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In the establishment of M. A, A. Peeters we noted—a pure white form of 
Lelia albida; Cypripedium x Sallieri Hyeanum with ten flowers; C. x 
Charles Canham; C. x Ashburtoniz expansum ; and a good plant of Odon- 
toglossum aspersuin with ten flowers. 
At the Horticulture Internationale more than 120 species and varieties 
are in flower, including the new Cattleya Alexandre and its varieties 
tenebrosa and elegans; the remarkable Mormodes Rolfeanum, also M. 
buccinator varieties aurantiacum and citrinum; Cirrhopetalums Master- 
sianum and Amesianum: the new Oncidium cristatum; a fine plant 
covered with its graceful racemes of Platyclinis glumacea; Vanda tricolor 
planilabris ; numerous beautiful forms of Odontoglossum, Dendrobium, and 
Cypripedium, including some new hybrids of the latter; and a variety of 
other things. 
CATTLEYA IRICOLOR. 
The origin of this very rare but distinct Cattleya still remains a mystery. 
It was described upwards of eighteen years ago by Professor Reichenbach 
(Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1874, ii. p. 162), on the occasion of its flowering with 
Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea. The only known plant was. acquired at one 
of the Orchid sales at Stevens’ Rooms, where it was sold without a specific 
name and without any note of its origin. It afterwards passed_into the 
collection of Baron Schréder, of The Dell, near Windsor, where it flowered 
last summer. It is a smaller plant than most Cattleyas of the labiata 
group, being under a foot high. The raceme bore three flowers, with cream- 
white sepals and petals just over two inches long, and a cream-white 
lip with a W-shaped yellow marking across the middle, on either side 
of which are several maroon-purple stripes running across the lip in a 
transverse band. The anther case is very singular in shape, being flat on 
the top and much broader at this point than elsewhere. Though much 
larger than C. luteola, it is evidently allied to it on the one hand, and to 
C. Rex on the other. It has been used for hybridisation purposes, as 
©. x Philo and C. x Philo albiflora were both partly derived from it, the 
Parentage being C. Mossie 2 x C. iricolor ¢. Some day the habitat of 
this very distinct Cattleya may be discovered. 
