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Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society on August gth, 1892, and now 
flowering for the second time. The sepals and petals are white changing to 
cream-colour, and the lip purplish-crimson, with a lilac blotch at the tip and 
a chrome-yellow base. It is a very pretty and floriferous little plant— 
O’Brien in Gardeners’ Chronicle, June roth, p. 682. 
LA&LIO-CATTLEYA X MAYNARDII. 
A brightly coloured and very attractive little hybrid raised by Mr. May- 
nard in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, between 
Lelia pumila Dayana? and Cattleya dolosa f. It was awarded a Silver- 
gilt Flora Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society, on June 6th last, for 
the best hybrid Orchid not exhibited previous to January Ist of the present 
year. It is quite intermediate in character. The first and third pseudo- 
bulbs are one-leaved, as in the mother plant, and the second and fourth two- 
leaved, as in the pollen parent. It has also the dwarf habit of the former, 
but the flower is much larger and the lip more expanded and not enfolding 
the column, as in the Cattleya. The sepals and petals are rosy lilac, and the 
lip dark purple-crimson in front, but paler behind, and nearly white along 
the disc. The column is white and the anther cap purple. It is a neat and 
elegant little plant.—Gardeners’ Chronicle, June 17th, p. 715, fig. 108. 
OBITUARY. 
WE regret to hear of the death, after a long illness, of John C. Bowring, 
Esq., of Forest Farm, Windsor Forest, which took place on June 2oth, at | 
the age of 72 years. Mr. Bowring was well known as a cultivator of 
Orchids, and one who specially turned his attention to their hybridisation. 
As long ago as 1876 his first hybrid, Selenipedium x stenophyllum, flowered, 
and this was followed by S. x conchiferum, Cypripedium x gemmiferum, 
and Anguloa x media, the first hybrid in the genus, in 1881, and Cypri- 
pedium x amandum in 1884. C. x concinnum, C. x regale, and C. x 
Sallieri Hyeanum were also raised by him. Our own columns furnish 
evidence of his work, in Cypripedium x Leda (p. 114) and C. x Paulii (p. 
147), and a letter from him shows that his interest in the work was main- 
tained up to the last. Cypripedium purpuratum seems to have been a 
favourite with him, as it was one parent of C. x gemmiferum, C. x con- 
cinnum, and C. x regale, and the only two-flowered scape of it which we 
have seen was from his collection. This he considered very exceptional, 
for he remarked that among the hundreds he had seen in its native home in 
Hong Kong he had never seen such an example. Mr. Bowring was the 
eldest son of the late Sir John Bowring, formerly H.M.’s Plenipotentiary in 
China. . 
