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on the sepals and petals, while the violet-colour has gone from the lip, 
which is lined throughout with confluent lines of deep brown spots, rather 
more scattered on the front lobe. The lip is slightly denticulated, but not 
fringed. Mr. Black remarks that it has been something like eight years 
in reaching the flowering stage. 
DENDROBIUM X AusSTINU.—A richly-coloured hybrid, raised in the 
same collection as the preceding, from D. X Cybele nobilius and the form 
of D. xX Ainsworthii known as splendidissimum illustre, and is thus 
composed of half D. nobile and a quarter each D. aureum and D. 
Findlayanum. It is most like a richly coloured D. nobile, having the 
sepals, petals, and apex of the lip deep rose-purple, with a blackish-maroon 
disc. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
Several interesting flowers are sent from the collection of J.J. Neale, 
Esq., of Penarth, and among them five forms of Odontoglossum X 
Adrianz, and two of O. X Andersonianum, which Mr. Haddon remarks 
have flowered out ofa batch of imported O.crispum. One of the former 
has a sulphur yellow ground colour and unspotted petals, with a single 
small blotch on each sepal, and about three others on the front of the lip. 
A second is bright yellow with a few blotches on each segment. The rest 
have a white ground, two being heavily blotched with dark brown, while 
the third has fewer and paler spots. One O. X Andersonianum has a clear 
white ground with a few dark blotches, the other is the variety Rucker- 
ianum, with a rosy ground and very numerous linear spots, which are very 
nearly absent from the lip. A beautiful pure-white O. crispum with only a 
few spots on the lip is also enclosed, with flowers of O. navium, 
Hunnewellianum, sceptrum, triumphans, Pescatorei, Rossii and pulchellum. 
Mr. Haddon remarks that the houses are now quite gay with Odonto- 
glossums, Dendrobiums, Cypripediums, Cattleya Triane, and Schroedere, 
with numerous botanical species. The plant of Epidendrum polybulbon is 
covered with flowers again this year, and is beautifully fragrant at certain 
times of the day, and a plant of E. Stamfordianum with six spikes is quite a 
picture. Among other interesting things sent may be mentioned 
Masdevallia triangularis, M. x Heathii, Pleurothallis elachopus, Oncidium 
Cebolleta and splendidum, the brilliantly coloured Ada aurantiaca, Lelia ~ 
harpophylla, Restrepia maculata, and Maxillaria variabilis. 
Three very distinct and beautiful flowers of Dendrobium x chessington- 
ense (D. x Wiganie var. xanthochilum Xx aureum), are sent from the 
collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., of Streatham, by Mr. Black. One is 
the typical light yellow form with blackish-maroon disc, a second the 
variety Kingcup, in which the ground colour is deep orange buff, and the 
