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a slight tinge of pink in the sepals and petals. The others are Lelia pumila, 
a very large and handsome Oncidium Papilio, Dendrobium formosum 
giganteum, and the rare and curious Denbrobium Ceelogyne. The plants 
from which they were cut are evidently in robust health. 
A very remarkable flower of Disa X Veitchii is sent from the collection 
of E. F. Clark, Esq., of Teignmouth. It grows among a cluster of leaves 
at the base of a shoot, about two inches above the surface of the pot, and 
may possibly represent an arrested spike. The sepals are all united into 
a single ovate concave limb, and the petals cohere by their inner 
margin. The lip is absent, but the column and anther are present, though 
somewhat distorted. It is very curious, and remarkably different from the 
normal flower. 
Mention has been made in these pages on several occasions of ‘Cypri- 
pediums with twin-flowered scapes, and the phenomenon is pretty common 
among strong, well-cultivated plants. Examples of C. X cenanthum super- 
bum and C. xX Ashburtoni# expansum showing this character are sent from 
the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool. The former 
is particularly fine and richly coloured. 
Other flowers included are C. x Barteti, which is a large form of C. X 
Ashburtoniz with very dark petals and lip; C. Charlesworthii superbum, a 
large and richly coloured form, the veins, especially, being very dark in 
colour, C. purpuratum, and C. p. superbum, the latter being a great im- 
provement, both the flowers and leaves being much darker than in the type. 
A beautiful flower of Cattleya x Johnsoni superba is sent from the 
collection of Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, by Mr. Young. 
It is much larger than the original, the petals being three inches long. The 
colour is bright rose-pink, with a large light yellow area in front of the lip’s 
disc. 
A good flower of Cattleya elongata is sent from the collection of H. A. 
Smith, Esq., Helmshore, near Manchester, from a plant which has been in 
the collection four or five years, but has not flowered before. The plant is 
probably weak, having now produced but one flower, on a scape about a foot 
long. No one, so far as we have heard, has grown it in anything like its 
native vigour, or with the ten-flowered scape seen in the original specimen. 
_ The old Cattleya labiata is now flowering very profusely everywhere, 
_and shows much variation in colour. A very richly coloured flower is sent 
from the collection of R. B. Macbean, ti of Lancaster, which, like many 
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