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spur about as long as the sepals and petals. It was collected on trees 
near Para, by Martius, and is also in Burchell’s collections. 
C. FILIFORME (Epidendrum filiforme, Swartz Prodr., p. 126) is the 
earliest known species of the group, having been described as early as 1788. 
It is acommon West Indian plant, and was originally found in San 
Domingo, by Swartz, but has also been met with in Jamaica, Cuba, and 
Trinidad. It has copious flexuose roots, and long slender spikes of very 
minute flowers. Angraecum fasciola, Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1840, sub. t. 68, 
and A. Wiegeltii, Rchb. f. in Linnea, xxii, p. 857, from Guiana, must be 
very nearly allied. 
C. MonTEVERDI (Aeranthus Monteverdi, Rchb. f. in Flora, 1865, p. 279) 
is a small Cuban species, collected near the city of Monte Verdi, by 
C. Wright. 
C. PORRECTUM (Aeranthus porrectus, Rchb. f. in Flora, 1865, p. 279) is 
another small Cuban species collected by Wright, having longer racemes 
and broadly elliptical fruit. It has also been collected in Jamaica. 
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THE HYBRIDIST. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X KOH-I-NOR.—Under this name we have received a very 
interesting hybrid from the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton 
Park, Liverpool (gr. Mr. Poyntz), which was raised from P. X cenanthum 
superbum @ and P. x T. B. Haywood ¢, and thus has five species in its 
ancestry, namely P. villosum, barbatum, insigne, superbiens, and Druryi. 
It is the second hybrid raised by Mr. Young in which five distinct species 
are represented, the other being P. X Kubele (X cenanthum superbum ? X 
Youngianum @ ), and it may be interesting to note that the only difference 
in the former is the substitution of one-fourth Druryi blood for one-fourth 
philippinense, the two, however, being widely different. The result is a 
remarkable blend, the hybrid retaining some of the yellow of P. Druryi above 
the middle of the dorsal sepal, and a dark purple median band, traces of 
the P. superbiens spotting in the petals, of the P. barbatum colour, of the 
P. villosum shape and glossiness, with faint indications of the P. insigne 
spotting in the dorsal sepal; but the characters in every case are greatly 
modified and blended. The flower may be compared to a somewhat 
enlarged P. X cenanthum, and the prevailing colour is light purple, with 
some darker spots at the base of the petals, the median band and nerves of 
the dorsal sepal dark purple, and the apex and margin white, with a little 
yellow below the apex, and the base bright green. It bears a general 
resemblance to P. orphanum, in which the characters of P. barbatum and 
P. Druryi are united. 
