382 | . F. Fedde. 
The small, narrow standards are dark, blackish-red, widening at the top, 
with à characteristic outward curve, whilst the styles are of a somewhat 
lighter shade of red, especially at the edges. In one respect this Iris 
differs from all other forms of I. reticulata, namely, in having spathes 
that are veined and blotehed with red-purple. In other varieties the 
spathes are either green or colourless, but in this case it is hard to 
distinguish the spotted spathes from the similarly spotted tube. 
Asia minor: Marash. 
. 85. Epicattleya Wolteriana (Epidendrum aurantiacum c? X Cattleya 
Schraderae $) Krünzlin, |. c., p. 274. 
This hybrid is a medium-sized plant of no striking peculiarities in 
habit, The pseudo-bulbs are about a span high (15—17 cm) one-leaved; 
the leaves oblong, blunt, of the same length, and 3—3,5 cm wide. The 
spikes in the two specimens I have seen are two-flowered; the pedicels 
are 6 cm (about 2!/, inch.) long, pale green, with or without a darker 
somewhat purplish hue. The flowers are 7—7,5 cm (3 inches) in dia- 
meter, and in the two flowering specimens I examined, two varieties 
differing somewhat in size and colour were to be observed. The sepals 
are lanceolate, acute; the petals are oblong or rhombic, thrice as wide 
as the sepals and a little shorter. The lip is entire without any trace 
of division and funnel-shaped. The colour of the bigger flowers is ex- 
actly what we call salmon colour, the smaller have the same ground 
colour, but there is à purplish hue upon the whole flower, especially on 
the sepals and the border of the lip. In the purely salmon-coloured 
form the lip has two mauve-purple stripes on its base, and the column 
has also two stripes of the same colour and a corresponding mauve- 
purple sign at its base, whilst the other form (tbe smaller with the 
purplish hue) has no trace either upon the lip or colum, the latter being 
pure white. 
It is a question whether such a hybrid should be described as bi- 
generic. Epidendrum aurantiacum is one of the species so near Cattleya 
that Reichenbach, in the sixth volume of Walper's Annals, placed the 
plant among the true species of this genus, for evidently no better species 
he could find for connecting together Cattleya and Epidendrum. Never- 
theless, it is better to follow precedent, especially in questions of no 
#ystematical but merely horticultural interest, and therefore I keep Catt- 
leya distinct from Epidendrum. For this reason I have adopted the generic 
name Epicatileya. 
The plant was raised by Mr. Paul Wolter, Magdeburg, Wilhelm- 
stadt, from tbe parents. 
86. Dendrobium Sanderae Rolfe, 1. c., p. 374, fig. 163. 
Caules elongati, infra medium paullo incrassati, 40—80 cm alti, foliosi, 
striati, internodi 2—2,5 cm distantes, Folia oblonga vel elliptico-oblonga, 
apice minute biloba, 4—5 cm longa, circa 1—1,5 cm lata. Racemi late- 
rales, prope apicem ramorum producti, 1,5 —2,5 cm longi, 8—4-flori, basi 
vaginis ochreatis brevibus obtecti. Bracteae late ovato-oblongi, subacuti, 
