292 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CATASETUM BUNGEROTHII, 
A PLANT of Catasetum Bungerothii in the establisl of Messrs. F. 
Sander and Co., St. Alban’s, has produced a spike of three flowers which are 
in a transition state between the sexes. The lower flower is nearly a female, 
but the saccate lip has in addition the broad white membranaceous margin 
of the male and the column is also beaked. The second flower is nearly a 
male, but the lip has a sac three-quarters of an inch deep, instead of being 
simply concave ; while in the third flower the sac is still smaller. In each 
case the sac is fleshy, as in the female flower. It is a very curious example. 
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DIES ORCHIDIANZ&, 
Last month I alluded to Cattleya x Hardyana (p. 264), and I even 
mentioned a “ batch of home-raised seedlings” as among the possibilities 
of the future ; but little did I suspect that at that very moment home-raised 
seedlings were actually expanding their magnificent blooms on the banks 
of the Tyne. Such, however, was the fact, and a few days later they 
appeared in all their glory at the Drill Hall. There were two plants, cne 
bearing a single flower, the other a raceme of two, but unquestionably 
Hardyana ; home-raised, obtained by crossing Cattleya Dowiana aurea with 
the pollen of C. Warscewiczii Just nine years ago. Mr. Cookson and his able 
gardener took that lesson about Cattleya x Hardyana to heart at a time 
when Mr. Hardy might have obtained. a record price for his handsome 
novelty, and set about obtaining it for themselves. And they have succeeded, 
as all the world now knows. There will be no need to speak of Cattleya X 
Hardyana as a “ supposed ” natural hybrid in future, for its origin has been 
proved by direct experiment, and if the result only confirms the opinion of 
our most competent experts it is none the less interesting on that account. 
Nothing short of actual demonstration was sufficient to set the question at 
rest, for even as late as September 2nd a note appeared in Garden and Forest 
(p- 354) that some forms of C. gigas “‘so nearly resemble C. Hardyana that 
one feels disposed to look upon the latter as a sport simply from C. gigas.” 
On the other hand, one form at least of C. x Hardyana has been ranked as 
a variety of C. Dowiana, from which the utility of such experiments as the 
present one will be apparent. Probably others will be heard of in future. 
I have just dropped across a story entitled, ‘The flowering of the 
ae ge Orchid,” which puts that of the “village of the demon flower” 
quite into the shade, and I fear that my congratulations on the failure of 
that expedition were a little Premature. It would appear that one Winter 
