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and very richly coloured. It was dedicated to Baroness Schroder, of The 
Dell, Egham. 
The hybrid to which the name of Cattleya x triophthalma was given is 
a beautiful and singularly distinct one. It was obtained from Cattleya 
superba, crossed with the pollen of Lelia x exoniensis, and flowered for the 
first time when eight years old. Two plants only were raised, which are 
now in the collections of Baron Sir Henry Schréder and the Hon. F. L. 
Ames, respectively. 
During 1884 at least half a dozen handsome novelties flowered, five of 
them at the Royal Exotic Nursery, the other in the collection of Sir Trevor 
‘Lawrence, Bart., M.P., who now entered the lists for the first time. 
Calanthe x porphyrea was the first hybrid which flowered in the Burford 
collection. C. vestita rubro-oculata is said to have been the seed parent, 
and C. labrosa the pollen parent. It is one of the handsomest of hybrid 
Calanthes, and the colours are surprising brilliant, considering its parentage, 
if that has been correctly recorded. 
Cypripedium x Leeanum was a great acquisition, and the first hybrid 
from C. Spicerianum, described five years previously. C. insigne Maulei 
Was the seed parent. It was raised by Mr. Seden, and was dedicated to W. 
Lee, Esq., of Leatherhead, then the possessor of a very fine collection of 
Orchids, Singularly enough the name has since been transferred to an 
inferior form, raised from the ordinary form of C. insigne, while the original 
hybrid has been called C. x Leeanum superbum. 
Lelia x Amesiana was a handsome hybrid raised by Mr. Seden from 
Lelia crispa fertilised with the pollen of Cattleya maxima. It was dedicated 
to the Hon. F. L, Ames, of North Easton, Mass., U.S.A. It is a very 
handsome hybrid, in which the characters of the seed parent somewhat 
Preponderate. 
Lelia x bella was obtained by crossing L. purpurata with the pollen of 
the old autumn-flowering Cattleya labiata. It was raised by Mr. Seden, 
but is recorded as having first flowered in Baron Schréder’s collection. It 
'S@ richly coloured and very handsome hybrid. — 
. yptipedium x porphyrochlamys was derived from C. barbatum War- 
istanum crossed with the pollen of C. hirsutissimum, and thus was the 
first hybrid derived from the latter. It is an exceedingly handsome hybrid, 
and was named in allusion to its brilliant purple-crimson colour. Mr. 
€n was the raiser. It is figured in our present issue, P- 105, fig. 7- 
Masdevallia x Gairiana, which next appeared, was derived from M. 
fitchiana crossed with the pollen of M. Davisii, a handsome yee 
flowered Species not previously used by the hybridist. Mr. Seden was the 
“aiser, and the plant was named after Mr. John Gair, of: Falkirk. oe gies 
handsome hybrid with orange-yellow flowers studded with violet papilla. 
In 1885 the occurrence of three more Continental hybrids was recorded 
