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CATTLEYA X EUPHRASIA. 
Another handsome hybrid raised in the establishment of Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, from Cattleya Warscewiczii ¢ and C. superba 3, to which 
an Award of Merit was given by the Royal Horticultural Society on Sep- 
tember 8th last. The flower is of good form and substance, and most like 
the seed parent in general character. The sepals and petals are bright rose- 
purple, and the lip subentire, rich crimson-purple in front, the throat 
nearly white, with a pair of light yellow blotches at the sides, and some 
reddish nerves towards the base of the disc. The features of C. superba 
are less prominent than might have been expected. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x CALCEOLUS-MACRANTHOS. 
ALL the natural hybrids of the genus Cypripedium from tropical regions 
which have hitherto appeared have been described in our pages, and it will 
therefore be interesting to add an account which appeared some time ago 
of the single example known from temperate regions :— 
“The appearance of a genuine natural hybrid in the genus Cypripedium 
is a matter of considerable interest, as until quite recently no single example 
was known, notwithstanding the facility with which they can be raised in 
gardens by artificial means. Few of the species grow together in a wild 
State, however, so that few opportunities occur for the flowers to be cross- 
fertilised by insects. C. Calceolus and C. macranthos are both natives of 
Siberia, and we now know not only that they grow intermixed, but that they 
may be cross-fertilised. M. Barbey, of Geneva, has recently published an 
account of a natural hybrid between them, and given an excellent coloured 
Plate of it, together with its two parents. About ten years ago the Jate 
M. Edmond Boissier obtained a batch of plants of C. macranthos, which 
were planted on the rockwork of the garden at Valleyres. After several 
seasons they flowered, and among them appeared not only macranthos, but 
C. Calceolus, and a third form, quite intermediate in character, which, after 
careful examination, M. Barbey was convinced was a natural hybrid etree 
them. It appears that in the Birch forests of Western Siberia, whence a 
Plants were obtained, these two species occur indiscriminately intermix . 
The plate amply proves M. Barbey’s contention, as the Ae is a. 
mediate in every respect, just as in the multitude of artifici om in 
examined. The flower is smaller than C. macranthos, — a 
colour, the dorsal sepal narrower, more acute, and shaded = ee 
Petals longer, and twisted; the lip intermediate, but slightly = si 
C. macranthos ; and the staminode and lower sepal a ri fads 
Mediate. It is not only extremely interesting, but decidedly Z 
Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1892, Xi P- 394+ 
