EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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we are indebted to the editor of the Journal of Horticulture, 

 is among the latest productions of the hybridist's skill, being the 

 result of a cross effected in the collection of Norman C. Cook- 

 son, Esq., of Wylam-on-Tyne, between P. Wallichii and P. 

 tuberculosus, the former being the seed parent. The plant 



Fig. 40. — Phaius Cooksoni. 



exhibited was remarkable for its salmon-coloured sepals and 

 petals flushed with pink. The large funnel-shaped lip has a 

 bright yellow throat, on each side of which are blotches of dark 

 red on a tawny-coloured ground. The other hybrid Phaius 

 which have been raised are P. inquilinus and P. irrorata in 

 1867, and P. Sedeniana in 1888, to which may be added Thunia 

 Yeitchiana in 1885. 



