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pollen of C. insigne Wallacei. It was awarded a gold medal by the Société 
Royale d’Agriculture et de botanique of Gand, in November last. It is in 
reality a large and brightly coloured variety of C. x Leeanum; p. 3, with 
plate. 
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CYNORCHIS GRANDIFLORA. 
Less than a year ago Messrs. W. L. Lewis and Co., of Southgate, were 
fortunate enough to flower the interesting Disa incarnata, Lindl., a Mada- 
gascar species described upwards of half a century before. And now 
another remarkable plant from the same country has also flowered with 
them, probably for the first time in Europe. It is Cynorchis grandiflora, 
Ridley, the largest-flowered representative of a genus closely allied to 
Habenaria. It grows from eight inches toa foot high, and bears two or 
three narrow leaves at its base. The scape is one- or two-flowered, and, 
together with the bracts and sepals, bears a number of large oblong purple- 
brown blotches. The sepals and petals are narrow and connivent, about an 
inch long, pale green, and greatly exceeded by the large four-lobed lip. The 
spur is about an inch and three-quarters long, the apical half somewhat 
swollen and filled with nectar. The lip is very light purple, but both white 
and purple varieties have been described. It grows on damp rocks on the 
highlands of Central Madagascar, at about 4,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. It 
was exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on January. 
17th last, and was awarded a Botanical Certificate. 
Cynorchis grandiflora, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc.,xx. p. 332+ 
CYPRIPEDIUM =x POLYSTIGMATICUM, 
This hybrid has been raised on at least three different occasions, the’ 
Parents being C. venustum and C. Spicerianum. First it appeared in 
the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham ; 
then with D. O. Drewett, Esq., of Riding, Mill-on-Tyne; and now in the 
collection of W. Vanner, Esc., Cambden Wood, Chislehurst. In the two 
latter cases, and probably in the former one also, C. Spicerianum was the 
pollen parent. It possesses an unmistakable combination of characters 
ot the two parent species. The dorsal sepal is veined with green and 
broadly bordered with white; the petals yellowish-green at the base with 
numerous small dusky brown spots anda darker mid-line, the upper part 
reddish-brown, the lip less distinctly veined than in C. venustum, and the 
Staminode tinged with light purple and reticulated in the centre with green. 
It varies a little ; those forms in which the characters of C. Spicerianum 
are conspicuous, being the most attractive. : 
Cypripedium x polystigmaticum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1888, ii. p. 407. me 
Cc. x venusto-Spicerianum, O’Brien in Gard. Chron., 1889, i. p- 394.” ak ct 
