82 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
exceptional a variety, for it is as good in form as it is brilliant in colour. 
Last year he obtained a number of others—all imported plants—which 
have not turned out quite so well as they should have done, owing, it is 
thought, to a spell of warm weather which set in just as they had finished 
off their bulbs, when they again started into growth. It is hoped that this 
season they will settle down and do better. We do not know if others had 
a similar experience with this species last season. 
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THE HYBRIDIST. 
MASDEVALLIA X_ ACIS. 
ANOTHER very interesting hybrid Masdevallia, has now been added to the 
remarkable series raised by Captain Hincks, of Richmond, Yorks., to 
whom we are indebted for a photograph and a two-flowered raceme. It isa 
seedling from M. abbreviata, but, unfortunately, there is a little uncertainty 
about the other parent, though a glance at the flower shows a multitude of 
those remarkable iridescent violet hairs, which can only have come from M. 
Veitchiana or some hybrid derived from it. Captain Hincks made two 
crosses with M. abbreviata, using the pollen both of M. Veitchiana and Ls 
x Chelsoni, and sowed seeds from each cross, but is uncertain from which 
the present seedling was derived. _M. x Chelsoni was obtained from M. 
amabilis ¢ and M. Veitchiana 3, and we are inclined to think that M. X 
Chelsoni rather than M. Veitchiana, was one parent of the present 
seedling. This, however, is only because of the small size of the flower of 
the present one, for we fail to trace any other direct influence of = 
amabilis in it. Further experiments may, perhaps, settle this doubtful point 
and the cross with M. Veitchiana, at all events, should be repeated.‘ 
habit, the plant most resembles M. abbreviata, though the scape is ms 
and, at present, only two-flowered. The flowers, too, approach those of 
this parent in shape, though modified in size, shape, and. colour. The 
sepals are eight to nine lines long, divided to the middle, and the t 
about two lines longer still. The sepals inside are strongly suffused with 
orange-yellow, very little of which is apparent on the dorsal one, but all 
are densely covered with the remarkable iridescent violet hairs % 
Veitchiana, while on the inner angles of the lateral ones are the character 
istic purple spots of M. abbreviata, but more maroon in colour. The peti 
and lip also resemble those of this parent in shape, the former being win 
and the latter much spotted with maroon-purple on a yellow ground. i 
_ a very Pretty little plant, and remarkable because the parents belong e 
Bea see sections of the genus. We believe it is the first. hy 
from a species of the Amandz, or M. polysticta group. 
