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flowers, of a rosy lilac colour, with numerous crimson blotches on the lip. 
It was at once named and described, the description ultimately appearing 
in 1904 (Gard. Chron., 1904, i. p. 387). On February 14th of the following 
year a plant called Cymbidium Sanderi received a First-class Certificate 
from the R.H.S., which has proved to be identical, and the original name ~ 
must, of course, be retained. This plant was discovered by Micholitz, 
being provisionally called Cymbidium n. 1. It was said to be almost 
terrestrial, being found on steep banks, in ravines, among thick grass, 
and growing chiefly in a thick clayey soil—never on trees—and producing 
long spikes of rosy. red flowers (Gard., 1904, ii. p. 141). At the time 
this was suspected to be identical with C. insigne (O.R., xii. p. 280). The 
species has ovoid-globose pseudobulbs, with about ten or twelve leaves, of 
two to three feet long by about half an inch broad, while the scapes are 
erect, and rather longer than the leaves. The flowers are about 3} inches. 
in diameter, with lanceolate-oblong sepals and petals, white, more or less 
tinged with pink, and dotted at the base, while the broad three-lobed lip is 
handsomely blotched with crimson. It was exhibited by Messrs. Camille, 
Freres, at the Liége Horticultural’ Exhibition, in May, 1905, in a group oO 
new plants (O.R., xiii. p. 174). None of the plants exhibited has bornea — 
fully developed spike, but it should be a fine thing when it becomes strong. 
R. A. Re 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x CRISPODINEI. 
WHEN this interesting artificial hybrid was described and figured at page 
241 of our last volume, it was remarked that had it appeared among 
imported crispums it would probably have been taken for a small O. X 
Coradinei of good shape, and it may possibly be that some forms referred to 
O. X Coradinei are secondary hybrids. A flower has been sent from the 
collection of W. W. Butler, Esq., of Edgbaston, Birmingham, which im- 
mediately recalls O. x crispodinei, and may have been derived from similar 
parentage. It was purchased as an unpotted plant from an importation 
of O.crispum. The sepals are over half an inch broad, and the petals over 
five-eighths, while they reach two and a half inches from tip to tip. The 
lip is three-quarters of an inch broad, and relatively much shorter than in 
O. X Coradinei. The sepals and petals are ivory-white, becoming light 
yellow towards the margin, and the latter has two to four brown blotches, 
and the former about twice as many. The lip is very fleshy, white, and 
heavily blotched with brown, and the column wings are small and nearly 
entire, both showing the most unmistakable evidence of O. Lindleyanum. 
It will be interesting to see what the flower is like when the plant becomes 
strong, but at present it is more like O. x crispodinei than an ordinary 
form of O. X Coradinei. R.A. K 
