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" Disa Veitchii, Hort., is the best hybrid orchid of the year. 

 It was raised by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons from D. grandiflora 

 and D. racemosa, flowering within two years of the time the 

 seeds were sown. We have made the same cross at Kew, 

 besides other crosses between these and D. tripetaloides, 

 and the seeds have germinated freely. It was proved long 

 ago by Dr. Moore, of Glasnevin, that disas can be easily 

 multiplied by means of seeds. I am of opinion that in the 

 three species here named, we have very promising material 

 for the production of a really valuable race of easily-grown 

 cool orchids. 



" Epidendrum Dellense, O'Brien, is a pretty hybrid from 

 E. xanthinum and E. radicans. It originated in the garden of 

 Baron Schroeder. 



" Habenaria carnea, N. E. Brown, has already been noted 

 and figured in Garden and Eorest (vol. iv. p. 475, fig. 76). 



" Lczlia Arnoldiana, Hort., is a handsome hybrid between 

 L. purpurata and Cattleya labiata raised by Messrs. Sander & 

 Co. The flowers are as large as those of L. pur pur at 'a, while the 

 color is that of a richly-marked form of the cattleya. There £{antsin 

 is a good figure of it in the Zindenia, t. 294. L. grandis var. England. 

 tenebrosa is a distinct and beautiful variety, the sepals and 

 petals colored a rich terra-cotta, the lip being crimson, with 

 a broad, wavy margin of white. It also is represented by a 

 good figure in Lindenia, t. 290. 



1 6 Masdevallia Rolfeana, * Kranzlin, is a large-flowered spe- 

 cies in the way of M. velifera, but colored rich chocolate- 

 brown (Sander & Co.). M. falcata, O'Brien, is a hybrid 

 between M. Lindeni and M. Veitchii which promises to be a 

 good garden plant. It was raised by an English amateur, 

 Mr. D. O. Drewett. M. Mundyana, Hort., is a hybrid between 

 M. Veitchii and M. ignea var. aurantiaca, which we owe to the 

 skill of Messrs. F. Sander & Co. 



"Miltonia vexillaria var. Leopoldiana {Miltonia vexillaria, var. 

 Sanderiand), a beautiful variety which I recently described in 

 Garden and Eorest (vol. iv. p. 545), I find has been previously 

 figured and described in Revue de V Horticulture Beige, 1891 

 (page 73), under the name of M. vexillaria var. Leopoldiana, 

 Reichb. f. 6 One of the prettiest and rarest of the varieties of 

 this miltonia is this, which was dedicated by Reichenbach to 



*Annals for 1890, 58. 



