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leaves. The flower is three inches in diameter with rosy purple spreading 
sepals and petals, and the lip much like L. pumila, but the side lobes white 
and striped with purple. Though most like L. pumila generally, there are 
many characters which show the influence of L. anceps. It is very. inte- 
resting, and promises to be a good thing when the plant becomes stronger. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM x MOENSII. 
A plant of this beautiful hybrid Cypripedium, with three flowers, was 
exhibited at the: Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on October oth, by 
T.Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester, and received an Award 
of’ Merit. It may be remembered that it is the plant raised by the late M. 
J- Moens, of Lede, and figured at t- 361 of the Lindenia under-the name of 
C. x memoria Moensii—a name which at page 98 of our last volume we 
proposed should be simplified as above, for reasons which need not be 
repeated here. It is known to have been a seedling from -C. Spicerianum, 
but- the other parent was, unfortunately, not recorded. A careful exami- 
nation of the plant, however, shows so many points of resemblance to C. 
x eenanthum superbum, both in the leaf and flower, as to leave little doubt 
whence the pollen was derived. © It is one of the brightest coloured hybrids 
yet obtained, its bright purple dorsal sepal with dark median band, being 
particularly brilliant. 
CATTLEYA HARRISONIANA, 
An exceptionally fine variety of Cattleya Harrisoniana has just flowered 
in the collection of R. le Doux,-Esq., Marlfield, West Derby, Liverpool, 
from whom we have received a flower, measuring four inches across its 
broadest diameter and the petals over an inch broad. It is flowering for 
the second time after importation and carries nine spikes with over forty 
flowers. The sepals and petals are deep rose-purple and the lip very ample, 
with the very characteristic shape and ridges on the yellow disc which 
characterises this species. It is much the finest form we have seen, and is 
cultivated under the name of Marlfield variety. : 
The history of this Cattleya has been very iach eonbaed. It was 
originally described in the Botanical Register for 1836 (xxii., sub. t. 1919), 
by Dr. Lindley, as Cattleya Harrisoniana, being dedicated to Mr. Harrison. 
It was said to be very near to C. Loddigesii, but to have the lip verrucose. 
Two years later it was figured in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany (iv. p. 247, 
with plate), the name being changed to C. Harrisoniz, with the remark.— 
** We know nothing of the history of this plant, any further than that it has 
