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‘habit, and is grown in a 3-inch pot—together with the flower, which, as Mr. 
Wills remarks, is very large and bold for so small a plant, and of more than 
ordinary beauty. The dorsal sepal is ovate, deep ruddy brown below 
passing into light green above with darker veins; the petals of a warm 
pink-purple, with darker veins, and lighter on the lower side; and the lip 
madder brown in front and pale green behind. These modified characters 
are evidently due to the influence of P. superbiens. 
CATTLEYA X MARONI. 
THis is a most beautiful hybrid, raised by M. Ch. Maron, of Brunoy, 
Seine et Oise, France, between Cattleya velutina @ and C. Dowiana 
aurea 3, which was exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, on October 25th last, when the Orchid Committee showed their 
appreciation of it by the award of a First-class Certificate. It combines 
the characters of the two parents in a very pleasing manner, the sepals 
and petals being about intermediate in size and shape, and of a peculiar 
bronzy yellow tint, and the lip three-lobed, yellow at the base, veined 
and tinged with purple-crimson, with the principal veins rather prominent. 
The infloresence bore seven flowers, and the plant appears to have a very 
good constitution. Although greatly modified in size, shape, and colour, 
the influence of the seed parent is very apparent, particularly in the shape 
of the lip, the influence of the seed parent being seen in the enlarged 
sepals and petals, the loss of the spots, and the enlarged side lobes and 
rich colour of the lip. 
STANHOPEA CONNATA. 
Tuis very distinct. Stanhopea, which is so rarely met with in gardens, has 
re-appeared at Glasnevin, a plant which was purchased by Mr. Moore as 
S. Calceolus having just flowered there. The species was originally 
discovered by Warscewicz in Northern Peru, and flowered in the collection 
of Herr Mathieu, at Berlin, in 1854, being described by Klotzsch (Allg. 
Gartenz, 1854, p. 226). It is nearly allied to S. devoniensis, Lindl., but has 
much smaller flowers, and was separated from the species of that group by 
Reichenbach, on account of the lip having only a single articulation between 
the globose hypochil and the mesochil. The flowers have a powerful 
fragrance, like many others of the genus, and the colour is deep buff yellow, 
with some small purple spots on the sepals, some larger darker ones on the 
lower part of the petals, and the sides of the hypochil of the lip thickly 
marbled and spotted with the same colour. Several of these small-flowered 
Stanhopeas are still very imperfectly known. 
pe cet KR. As’. 
