page 1 of Cypripedium x Ashburton with 
twin-flowered spikes, Mr. W. Wallace Lunt, of Boston, Mass: bee ee 
that the phenomenon is of quite frequent occurrence in his small col 2 fe: 
and that at the present time he has in flower the following, a “ 
two-flowered scapes:—C. barbatum, C. callosum, C. insigne, a 
Spicerianum, C. venustum, C. xX vexillarium, and C. x a 
Excellent photographs of C. callosum and C. x vexillarium a this 
are enclosed, and show that the plants are strong and well cultivated. 
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A photograph showing three flowers of Sel ipedi x Scl o 
expanded together on the same spike is also sent from the same collec’ 5 
and is interesting because the older flowers frequently fall off w 
succeeding ones come out, sometimes when quite fresh. 
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The Cypripedium insigne with abnormal flowers figured at ae: ae 
our last volume is not flowering this season, as we learn from Me oe 
We must wait until next winter to see if the peculiarity is perma 
A two-flowered raceme of Lycaste Skinneri has been received from a 
collection of H. Gurney Aggs, Esq., Pippbrook, Dorking, and it is ine 
to note that this is the third successive year in which the same ie : 
occurred. There are also seven single-flowered scapes on the same plant 
It may be due to excess of vigour, caused by good culture. 
A very pretty form of Cypripedium x Macfarlanei, called vag 
giganteum, has been sent from the collection of W. P. Burkinshaw, — of 
Hessle, in which the dorsal sepal is over two inches broad, and the = C 
the flower proportionate. It is a seedling from C. Spicerianum an fs 
xX calophyllum, and the character of the former is especially conspicuous: 
- * iganteum 
A very fine form of C. villosum and Dendrobrium Findlayanum gigan 
come from the same collection. f 
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DIES ORCHIDIANZ. 
SEVERAL of the articles wh 
Orchid Review have intereste 
mention the important resul 
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on the “ Spot Disease of Orchids ” (page 19). It is always an importan 
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ich appeared in the last two numbers se 2 
d me a good deal. In the first place I wou 
q Brin joations * 
ts obtained by Mr. Massee in his investigatio 
