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glossum parent has served to modify both the shape and colour of the hybrid 
without leaving any very distinct trace of its own individuality, which is 
rather curious. The flower is most comparable with that of the Cochlioda 
parent, but it is larger, and the segments are relatively broader and have 
more substance, while the colour may be compared with that of a brightly 
coloured Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana. It measures two inches across its 
broadest diameter, but will evidently become larger as the plant gains 
strength. At present the plant is small, and has produced a spike of five 
flowers only. The sepals and petals may be described as claret-purple, the 
latter being slightly undulate, and the lip bright purple, with a yellow crest, 
which breaks up in front into five or six acute teeth, this being all that 
remains of the spiny crest ofthe pollen parent. The lip is nearly free from 
the base, and diverges from this point, while the column wings are narrow 
and entire. The stigma is fairly intermediate in character, being confluent 
in the centre, but constricted above and below, so as to show the greater 
part of the outline of two distinct lobes. A flower has been kindly sent by 
Mr. Thwaites, who remarks that the first bloom expanded exactly three 
years from the time of sowing the seed. He thinks that the rich colour of 
the flower will be exceedingly useful for hybridising purposes, and that apart 
from its beautiful colour, it is interesting on account of the intermediate 
character of the stigma. It is certainly a very promising acquisition. 
L&LIA X RoGeERsiI.—An interesting little hybid, raised in the collection 
of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury (gr. Mr. Rogers), derived from 
L. Cowanii and L. Dayana. The flowers are larger than in the former, 
and suffused with reddish purple, with the disc of the lip deep yellow, and 
the apex and margin dark purple. The seed was sown about three years 
ago, and the plant is flowering while still small, and will probably improve 
as it gets stronger. 
BLETIA COCCINEA. 
A very distinct and interesting Bletia has just flowered at the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, which, Mr. Lynch remarks, was collected in Mexico by 
Dr. Gadow, of Cambridge. On comparison it proves to be Bletia coccinea, 
a species described in 1825 (Llav. et Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr., ii. p. 18), and 
which does not appear to have been figured or previously cultivated. It is 
about two feet high and has the typical Bletia habit, shape, and floral 
structure. The lip is deeply three-lobed in the middle, with ample rounded 
side lobes, and a narrow front lobe somewhat dilated in front, with three 
keels, which are suddenly elevated in front. The sepals and petals are 
rather over an inch long, and orange yellow, and the yellowish lip is closely 
veined with purple on the side lobes. The only species with which it can 
be confused as regards colour is the allied B. fulgens, Rchb. f.—R. A. R. 
