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Phalznopsis x F. L. Ames was another beautiful hybrid raised by Mr. 
Seden, from P. amabilis (Blume) ? and P. x intermedia &, whose ¢haracters 
it well combines. It flowered when a little over five years old, and was 
dedicated to the Hon. F. L. Ames, of North Easton, Mass., U.S.A. 
Phalenopsis x Leda appeared as a stray seedling in Messrs. Veitch’s 
establishment.. Hence its parentage is somewhat doubtful, though it 
belongs to the tendril-bearing group. 
Anguloa x intermedia was raised by Mr. Seden from A. Clowesii 2? and 
A. Ruckeri g, and thus should be a variety of A. x media, which is believed 
to have been derived from these two species. From the description, 
however, it evidently differs in colour. 
(To be continued.) 
LYCASTE SKINNERI ALBA. 
On p. 113 it is stated of Lycaste Skinneri, that “the variety alba 
appeared amongst the first importations.”” Now I think Mr. Skinner first 
introduced this plant in 1841, and many varieties were from time to time 
introduced, but a white one was not seen before 1856, when the first one 
opened with myself, during the time I had charge of the collection of 
Messrs. Thos. Jackson and Sons, at Kingston, and I think it was about ten 
years afterwards that the next instance of its flowering occurred, at Meadow- 
bank, near Glasgow, when the celebrated collection of Mr. Dawson was 
under the care of Mr. Anderson, and it remained a scarce plant for many 
years afterwards. Now it has become a frequent plant in our collections. 
I am quite able to endorse what follows, that it has ever since been regarded 
as a chaste and very beautiful form. 
WILLIAM HuGH GowER, 
[We are obliged for Mr. Gower’s note, which is certainly interesting. 
The remark referred to arose through a slip of the memory. When the 
variety alba was figured in Lindenia (vol. iv., p. 21, t. 153) a claim was put 
forward that M. Linden, and not Mr. Skinner, was the original discoverer of 
Lycaste Skinneri, and that it first received the name of Maxillaria virginalis, 
in Belgium. It was through a confusion of this M. virginalis with the 
variety alba that the mistake arose. Mr. Skinner’s discovery, however, dates 
from 1839, and it was described from dried specimens collected by him as 
early as June, 1840, under the name of Maxillaria Skinneri, as has else- 
where (Reichenbachia, ser. 2, p. 39) been pointed out. But the variety alba 
is figured in Pescatorea (t. 39), which was published in os Se) that its 
second appearance was evidently before the “ten years later mentioned by 
Mr. Gower.—Ep.] 
