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outside, the award being made under the name C. ventricosum. The group 
also contained a beautiful pure white form of the species, which we do not 
remember to have seen before. 
Mr. J. Birchenall, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, sent a plant of the rare 
Schlimia trifida, Rchb. f., a pale greenish form of Bollea Lalindei, and a 
pretty blush-white form of Cattleya Mendelii. 
Mr. J. Robson, Altrincham, sent a pretty little group, containing a few 
good Phalznopsis amabilis Rimestadiana, good plants of Masdevallia ignea 
and Dendrobium nobile, Bifrenaria Harrisonz, and several good Odonto- 
glossums. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
OponTIopA CHARLESworTHu.—A very brilliant hybrid derived from 
Odontoglossum Harryanum X Cochlioda Neetzliana, for which Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co. received a First-class Certificate at the recent Temple 
Show. It is most like the latter in general character, but the flower is 
_enlarged, and modified in shape, while the colour is of nearly uniform ruby 
crimson, with a bright yellow, spiny crest, the usual O. Harryanum ground 
colour and markings being obliterated. The characters of this parent are 
more apparent in the vegetative organs. It is a brilliant acquisition. 
Opontiopa St.-FusciEN.—Another striking Odontioda, raised from 
C. Neetzliana x O. X Adriane, for which M. H. Graire, St. Fuscien, Amiens, 
received an Award of Merit at the Temple Show. It is fairly intermediate 
in shape and size, and the ground colour is yellow, with numerous scarlet 
dots on the petals, and a margin of similar colour, but with very little yellow 
remaining on the sepals. The lip is yellow in the centre, with three blotches 
in front of the crest, and a rosy apex. A flower having the same parentage 
is sent from the collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., of Streatham, but in 
this case the colour is scarlet, without any obvious yellow in the ground 
colour. It is from a tiny seedling, blooming for the first time. 
OpontocLossum X NERIssa.—A charming little hybrid, raised in the 
collection of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. 
Stables), from O. nevium @? and O. crispum 3g, and most like a much 
enlarged and embellished edition of the former. It has retained the 
undulate segments and white ground colour, while the deep red-purple 
blotches are very regularly distributed over the flower. The lip is very 
acuminate, and the crest is yellow, with a trace of side teeth, while the 
column wings are broad and toothed. The influence of O. crispum is 
chiefly traceable in the larger size and broader segments of the flower. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X ANDINELLA.—Another of Mr. Crawshay’s hybrids, 
raised from O. X Andersonianum ¢ and O. Hunnewellianum ¢. It is 
most like O. X Adriane, and had it appeared as a wild plant would perhaps 
