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remarkably dilated rachis is undulate, and measures over seven inches long 
by an inch and a half broad. It is very heavily blotched with dark red- 
purple on a light yellowish green ground. The flowers are very hairy, dark 
brown in colour, and placed over half an inch apart on each side of the 
rachis. The author compares it with M. maximum, Lindl. (M purpuratum, 
Lindl., Bot. Mag., t. 5936), but it is a far larger species in every respect, 
and the flowers are very different in structure. How the name Megaclinium 
Bufo became attached to the species is uncertain, but a small plant bearing 
this name was received from the Paris Botanic Garden in 1903, and the 
pseudobulbs and leaves agree with the authentic plant so well as to leave 
no doubt of their identity. At that time the vegetative organs of M. Bufo 
were unknown, so that there was nothing to show that the name was 
incorrect. It is the finest species yet known. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
L2&LIOcATTLEYA GoLDCREST.—A handsome hybrid, raised in the collection 
of Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, of Westonbirt, Tetbury, from Cattleya 
Schroederze 2 and Lelia Cowaniig, which received an Award of Merit 
from the R.H.S. on April 2oth last, on the occasion of its flowering for the 
first time. The flower is deep golden yellow throughout, fairly intermediate 
in shape, and over four inches across. 
ZYGOPETALUM X CLARKSONI.—A pretty hybrid from the collection of 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), said to have been 
raised from Z. crinitum and Z. x Clayi. The sepals and petals are dark 
dusky brown, and the greater part of the lip violet-blue, with the crest and 
margin whitish. The flowers are fairly intermediate in shape. 
PHALENOPSIS X ARTEMIS.—Flowers of a pretty hybrid Phalznopsis 
are sent by M. F. Denis, Balaruc-les-Bains, France. It was obtained by 
crossing P. amabilis Rimestadiana with the pollen of P. rosea, and one of 
the seedlings flowered for the first time in May, 1908, when only three 
years old. M. Denis states that the seedlings were grown by M. Noel 
Bernard, who sowed the seeds in tubes in February-March, 1905, and that 
some examples were exhibited at the London Conference on Genetics in 
1906. M. Denis received five small plants, each possessing a single root, 
and they have grown without difficulty. They are vigorous, and the best 
has a leaf of twelve inches long, and carries two racemes with twenty- 
eight flowers and buds. Flowers of two plants are sent, differing some- 
what in the shape of the lip and tendrils. The flowers are much like those 
of P. x intermedia, and are blush pink, with a more rosy lip, and some 
brown spots on the crest and side lobes of the lip. As M. Denis remarks, 
they must be referred to P. x Artemis, raised by Messrs. Veitch. 
