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and bearing numerous flowers, with spreading sepals and petals, greenish- 
white in colour, and closely dotted with brownish purple, and the spathu- 
late lip purple, with a yellow apex. The specific name refers tothe muricate 
roots, which recall those of D. mutabile, Lindl. It is a distinct and 
striking plant. R.A.R. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A PARTICULARLY large and handsome Cattleya is sent from the collection 
of John Leemann, Esq., West Bank House, Heaton Mersey, by Mr. Smith. 
It was raised by Messrs. Duchesne, Lanthoine & Co., from C. 
Lueddemanniana (speciosissima) and C. X Hardyana, and thus will be a 
form of C. X Thurgoodiana (O.R., xi. p. 246). The flower is excellent in 
shape, and measures eight inches from tip to tip of the broad rose-purple 
petals, while the lip is rich crimson-purple in front, with an orange yellow 
throat. It is flowering for the second time this year. A curious reversion 
of Odontoglossum crispum isalso sent. It was obtained by crossing the 
handsome O. c. Cooksoni (of which a good flower is sent) with O. c. 
Perfection, a very round and heavily blotched form which was described at 
page 24 of our thirteenth volume. The seedling may be described as an 
ordinary white form, with a red-purple blotch on the lip. It is the second 
seedling of the batch to bloom, and the first is said to have had spotted 
petals. It is another example of a phenomenon with which we are now 
becoming familiar, and we should not be surprised to see a few well-blotched 
flowers among the seedlings. We wish Mr. Smith would dry a single flower 
of each, with one of the parents, and forward them when the series is 
complete. They are quite easily dried in blotting paper after just cutting off 
the pedicel. 
Flowers of two handsome Cattleyas are sent from the collection of 
Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking, by Mr. Hopkins. C. xX 
Rothschildiana Westfield var. has light mauve-lilac sepals and petals, and 
the throat and disc of the lip orange yellow. C. x Empress Eugenie 
(C. X Pittiana X Dowiana aurea) is a very large flower, having broad lilac. 
sepals and petals, and the lip strongly three-lobed, with ample rounded 
side lobes, and a broad undulate purple-crimson front lobe, with some deep 
yellow in the throat. They are seedlings flowering for the first time. 
Several interesting flowers are sent by His Honour Judge Philbrick, 
Bodorgan House, Bournemouth. There is a magnificent spike of Cattleya 
x Appletoni (elongata X Dowiana aurea), measuring twenty inches long 
and bearing five very richly coloured flowers, with sepals and petals of a 
rich bronzy yellow, and the front lobe of the strongly three-lobed lip rose- 
purple, and very broad, with some yellow in the throat. The bulbs are 
said to be nineteen inches long, and two-leaved. Paphiopedilum xX gigas 
