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host of the commoner hybrids need not be enumerated, though some fine 
plants are among them. 
Turning to other things, some sturdy plants of Dendrobium Phalzenopsis, 
D. nobile nobilius, D. Wardianum, and D. x splendidissimum grandiflorum 
were pointed out, also D. x Rolfez and good D. Devonianum. Noteworthy 
among Odontoglossums were the beautiful O. x mulus Statterianum and O. 
triumphans, with many others. A collection of coloured paintings (some 
of them by Mr. Macfarlane) revealed other beauties of the collection, a 
marvellous form of C. Warscewiczii, a large and very handsome form of C. 
Lueddemanniana, a very dark and somewhat flamed variety of Cattleya 
labiata, Lzelio-cattleya x elegans blenheimensis, and many others, some of 
which have already been mentioned. The collection is a rich and growing 
one, as showy varieties and hybrids are continually being added, as well as 
imported plants, so that in a few years time it will probably far eclipse its 
present excellence, except in the matter of culture, on which it would be 
difficult to improve. 
CATTLEYA x VICTORIA-REGINA. 
We had occasion to allude to this beautiful plant at page 7 of the 
present volume, when we threw out a suggestion that it might be a natural 
hybrid between the Pernambuco variety of Cattleya Leopoldi and C. labiata, 
in company with which it grows. Having had the opportunity of seeing an 
authentic plant in the collection of W. J. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, 
Stone, Staffordshire, as mentioned at page 245, we have no longer any doubt 
in the matter. This plant has eight pseudobulbs, two of which are one- 
leaved, as in C. labiata, and two others two-leaved, as in C. Leopoldi, the 
four older ones having lost their leaves. The single leaves are erect, and 
much like those of C. labiata in shape, and the others, though more like 
C. Leopoldi, are also modified in the same direction ; and a similar remark 
applies to their respective pseudobulbs. Even the habit is much dwarfed 
and approaches C. labiata rather than the other parent. It is hardly 
necessary to point out that similar characters are observed in the case 
of all hybrids between diphyllous Cattleyas and monophyllous species of 
either that genus or Lelia, and as the flowers of C. x Victoria-Regina are 
equally intermediate there need remain no longer any doubt of its being a 
natural hybrid between the two species named. We should be glad to hear 
of the existence of any other genuine plant, for we have been assured that 
it is a myth, and have again this autumn received flowers of Cattleya 
Leopoldi which was purchased as C. Victoria-Regina. Its rarity will now 
be easily understood. t 
