210 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
produced other flower-stems, which were also bearing plants. The wh 
plant was a mass of bloom, the original plant, the children, and the gra 
children, all blooming at one and the same time. There were certainly 
down over the waters, which are tidal. When the tide retires and 
mud is exposed, there is a considerable effluvia raised. The leaves of the 
the Great Nicobar. I quite expected to find it on the large island itself, 
but failed to do so. Indeed, in the Great Nicobar I failed to finda single 
Phalenopsis or any other Orchid of consequence, the Order in this place — 
being represented by plants with miserable flowers, only of interest to the 
botanist, but which I sent specimens of to Professor Reichenbach. Ey 
once measured a flower-spike of this Phalznopsis six feet in length. It isa _ 
plant that has grand branching spikes in its native home, and varies very 
much in the colour of the flowers. [ have seen plants of it of the deepest 
purple, and others white with only a few purple streaks in the sepals. 
(Zo be continued.) 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
MASDEVALLIA x RUSHTONIL. 
SOME considerable time ago Captain Hincks, of Terrace House, Richmon 
Yorkshire, took in hand the hybridising of Masdevallias, and his experi 
ments have been attended with great success. First came M. x Hincksiana 
derived from M. tovarensis ¢ and M. ignea 3, then M. x Stella, from M- © 
Estrada ? and M. Harryana ¢, and thirdly M. x Cassiope, from M. tria 
laris ? and M. Harryana 9. And now two other very charming little hybrids 
have flowered in his collection, one being the subject of the present note. ip 
was obtained by crossing Masdevallia ignea var. Eckhardii with the pollet 
