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photograph has been published under the name of C. maculatum (Gard. 
Chron., 1909, i. pp. 26, 27, fig. 19), but it is not Lindley’s plant of that name, 
which is a native of Venezuela, and has larger flowers. C. densiflorum is 
nearer to C. Rossianum and C. peruvianum, but the male inflorescence is 
shorter, and much more dense. As regards habit, shape and structure of 
the flowers, the photograph speaks for itself, and as regards colour it is only 
necessary to add that the female flower is green with an ivory-white lip, and 
the males lighter green with brown spots. The diversity between the sexes 
is remarkable—character of inflorescence, and number of flowers, with their 
shape, size, texture and colour, are so different that nothing short of their 
production upon the same pseudobulb would convince some people that they 
belong to the same species. It is probable that the female inflorescence 
shown weighed more than the male, but this much is certain, one female 
flower was sent with about half the male inflorescence, carrying 23 flowers, 
and the two were carefully weighed on a letter balance, when the female 
flower proved slightly heavier than all the others together. 
It is certainly interesting to obtain both the sexes at the outset, because 
there are several species of which the females are still unknown. In this 
connection Mr. Fletcher makes the very interesting remark: ‘‘ Two plants 
of C. Egertonianum had both forms of flowers on with me this year.” 
| R. A. Rore. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
In connection with the continuation of the Orchid Stud-Book, as already 
outlined, we have received from the collection of Lt.-Col..G. L. Holford, 
Westonbirt, Tetbury, flowers of a series of beautiful hybrids raised in the 
colléction, with full particulars of their parentage, &c., and we now 
place their characters briefly on record. None of them are included in the 
Stud-Book, though a few of them have already been exhibited. 
BRASSOCATTLEYA. X SIREN.—Raised from Cattleya Skinneri @ and 
Brassavola Digbyana @, and received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. 
in December, 1907. The flower is rather larger than in C. Skinneri, and 
bright rose-purple in colour, with a sharply defined pale primrose throat to 
the lip, which is prettily undulate and neatly fringed. It is probably the 
darkest Brassavola Digbyana hybrid yet raised. 
BRASSOCATTLEYA X VESTA.—Raised from Brassavola glauca ? and 
Cattleya Percivaliana ¢, and flowered for the first time in F ebruary, 1908, 
but has not been exhibited. It is much like the Brassavola parent in shape, 
and has rose-purple sepals and petals, while the front of the lip is rich 
crimson, the disc orange-yellow, becoming lighter at the sides, and the base 
of the throat reddish. 
L&@LIOCATTLEYA X ARBACES.—Raised from Cattleya labiata ¢@. and 
