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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[February, IQ14. 



Congo or Angola. The new species chiefly 

 belong to the genera Bulbophyllum, 

 Polystachya, and Angrascum." 



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Orchids at Roby Hall, Torquay. — 

 Two beautiful varieties of Cattleya Trianee 

 come from Sir John Edwards-Moss, Bart., 

 who recently obtained some imported plants 

 from Messrs. Sander and Sons. The first is a 

 large and bold flower of delicate mauve, the 

 petals having an attractive venation of light 

 rose ; the lip is broad, finely crimped round 

 the margin, and with the front lobe entirely 

 covered with purple. The second flower, 

 though not so large, is even more di.stinct 

 from the usual type, being much darker, with 

 broad, almost orbicular petals, and much 

 purple-crimson round the entire margin of the 

 labellum. The whole of the throat is marked 

 with purple lines, suggesting the influence of 

 another species, which, however, is not the 

 case, for it cannot be anything else than C. 

 Trianse, and of that a most unusual variety. 

 Mexican Ljelias are also favourite Orchids at 

 Roby Hall, and of these Sir Tohn remarks : — 

 " I have never seen such a year for La?lia 

 anceps. I have a small plant (white variety) 

 with two spikes, one with five, the other with 

 six blooms, while the common L. anceps are 

 coloured as if they were special varieties, 

 almost worthy of special nomenclature, but T 

 know them of old, and they are quite ordinary 

 except in this year, which I therefore think 

 must be exceptional for them." 



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BrassO-CattLEYA St. Alban.— A photo- 

 graph of this interesting hybrid between B. 

 Digbyana and C. Schilleriana comes from Mr. 

 E. Baxter Cox, of Adelaide, South Australia, 

 who remarks: — "This bigeneric hybrid has 

 thick, leathery, olive-green sepals and petals 

 slightly flushed and veined mahogany. Lip 

 very large, white veined with pale magenta 

 and deeply fringed. The side lobes are very 

 highly developed. The narrow isthmus of the 

 lip, so characteristic of C. Schilleriana, is 

 coloured yellow. The flower measures six 



inches across. The whiteness of the lip is due 

 to the fact that C. Schilleriana alba was used." 

 This latter variety is very rare, and was 

 figured by Reichenbach in his Xcnia 

 Orchidacea. In this the flower is shown with 

 a white lip having rose veining. Mr. Baxter 

 Cox has applied the name Adelaide to his 

 distinct variety. The first record of this 

 hybrid is in September, igo8, when it was 

 flowered by Messrs. Sander and Sons and 

 named B.-C. St. Alban. 



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Cypripedium Hitchinsle. — An excellent 

 example of this pretty hybrid between 

 Charlesworthii and insigne comes from the 

 collection of Capt. Robert Twiss, of Bird Hill, 

 Limerick. The broad dorsal sepal is white, 

 slightly flushed with rose, the upper part 

 folded and incurved, while on the central area 

 are numerous rose-purple spots. The petals 

 are very characteristic of Charlesworthii, 

 being horizontal, reticulated with brown, and 

 incurved at their extremities. A distinct 

 feature is the yellow tooth on the centre of 

 the staminode. Considered generally, the 

 flower is exceedingly neat and attractive, and 

 although not so large as the more recent 

 productions it forms a useful addition to a 

 collection of these long-lasting flowers. This 

 hybrid is named after a daughter of Mr. A. S. 

 Hitchins, of Clyton, St. Austell, in whose 

 collection it flowered during the year 1899. 

 Ever since then Hitchinsias has remained 

 the popular name for this cross, although 

 seedlings of similar parentage flowered at an 

 earlier period in the collections of Capt. 

 Twiss, Major-General Berkeley and M. 

 Duval, the latter being recorded as 

 Elmireanum, which may possibly be the 

 earliest and, consequently, the correct name 

 from a technical aspect. 



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Cypripedium San- Act.eus.— Cypripedium 

 Leeanum (insigne x Spicerianum) crossed 

 with insigne yields Actaeus, and when this 

 result is crossed once again with insigne the 

 progeny is known as San-Actasus. In the 



