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probably from the same source, if not from the original plant at its next 
time of flowering. 
The Kew plant has an ovoid-globose pseudobulb, the new growth being 
produced from the base, and consisting of three leaves, the petioles of 
which are included in the flask-like, semi-transparent, purplish sheath, 
which measures six inches high. The leaves are nearly a foot long, by 
1} to 34 inches broad, plicate and somewhat diverging, and the effect of 
this is that every drop of water which falls upon them is conducted down 
into the flask, the arrangement being that of a tundish inserted in a bottle, 
which keeps the flask filled with water. The scape is also produced from 
within the flask, and is about 18 inches high, and now beginning to flower.. 
The wild specimen sent is rather larger. The segments are about half an 
inch long, and the lateral sepals are spreading, crescent-shaped, meeting at 
their apex, and light yellow in colour. The dorsal sepal and petals form a 
kind of hood, the former being light yellow and the latter purple. The lip- 
is about half as long as the other segments, and light yellow, with three 
brown spots near the apex and two light brown lines running down the 
disc. It is interesting to find the species in cultivation again. 
Govenia utriculata, Lindl., is an allied West Indian species, of similar 
habit, but having white flowers, tipped with yellow (Bot. Mag., t. 4151), and 
although Lindley afterwards made it synonymous with G. lagenophora, his 
earlier opinion appears to be the correct one. R. A. ROLFE. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
EPICATTLEYA PEARL.—A very pretty hybrid raised in the collection of Sir 
Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate, from Cattleya Harrisoni- 
ana @ X Epidendrum ciliare ¢. Mr. Bound, in sending a bloom, remarks 
that it is flowering off quite a small plant. The flower is most like an en- 
larged edition of the pollen parent, though modified in various respects. 
It measures over 3 inches across, and the sepals and petals are lanceolate, 
acuminate, widely spreading, and white, tinged with a very pale delicate 
pink. The lip is 14 inches long, deeply three-lobed, and united to the 
column for over a quarter of an inch at the base. The side lobes 
are enfolded round the column, and diverge somewhat in front, but when 
expanded artificially their outline forms nearly a circle, while the front 
margin is strongly denticulate, or almost fimbriate. The front lobe is 
breadly stalked, much dilated in front, with an obtuse apex and a fim- 
briate margin. The colour of the lip is light primrose yellow. The 
plant is most like a dwarf edition of the Epidendrum parent, the pseudo- 
bulbs being fusiform, and having the characteristic sheaths, but the 
older pseudobulbs are two-leaved. When knowing the seed parent 
One can trace its influence, though it is doubtful if it could have been 
