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macranthum on the authority of old authors, and without any locality, which 
suggests that the record really belongs to the preceding. 
C. Thunbergii, Blume (Coll. Orch. p. 169, t. 60, fig. 2), was based on C. 
Calceolus, Thunb., and is shown with a narrower, more acute staminode 
than C. macranthum, a character apparent in the living plants at Kew, but 
there is a discrepancy in the drawing of the side-lobes of the lip. In the 
living plants, however, the lateral openings of the lip are larger than in C. 
macranthum. There are dried specimens at Kew from three Japanese 
localities, which evidently agree, for the lines of colour can still be traced, 
and the same remark applies to a figure in the Japanese work Somoku Zusetsu 
(xvill. t. 87). It is evident that we must now call the Japanese plant C. 
Thunbergii. We have evidently not yet cleared up the history of these 
eastern Cypripediums. kK.A.R. 
LAZSLIO-CATTLEYA x OLIVERI. 
A Hyprip from the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Teignmouth, now 
blooming for the first time, with a spike of three flowers. In June, 1901, 
Mr. Clark flowered a seedling purchased from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., 
with the record ‘Cattleya citrina x Lelia cinnabarina,’” but in which 
no trace of the citrina influence could be found (O.R. ix. p. 223). Having 
a plant of Lelio-cattleya Schilleriana in bloom at the time he pollinated it 
from the seedling just mentioned, and in due time obtained a capsule, and 
subsequently a few seedlings, one of which, it is believed, has produced the 
flower now sent. In the previous year, however, Mr. Clark had made the 
cross Cattleya Percivaliana Xx Lelio-cattleya intermedio-flava, and there 
is just a slight possibility that the flower sent may be from this cross, 
though Mr. Clark believes it came from the other. The scape is élongated, 
and the flowers about as large as L.-c. intermedio-flava, and very similar in 
colour. The sepals and petals may be described as straw-coloured, and there 
isa slight tinge of pale yellow at the apex of the side lobes and margins of the 
isthmus of the lip. The front lobe is broad, crisped, and purple, with a 
light yellow apex. The column is light purple. There is no trace of the 
colour of Lelia cinnabarina, and had we been told it was a form of L.-c. 
intermedio-flava we should have agreed. Mr. Clark has dedicated it to his 
friend, Mr. W. D. Oliver, author of a work on the Island of Reunion. 
Mr. Clark sends a flower of the L.c. Schilleriana which was the actual 
seed parent, in which the features of L. purpurata and C. intermedia are 
clearly combined, and an old pseudobulb and leaf of the supposed L. 
cinnabarina parent, which chiefly differs in having lost the usual purple 
Suffusion. This latter was re-crossed with C. citrina, and a seedling was ~ 
obtained, which had the usual purple tinge of L. cinnabarina, but it only 
ived for a year. We would suggest that the cross between C. citrina and 
