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Mr. Lance; and it flowered in May, and again in the winter of 1832.” — 
Soon afterwards, in August, 1836, what was thought to be a second species — 
of the genus flowered in the collection of Mr. Willmer, of Oldfield, i 
Birmingham, and was sent to Lindley, who called it C. cucullata. It had ~ 
a short column, hooded and dilated at the apex, and broad petals and lip. 
In the autumn of 1836, however, and before the name was published, a — 
plant in the garden of the Horticultural Society startled Lindley by — 
producing flowers of C. Loddigesii on one side of the pseudobulb and those 
of C. cucullata on the other side (Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1951*). Lindley was — 
completely mystified, and could only term the phenomenon a ‘‘ freak, 
though it is now known that the two are sexes of the same species, C-— 
cucullata being the female. About this time the species was much 
cultivated and highly esteemed, but ultimately it became rare, if not 
completely lost sight of, though of late years it has reappeared, and has 
frequently been seen in flower. The annexed illustration represents a plant | 
which recently flowered at Kew, and is reproduced from a photograph j 
taken by Mr. F. W. Rolfe, which shows the flowers greatly reduced. These — 
ate, of course, males, but females have appeared in the collection of H. Jag 
Elwes, Esq. (O.R. ii. pp. 277, 354). The sepals and petals are light greet, ~ 
mcre or less suffused and veined with pale brown, and the lip is porcelain 
white, with a few dark purple-brown spots near the base, and an area of the : 
latter colour at the junction of the lip and column. The flowers exhale an — 
aromatic perfume. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM x ARMAINVILLIERENSE. i 
A FLOWER of a very beautiful Odontoglossum seedling is sent by M. Ch. ; 
Vuylsteke, of Loochristi, which M. Vuylsteke describes as the best in form — 
he has ever seen. Nothing is said as to its origin. Had it appeared as? — 
wild plant it would probably have passed as a very fine round form of 
O. crispum, but from the broad obtuse sepals and petals, a slight tendency ; 
to be pandurate in the-lip, the shape of the side lobes of the crest, and the 
broad, slightly crenulate column wings, we believe that O. Pescatorei is 2 
some way concerned in its ancestry, and therefore provisionally refer it  — 
O. X armainvillierense. Among existing varieties it is most comparable q 
with the variety inornatum. The petals have an expanse of 3} inches, and | 
are themselves an inch and a half across, while the sepals are an inch ane — 
a sixth across. The colour is pure white, with three red-brown blotches 09 — 
the dorsal sepal, and about five on the lateral, the petals unspotted, and 
the lip with a pair of confluent blotches in front of the yellow crest. There ; 
are some minute purple dots on the basal margin of the lip. Whatever its 
origin it is very beautiful. ‘ “os 
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