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A curious example of Oncidium Lanceanum with two flowers fused 
together has been sent from the collection of R. N. Hooper, Esq., 
Stanshawes Court, Chipping Sodbury. The peculiarity is occasionally 
seen in various Orchids. 
An infl of Odontogl x Coradinei expansum has been 
sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone. 
It is a very fine form, in which all the segments are unusually broad. A 
large and handsome form of O. X Wilckeanum with white ground, and 
much toothed petals with a large red-brown blotch near the apex, is also 
sent. 
A photograph of a very curious Gongora has been sent by Mr. 
I. Patter, Port of Spain, Trinidad, showing one pseudobulb 
growing from the top of another, and the upper one bearing a terminal 
raceme instead of the usual lateral one. The species is said to be 
G. maculata, and to have flowered in the collection of a gentleman in the 
sugar industry. 
CYPRIPEDIUM PHILIPPINENSE ABNORMAL. 
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A SPIKE of four curiously abnormal flowers of Cypripedium philippi 
has appeared in the collection of James Davidson, Esq., of Dumfries. In 
three flowers the lip is entirely wanting, and in the fourth only one side 
of the same organ is present, attached at one side of the column, and 
- evidently consists of the petaloid staminode A 2. A second flower has one 
petal entirely adnate to the dorsal sepal, while the other is normal, but a 
third has both petals similarly adnate, forming curious undulate margins to 
the said sepal, because the union presents them elongating, as they do when 
free. In the other flower the lip only is missing, and in every case the 
column is normal. The plant has a second raceme in a similar abnormal 
state. It isa curious example, and it will be interesting to note if the 
flowers maintain their abnormal characters on a future occasion. The 
flower in which the petaloid stamen A 2 is present is very instructive, as it 
is curved much in the same way as the side lobe of the lip, which it really 
represents. An example was recorded at page 362 of the last volume, 
where a flower of C. insigne had'the lip reduced to the two united side 
lobes, the front lobe or median petal being absent. Cypripediums seem 
unusually subject to deformities in the flowers. 
R. A. R. 
