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day, is sent from the collection of Sir Frederick Wigan by Mr. Young. 
The flowers are large, with petals over 1} inches broad, and the colour 
lilac, with a zone of dark purple round the throat of the lip. 
Two beautiful light forms of Dendrobium Phalznopsis with very large 
flowers are sent from the collection of General Gillespie, Brynderwen, Usk, 
by Mr. Jennings. One may be described as lilac-rose, and the other as 
light rose purple. In each case the lip is slightly darker. It is remarkable 
how wide a range of colour variation is seen in this species. A good flower 
of Cattleya Dowiana aurea from a plant imported last spring is also sent. 
The difficulty of raising hybrids between Paphiopedium niveum and P. 
barbatum has more than once been alluded to in these pages, but we learn 
that a seedling is now in bud in the collection of F. M. Burton, Esq., 
Highfield, Gainsborough. Whether it shows the true hybrid character 
or not we cannot say, but, if so, it will be a form of P. X Tautzianum. 
A very pretty form of Odontoglossum x Andersonianum has appeared 
in the collection of H. H. Noble, Esq., of Liverpool, among some imported 
O. crispum from Messrs. Cowan. The flowers are clear sulphur-white with 
a few deep red-brown spots, chiefly on the sepals. 
Another seedling from Cattleya Loddigesii (violacea) crossed with Lelia 
purpurata has flowered in the collection of T. W. Thornton, Esq., Brock- 
hall, Weedon, of which we have received a two-flowered inflorescence. It 
jsa form of Lzlio-cattleya x Sallieri, of which L.-c. x weedoniensis, inad- 
vertently described at page 5, is also a variety. It is from the same cross 
as the one just mentioned, but has lilac-coloured sepals and petals, and the 
front lobe of the lip veined with purple. 
A fine bloom of Paphiopedium x Niobe is sent from the collection of 
Reginald Young, Esq., of Sefton Park, Liverpool, the dorsal sepal being 
nearly 23 inches broad. The combination of P. Spicerianum with P. 
Fairrieanum produces a very charming effect, and Mr. Young remarks that 
it is one of his favourites. 
A flower of the very richly-coloured Paphiopedium x Clotho (P. x 
politum @ xX P. Boxallii atratum g)isalsosent. It most resembles the 
pollen parent in shape and the very dark colour of the dorsal sepal, but the 
combined influence of P. barbatum and P. venustum in the seed parent has 
imparted to the petals and lip a rich, bronzy purple colour which renders it 
one of the most brilliantly-coloured hybrids of this affinity. It first flowered 
in 1895. , 
Respecting the figure of Odontoglossum crispum Prince of Wales 
