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flower opening a fortnight later than the other, under the influence of more 
sunshine. Another flower from the same cross is a very beautiful example 
of the typical form. D. xX Cybele giganteum is a well known and very 
beautiful hybrid, and D. barbatulum, a South Indian species with graceful 
racemes of white flowers. 
A very beautiful Odontoglossum Pescatorei album is sent from the 
collection of W. Waters Butler, Esq., of Edgbaston, Birmingham. It is a 
true albino, with a pure white flower, the disc deep yellow, and without 
purple markings. 
An enormous flower of Angraecum sesquipedale is sent from the collec- 
tion of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Burford, Dorking, by Mr. White, who 
remarks that he does not remember to have seen so large a flower before. 
The lateral sepals measure slightly over 44 inches long. The spur is not 
abnormal, measuring 104 inches long. 
A very fine form of Paphiopedilum niveum is sent from the collection of 
E. D. Bostock, Esq., Holly House, Stone, and is one of the finest we have 
ever seen. There are a few very minute purple dots at the base of the 
petals. It came out of a recent importation of Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
A. flower of Odontoglossum xX harvengtense, a natural hybrid between 
O. crispum and O. triumphans, is sent from the collection of D. L. Thorpe, 
Esq., Etterby Scaur, Carlisle. It was purchased as an unflowered O. 
crispum. The spike bears eleven flowers. 
Two very pretty hybrid Odontoglossums are sent from the collection of 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham Hill. O.xErnestii is a very pretty hybrid 
from O. triumphans x Adrianz, which was described at page 198 of our 
last volume. It is fairly intermediate in shape, and the ground colour 
yellow, and very regularly blotched all over with red-brown. The lip is whitish, 
with a yellow crest, and a deep brown blotch in front. The other is O. x 
Terpsichore, derived from O. Pescatorei X Kegeljani (polyxanthum), and is 
a very pretty light yellow flower, with a dark red-brown blotch in front of 
the crest of the lip. The column wings are round and entire. It is 
comparable with O. x waltonense in general character. 
A flower of the rare and beautiful Oncidium tetracopis is sent by Messrs. 
Stanley & Co., Southgate. The plant is said to be bearing upwards of 120 
flowers. The species belongs to the O. macranthum group, having long 
twining racemes, and was described by Reichenbach in 1873 (Gard. Chron. 
1873, p. 915), from driedspecimens collected by Senor Baldeviama, and sent 
to the late Mr. William Bull, the author compares it with O. cryptocopis, 
Rchb. f. The flowers are large, the sepals light brown with a narrow 
yellow crisped margin, the petals darker on the basal half and yellow at the 
apex, being also elegantly crisped, while the three-lobed fleshy purple lip 
has a whitish crest, shaded with light purple, and some yellow behind. 
