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pandurate, with the upper half cream-yellow and unspotted, and the apex 
acuminate. It is remarkably distinct, and as the plant was small and bore 
only a couple of flowers, it is likely to develop into a fine thing. 
Leuia X De GeestianA.—The Marquis de Wavrin, of Ghent, writes 
to point out that Lelia x Mary Colman, exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting 
held on February 13th, and noted at p. 80 of our last issue, has the same 
parentage as the earlier L. X De Geestiana (QO. R. xiii. p. 364), and should 
therefore be regarded as a form of it. This is quite correct, and we regret 
having overlooked the fact when writing the note. The Marquis remarks 
that the cross was raised by him, and was exhibited at a Horticultural 
meeting at Ghent, in July, 1904, under the name of Lelia X De Geestiana 
(after his chef de culture) ; : their a 1 plant was exhibited by Messrs. Sander & 
Sons, at the I ltural meeting at —— last ‘pont and 
that it was figured in the last issue of the Dicti graphique des 
Orchidées. 
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LALIO-CATTLEYA x GOTTOIANA VAR. GILBERTII. 
On November 18th, 1902, a plant from the collection of Francis Wellesley, 
Esq., Westfield, Woking, was exhibited at a meeting of the R.H.S. under 
the name of Lelia Gilbertii, and was noted as a supposed natural hybrid 
from L. tenebrosa, having a flower light rose in colour, with a purple-rose 
front to the lip, and it was suggested that it might be a form of Lzlio- 
cattleya xX Gottoiana (OQ. R. x. p. 367). It has now bloomed again, and 
Mr. Wellesley has forwarded one of the flowers. It can only be compared 
with Lezlio-cattleya x Gottoiana, and as Cattleya Warneri is the only 
species growing with L. tenebrosa that could prodvce such a hybrid there 
can be little doubt that it is a form of that natural hybrid. It differs chiefly 
from the typical form in having a pair of large white blotches deep in the 
throat, the two being separated by about five narrow purple lines running 
down the disc. In the typical form the throat is light purple, not white, 
but, as is usual with hybrids, there is a certain amount of variation, and it 
may be added that the form raised artificially by Mr. Douglas is con- 
siderably lighter in colour than the wild original. It is a handsome 
thing. R. A. RoLre. 
ODONTOGLOSSUMS IN LEAF-COMPOST. 
I FInp that the flowers of Odontoglossums grown in oak leaves and sphagnum 
wither, when cut, much more quickly than do the flowers of Odontoglossums 
grown in fibrous peats and sphagnum. Might I ask if any of your 
numerous readers have an experience similar to mine. 
Worthing. C. B. Lucre-SMitu. 
