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thus the first secondary hybrid obtained in the genus. It flowered when 
five years old. 
D. x melanodiscus, said to have the inverted parentage of the preced- 
ing, D. x Ainsworthii in this case being the seed parent. It is very 
elegant, and remarkably different from D. x chrysodiscus. 
D. x chlorostele, derived from D. Linawianum and D. Wesiiiseeniaet but 
it is not recorded which was the seed parent. The stems are described as 
like those of the former. 
A hybrid Lycaste flowered as long ago as 1878, though it received no name, 
and has been previously overlooked. It was raised by Mr. W. Marshall, of 
Enfield, according to the Gardeners’ Chronicle, “some nine or ten years since, 
between L. Skinneri and L. Deppei, and it is, we believe, the second which 
has as yet been flowered.”’ It has since been named Lycaste x hybrida. We 
fail to find a record of any earlier one, and think it must be the first recorded 
hybrid in the genus, and hence extremely interesting, but we fear it has 
since been lost sight of. 
The first hybrid Anguloa appeared in 1881, and this too has been over- 
looked. It was raised in the collection of J. C. Bowring, Esq., of Forest 
Farm, Windsor Forest. Reichenbach named it Anguloa x media, and 
spoke of it as no doubt derived from A. Clowesii and A. Ruckeri. It is 
believed that the plant died soon after flowering. 
(To be continued.) 
SOBRALIA MACRANTHA KIENASTIANA. 
This is a most beautiful variety of Sobralia macrantha, whose flowers 
are of the purest white, with the exception of the throat, which is lemon- 
yellow. Our first knowledge of the plant was obtained from Herr 
Kienast Zolly, of Hirslanden, Zurich, who received from his collector, in 
1885, a Sobralia whose flowers were said to be very large and very white. 
And so it proved, for when it flowered for the first time in Europe in the 
summer of 1889, the flowers were seen to be white, and of the utmost 
purity, though in every other respect quite typical. A very beautiful 
example of the same has been sent to us by R. H. Measures, Esq., of 
The Woodlands, Streatham, under the name of Sobralia macrantha alba, 
which is certainly identical with the above, and though the name is more 
descriptive, we feel bound to adopt the original one. This chaste and very 
beautiful variety is still very rare, though it should ultimately become as 
common as the typical form. We have seen a splendid plant in the col- 
lection of Baron Sir Henry Schroder, at The Dell, Egham. 
Sobralia macrantha var. Kienastiana, Rehb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1888, ii. ps 296. 
