BIGENERIC ORCHID HYBRIDS. 157 
column, the pollen-parent in the middle, and the hybrid (or 
result) in the right-hand one :— 
Seed-parent. Pollen-parent. Hybrid. 
Phaius. Calanthe. Phaius. 
Ancectochilus. Goodyera *. Ancectochilus. 
Goodyera*. Ancectochilus. Goodyera. 
Cattleya. Lelia. Cattleya (in one case). 
Cattleya. Lelia. Lelia (in four cases). 
Lelia, Cattleya. Lelia. 
Cattleya. Sophronitis. Lelia. 
The result obtained from a study of the above Table is some- 
what curious. If Phaius be crossed with Calanthe, a Phaius is 
the result; though we have no example of what would happen 
were the cross effected the reverse way. The next two cases, 
however, supply this deficiency, as Goodyera and Anectochilus 
may be crossed either way, the result depending entirely on 
which way the cross is effected. 
Thus far the influence has been on the side of the seed-parent, 
a result with which Lelia crossed with Cattleya also agrees. But 
when the cross is effected the reverse way, Lelia becoming the 
pollen-parent, the result is in one instance a Cattleya, but in no 
less than four others a Lelia. So that the influence is now 
transferred to the side of the pollen-parent. But in the last 
case the result is yet more remarkable. If Cattleya be crossed 
with Sophronitis, the hybrid product belongs to neither of the 
parent genera, but to yet a third, namely, Lelia. 
One case included in the above deserves a closer examination. 
Cattleya Mossie (a form of C. labiata) crossed with Lelia pur- 
purata is reported to have produced at one time Cattleya eaoni- 
ensis x , Reichb. f., and at another Lelia Canhamiana X , Reichb. f. 
It is only fair, however, to add that in the former case the 
parentage was not so carefully recorded as in the latter, leaving 
perhaps a slight possibility of some mistake t. 
* The plant in question is the old Goodyera discolor, Ker, now Hemaria 
discolor, Lindl., and not a true Goodyera. But it generally Goes under the 
old name in gardens; and for the purpose of this Table it is convenient to 
retain the name under which the hybrids were described. Later in this paper 
it is mentioned under its true name. 
f Ihave it on the authority of the Messrs. Veitch that the pedigree of some 
of their early hybrids was not so carefully recorded as it has been in more 
recent years. 
