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Corndean var. is a very large and richly-coloured flower, and a flower of P. 
x Brandtie (lo X Youngianum) is very fine, and has broad, handsomely- 
spotted petals, and a very light-coloured dorsal sepal. The scape was 
two-flowered. There is also a flower of P. purpuratum, which, it is remarked, 
is very floriferous and easy to grow, also a twin-flowered scape of a richly- 
coloured P. barbatum, having the petals well blotched on the lower half, a 
very attractive form. 
An inflorescence of the very rare and interesting Odontoglossum 
prestansis sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, 
Stone, by Mr. Stevens, who remarks that it is the only plant he has ever 
seen. Itis one of the gloriosum section, and is characterised by its long 
acuminate segments, which are light yellow, copiously spotted with brown, 
andits very long cirrhate column wings. It was figured at page g of our 
tenth volume, where its history was given. The inflorescence now sent is 
from the same plant. There are also some seedlings. One from O. crispo- 
Harryanum X crispum Stevensii has rosy sepals and petals with much 
darker blotching, the lip much marbled with brown on a lighter ground, and 
the crest yellow and somewhat spiny. Another is supposed to be from O. 
crispo-Harryanum X Vuylstekei, and is most like the latter in colour, with 
a very broad dark lip, in which the Harryanum influence is well shown. A 
third is regarded asa form of O. X Wilckeanum, and has rosy sepals with 
a few large red-purple blotches, and a few small spots on the white petals, 
while the lip has a large brown blotch in front of the yellow crest. The 
other is a stray seedling, and is heavily blotched with crimson-brown on a 
nearly white ground. They should develop into handsome things. 
A curious twin flower of Oncidium varicosum Rogersii is sent by Messrs. 
Stanley & Co., Southgate. The column is double, and there are two 
distinct lips and twice the usual number of sepals and petals. The reason 
is that the flowers are fused together. 
A very curious abnormal flower of Paphiopedilum insigne is sent from 
the collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., Chardwar, Bourton-on-the-Water, by 
Mr. Page. One side of the lip is completely missing, but there is an 
additional free petal in front, and an additional petal and stamen on the 
side where the missing half of the lip would be. The lower united sepal is 
replaced by a pair of diverging sepals, and the additional median petal is 
placed between them and the normal petals. The back of the flower is 
quite normal, but the lip is entirely broken up, all the parts being free, and 
curiously enough the parts are complete. There are three free sepals, three 
free petals, three perfect anthers of the inner whorl, the normal staminode, 
the staminode which forms one side of the lip, perfect but free, while that 
on the other side is transformed into an ordinary petal. Thus the flower 
has reverted to the normal Monocotyledonous type. 
