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near the apex, and the lip very strongly three-lobed, with the side lobes 
longer and narrower than usual, and tipped with rather light purple. Juno 
is remarkable for having the dark purple of the side lobes extending down 
the throat almost to the base of the lip, the front lobe also being very dark. 
Stella has many little spots in the sepals and petals, and the side lobes of 
the lip rather narrow. Murcia has the petals curiously margined near the 
apex, with short, purple, radiating lines, a trace of the same character being 
also apparent in the petals. Amphion is less strongly three-lobed than 
usual, and the dark purple of the front lobe runs across the truncate apex of 
the side lobes asa purple margin, while the outside of the tube is nearly 
white. One form in flower was much larger than the average, with broad 
petals, though about typical in other respects. Another had no purple at 
the apex of the side lobes, while the sepals and petals were very light in 
colour. One plant was showing three spikes, the best with eight flowers. 
Lastly may be mentioned one curious flower in which the petals were 
apparently absent, though, in reality, confluent with the dorsal sepal, and 
thus presenting quite an unusual appearance. It would be interesting if all 
the different named varieties in cultivation could be compared together in 
this way, for there are many named forms whose characters are very little 
known, and some are probably not distinct. 
Several other interesting Orchids were in flower. Lelio-cattleya xX 
Schilleriana was mostly over, being an earlier-flowering hybrid, but one 
distinct form remained, in which the side lobes of the lip were very well 
developed, but wholly white, like the sepals and petals, while the front lobe 
was deep purple. A fine plant of Odontoglossum coronarium carried a spike 
of thirty flowers. The beautiful Dendrobium Phalznopsis was represented 
by three charming forms, but most of the plants were growing strongly at 
this season and will flower in profusion later on. The rare Houlletia 
odoratissima was throwing up a spike. Many Cypripediums were out, 
of which C. x William Lloyd was the richest in colour. C. x 
tessellatum porphyreum was in bud, and C. X miniatum was a good plant 
Carrying six well-developed flowers. The new C. X selligero-Rothschild- 
ianum was also very fine. We also noted C. X Godefroye and C. x G. 
leucochilum, and Mr. Measures remarked that these came out of an 
importation which yielded also C. concolor, C. niveum, C. bellatulum, and 
several of the intermediate forms which are referred to C. X Godefroyz, 
The importation was shipped from Singapore by Messrs. Walter Kemsley 
and Son, and was purchased entire, as received in the cases, and divided 
with his brother at Camberwell, who also had the same experience with it. 
One other curious feature noted in this interesting collection was half a 
dozen plants of C. insigne, in which the leaves are irregularly variegated, a 
peculiarity for which no adequate reason can be assigned. 
