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A large dark form of the handsome D: psis is also sent 
from the same collection, like the preceding, showing evidence of very good 
culture. This Dendrobium is specially valuable on account of its flowering 
so freely during the autumn months, when flowers are less plentiful. 
A fine flower of the handsome Lelio-cattleya x exoniensis has been 
sent from the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq., of Liscard, Cheshire. The 
characters of Lelia crispa are, as usual, very apparent, and it flowers about 
the same season ofthe year. Although the earliest of the Lzlio-cattleyas 
~-it flowered for the first time in the autumn of 1863—and still one of the 
best, we do not remember to have heard of any later batch of seedlings 
being raised. Cattleya Mossi is reported to have been one parent, but 
there remains a little uncertainty whether it was this or C. labiata, as the 
former seldom blooms at the same season as Lzelia crispa, which was 
certainly one parent, and not L. purpurata, as was long supposed. We 
should like to hear if anyone has repeated the above crosses. 
We learn with interest that Mr. F. J. Le Moyne, of Chicago, is trying 
to make a complete collection of Sobralias. Most of the species are very 
handsome, though owing to their fugitive owers and, in some cases, large 
size, they are not so much cultivated as they otherwise would be. The 
former defect is to some extent compensated for by the succession of 
flowers which they bear. When seen in masses in their native homes they 
are among the most beautiful of Orchids, as various travellers have borne 
witness. 
A three-flowered infl of the magnifi Disa grandiflora has 
been sent from the collection of Mrs. Barclay, The Briars, Reigate, by Mr. 
Bailey. The sepals are of the most brilliant scarlet, and the largest 
measures over 2} inches long by 19 lines broad, while the dorsal sepal is 
correspondingly well developed. It is one of five plants in a 48-sized pot, and 
the strongest plant carried five flowers. Mr. Bailey states that the plant 
has been grown there 13 years to his knowledge, and the two facts speak 
volumes for the soundness of the treatment adopted. It is a splendid 
example of good culture. 
We have received a splendid five-flowered inflorescence of the beautiful 
Lelio-cattleya x Brymeriana, from the collection of Colonel Brymer, 
M.P., Ilsington House, Dorchester, to which a First-class Certificate was 
given at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on August 24th last. Its 
parents are Lzelio-cattleya x amanda @ and Cattleya Warscewiczii 3 , whose 
characters it well combines, the lip being very densely and beautiful veined 
with crimson-purple on a lighter ground. It was originally described at 
page 21 of our first volume. 
