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Tooting, I believe for the first time in Europe. It had been sent to them 
from Manilla by Mr. Cuming, in 1837.” 
Ten years later the Malayan species appeared in cultivation, nearly a 
century after its original discovery, and Lindley, instead of detecting his 
mistake, actually described it as a new species, under the name of 
Phalznopsis grandiflora (Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 39). He remarked :—‘‘ A 
small plant of this noble Epiphyte was exhibited on the 7th of September 
in the last year, by J. H. Schréder, Esq., of Stratford Green, when it 
received the Silver Banksian Medal. It was not supposed at that time to 
be a distinct species from the well-known Phalznopsis amabilis, but was 
regarded merely as a fine variety. Upon a comparison of it with the 
Manilla species it proves to possess so many points of difference that no 
doubt can be entertained of its being really distinct. . . . We under- 
stand that the large flowered Phalzenopsis is a Java species, imported by 
Messrs. Veitch.” 
In 1862 Lindley’s error was pointed out by Reichenbach (Hamb. Gartenz. 
1862, p. 35), when the new name P. Aphrodite was proposed for the 
Philippine species, but by this time the plants had become so well known 
under the erroneous names, and had been so frequently figured, that it 
proved extremely difficult to rectify them, though the correct names have 
now been at least partially adopted. The latest development has already 
been mentioned. 
It is rather widely diffused, having been found in North Borneo, 
Celebes, and south-east New Guinea, as well as in Java and the Moluccas, 
as previously mentioned. R. A. R. 
BRITISH HYBRID OPHRYSES. 
THE discovery of the Ophrys X hybrida in Kent, about the end of May, 
1905, awakened a large amount of local interest, and the result has been 
followed by the detection of five more examples during the present year, two 
of them by the original discoverers, Messrs. Walker and Harris. Flowers 
of each of these are sent, and one has a more entire lip than the specimen 
sent last year. Two others are said to have been found bya student at Wye 
College, and a photograph of a fifth has been sent by Mr. W. H. Hammond, 
of Canterbury, who remarks that the spike was brought to him by a working 
man. 
Mr. Hammond also sends a spike of another very interesting hybrid, re- 
marking that it looks like a cross between O. apifera and O. arachnites, 
which grow close together in the locality where he found it. All three are 
. Included in a photograph also sent. 
It is a particularly interesting development, for this hybrid was recorded 
