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floriferous, for the seed was not sown until 1885, and four years afterwanis 
one of the plants produced as many as eleven flowers. 
Masdevallia x Ellisiana is a brilliantly-coloured hybrid derived from \i. 
coccinea var. Harryana ¢ and M. ignea ¢, and thus the reversed cross a 
M. x Fraseri, of which it must be considered a variety. . 
Dendrobium x Wardiano-aureum is a very pretty hybrid raised by Mr. 
Seden- from D. aureum$ and D. Wardianum %,: which well combing 
the characters of its two parents. The same cross was afterwards raise 
in the collection of C. Winn, Esq., Selly Hill, Birmingham, as see our May 
issue, p. 137, fig. 9. . 
A Selenipedium flowered in 1889, and was described under the name ¢ 
Cypripedium x robustius, but can hardly be said to represent a ‘nel | 
cross. It was raised from S. x Sedeni 2 and S. longifolium 2, and thus hes 
the reversed parentage of S. x Ainsworthii var. calurum. It was raised by 
Mr. F. Horn, in the collection of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, of Holt 
Warte, near Vienna. 
The remaining hybrids of the year were all Cypripediums, and three a 
them were the work of two new operators. 
Cypripedium x claptonense was the first hybrid raised in the establish 
ment of Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., of Clapton. C. x Harrisianum 
said to have been one parent, and probably C. villosum the other, though! | 
may possibly have been C. insigne. . 
Cypripedium x De Witt Smith was Messrs. Low’s second hybrid, ani 
was derived from C. Spicerianum 2 and C. Lowii ?. It is a bright and | 
attractive little plant. 
Cypripedium x Fraseri was raised by Mr. Fraser, of Derneleuch, fro 
C. hirsutissimum and C, barbatum, and thus must rank as a variety @ 
03 porphyrochlamys (see Pp- Tor, 105, fig. 7), probably from the reverse! 
cross. : 
Cypripedium x Aphrodite is a very distinct and pretty little hybrié | 
raised from C. niveum f¢ and C. Lawrenceanum 4, by Mr. Seden. It 08 | 
resembles C. niveum, though modified in the direction of the other parent: ) 
Cypripedium x T, B. Haywood is another handsome hybrid, raised b | 
Mr. Seden. Its parents were C. superbiens 2 and C. Drurii é, betweet 
which it is quite intermediate in character. et 
C. x Harrisianum superbum and .C. Spicerianum, but it is in 
which was the seed parent. It would appear to be a variety . 
Savageanum. oe 
