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Veitch. It is fairly intermediate in character, the flowers being of a 
beautiful rose-pink shade, and borne in racemes of ten to twelve, or more. 
The spur of the dorsal sepal is rather longer than in D. racemosa, but there 
is very little of the spotting so characteristic of D. tripetaloides, while the 
colour of the flowers also most resembles D. racemosa. It is very free 
growing and floriferous, and is likely to become a favourite garden plant. 
So free growing is it that more plants were “raised than could be grown on, 
and some of them were thrown away in consequence. 
Hysprip Disas aT Kew. 
It is astonishing how rapidly the beautiful hybrid Disas have come to 
the front. D. x Veitchii, the first of the group, flowered for the first time 
as recently as June, 1891, and last year a seedling in whose parentage it 
had participated flowered for the first time. A large number of seedlings 
are now blooming in the lobby of the Orchid house at Kew, which were 
derived from four different crosses made in 1891. Two of them flowered 
last year, and were recorded in our previous volume, D. x kewensis at 
p. 212, and D. x Premier at p. 339. The third and fourth crosses are 
identical with the two from which D, x langleyensis, mentioned in the 
preceding paragraph, was obtained, and the seedlings are practically 
identical, though many of the plants are rather lighter in colour and have 
the dorsal sepal more distinctly spotted. In fact, some open nearly white, 
but gradually change to pink. Of the other two crosses, D. x kewensis 
(D. grandiflora 2 x D. tripetaloides ¢) and D. x Premier (D. tripetaloides ? 
x D. x Veitchii $), many plants are also flowering, and, as usual, exhibit a 
certain range of variation, more especially the latter, some of the plants 
having the lateral sepals half free, and others united almost to the tips. 
The two which flowered last year were evidently exceptional, as the great 
bulk of the plants are flowering at the present time. 
MASDEVALLIA X HENRIETTA. 
A very pretty hybrid, which was raised by Mr. Robinson, gardener to the 
late Mr. F. L. Ames, of North Easton, Mass., U.S.A., between M. ignea 
erubescens ? and M. caudata Shuttleworthii 7, was described some time ago 
under the above name (Gard. Chron., 1893, i. p. 740). One raised by 
Captain Hincks, of Terrace House, Richmond, Yorkshire, must evidently 
bear the same name, the parentage being practically identical, the difference, 
such as it is, being that M. ignea Eichardii was one of the parents. It is a 
pretty little plant, fairly intermediate in character, as is apparent from a 
flower and photograph received. The tube of the flower is nearly as broad 
as long, thus approaching M. caudata, while the dorsal sepal is somewhat 
similar in shape, and the tail about one and a quarter inches long. The 
lateral sepals are nearly an inch long, slightly falcate, and the tails rather 
