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sepal is suffused with a similar colour, except round the broad white 
margin, and the numerous nerves are all of a deeper purple shade. The 
lip, too, is darker in colour. There is only a slight trace of the reflexed 
character of the dorsal sepal of C. purpuratum, and, indeed, much of the 
character of this parent is so much blended into that of C. insigne as to be 
almost lost. The features of C. purpuratum may be more apparent in the 
leaf, which we have not seen. It is a bright and very pretty hybrid; but 
one might be excused for not guessing that C. purpuratum was one of the 
parents. Of course we are assuming that this is one of the original stock, 
and that the parentage has been correctly given. 
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. THE HYBRIDIST. 
L#LIO-CATTLEYA X VELUTINO-ELEGANS. 
A PRETTY hybrid derived from Cattleya velutina and Lealio-cattleya xX 
elegans 3, raised by M. Chas. Maron, Orchid grower to M. Fournier, of 
Marseilles, and which recently received a First-class Certificate at Paris. 
At present it most resembles the mother plant, though rather stouter 
in habit. The flowers are fragrant, and are produced several together in an 
erect raceme, the sepals being creamy-white tinged with nankeen yellow 
and veined with rose, and the lip blush white at the base, with the front 
lobe rich crimson-purple, veined with white, and having an orange blotch 
at the base —O’Brien in Gard. Chron., Sept. 26th, p. 369- 
L2LIO-CATTLEYA X BELAIRENSIS. ; 
A very interesting hybrid, raised in the collection of M. G. Mantin, 
Chateau de Bel Air, Olivet, France, from Cattleya Bowringiana ¢ and 
Lelia autumnalis 3. The inflorescence and flowers closely resemble those 
of the Lelia in almost every particular, but the pollen is that of Latlio- 
cattleya, four of the pollinia being very small. There is also some in- 
dication of the Cattleya parent in the habit. It was exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s meeting on October 27th last. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x HARRISIANUM VIRESCENS. 
mber of the Orchid Review there is a note 
nature of this Cypripedium hybrid, and a 
ures’ collection. I 
ON page 300 of the October nu! 
with reference to the sportive ics ee 
request to know the behaviour of the plant im ®'r ® / i 
may say that it bloomed again shortly after it came here, a need 
simply an ordinary form of C. X Harrisianum. oat a ee al 
produced on a different part of the plant. I at once took s . hae 
Mr. Little of the facts, and have waited tolearn the result of his plan i next . 
The plant here has now developed a second flower, from the grow’ 
