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evidence of its descent, combining well the characters of the two parent 
species. The dorsal sepal is broadly ovate, over two inches across, and the 
ground colour very light with about twenty-five purple-brown stripes. The 
petals are spreading, three and three-quarter inches long by over three- 
quarters of an inch broad, spotted almost to the apex with purple-brown on 
a very light ground, and beautifully ciliate with long hairs. The lip is two 
and three-quarter inches long, by seven-eighths of an inch broad, and 
suffused with purple-brown in front, while the staminode is nearly orbicular, 
with a pair of acute teeth at the apex, reticulated with green in the centre, 
on a very light ground, and very pubescent. The leaves show much of the 
influence of the pollen parent, from which also the longer two-flowered 
Scape, longer more spreading petals, and more elongated lip are derived. 
It has the vigorous habit of C. Rothschildianum, from which we anticipate 
a series of brilliant hybrids in the near future. The present one is certainly 
a plant of sterling merit. 
LZLIO-CATTLEYA X PARYSATIS. 
Cattleya Bowringiana is an extremely promising plant for the hybridist, 
being both free growing and very floriferous. At p. 144 we gave an 
account of a very handsome hybrid raised between it and C. Warscewiczii 
by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, and now another must be 
added to the list. In the present instance Lelia pumila was the pollen 
parent, and its influence is very marked. A note from Mr. Seden says that 
the seed was sown in 1888, and the first flower was produced in 1893. 
The plant is about six inches high, and has six pseudobulbs, four of which 
are diphyllous, like the Cattleya parent. The flowers are about inter- 
mediate in shape, the petals two inches long by one and a quarter broad, 
and the lip open, as in the Lelia parent, though it becomes more convolute 
as the flower becomes old, in which is seen the influence of the other 
parent. The sepals and petals are of a beautiful bright rose-purple, and the 
front half of the lip deep magenta-purple, with a pale throat. It is a very 
charming little plant. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x NANDII. 
This is the very pretty hybrid from the collection of R. I. Measures, 
Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), which received an 
Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society on September 11th. 
It was obtained from C. callosum 2 and C. x Tautzianum g, and is fairly 
intermediate in character. The dorsal sepal is two and a quarter inches 
broad by two inches long, and the disc veined with light green, which 
‘Passes into feathered purple nerves before reaching the margin, which itself 
_ iswhite. The petals are two and a half inches long by three quarters of an 
inch broad, the base light green, the remainder suffused with light rosy 
