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yellow veins are confined to a small area near the base. In the colour of the 
petals it recalls certain light forms of Cattleya x Hardyana, especially the 
one called Massaiana. 
MASDEVALLIA X Doris. 
Captain Hincks, of Terrace House, Richmond, Yorkshire, has now added 
to his already numerous successes with this interesting genus. The 
present one is his second seedling from M. triangularis, the pollen parent 
being M. racemosa Crossii. We have received a photograph, together with 
a living flower of the pretty little plant. It combines well the characters ot 
the two parents. In habit it is about intermediate, but the scape is not 
much longer than the leaves, and, at present, one-flowered. In shape the 
flower is most like that of the seed parent, as the perianth is half an inch 
broad and the same in length, while the lobes and tails each measure half 
aninch. The colour is light orange-red, slightly puberalous with minute 
iridescent violet hairs, slightly darker on the nerves. The petals are white, 
with a small brown spot at the base, and the lip white, minutely spotted 
with brownish violet, and with a brown keel-like cushion at the tip. Itis a 
distinct and elegant little plant, and will probably improve, it is only weak 
at present. The seed was sown in August, 1890. A second scape has since 
been produced, which bore two flowers. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X ALLANIANUM. 
This new and distinct hybrid was raised in the United States Nurseries, 
at Short Hills, New Jersey, between Cypripedium Spicerianum ¢ and C. 
Curtisii J. The leaves are broad and short, tessellated with two shades of 
green, the peduncle about six inches high, and the flower of enormous 
size, measuring nearly five inches across the petals. The dorsal sepal is 
broadly rounded, somewhat recurved at the base, and infolded at the apex; 
the lower half of a greenish colour, through which extend lines of darker 
green, the mid nerve purple and the upper half white. The petals are broad 
and spreading, very hairy on the edges, yellowish green at the base, shaded 
with darker green, and spotted with minute purple spots towards the apex. 
The lip is very large, longish, and with a wide opening, the colour greenish 
brown, shaded and lined with much darker green. The staminode is large, 
roundish, and of a beautiful lilac colour. It is well intermediate between 
the parents, the lip being most like C. Curtisii, while the dorsal sepal and 
Staminode rather approach C. Spicerianum. It is named in honour of Mr. 
David Allan, of Boston, Mass., an ardent lover of Cypripediums. © 
CYPRIPEDIUM x EYERMANIANUM VAR. HERMIONE. 
Another form of Cypripedium x Eyermanianum has appeared, this time 
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