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CATTLEYA x Wurrar. 
Native of Bahia. 
Nat. Ord. OrcutpE2.—Tribe ErripEnDREA. 
Genus Carrizya, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. Ff. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 531.) 
CattLeva X Whitei; pseudobulbis foliisque C. /abiate, inflorescentia 2-flora, 
sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis v. acuminatis apicibus virescentibus, petalis 
latioribus oblongis obtusis undulatis decurvis, labelli laciniis lateralibus 
late triangulis columnam velantibus extus pallidis marginibus reflexis 
lete purpureis, fauce aurantiaca purpureo lineata, terminali reniformi 
rotundata dilatata lobulata denticulata et crispata. 
C. x Whitei, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. ii. p. 586. Warner § 
Williams, Orchid. Album. vol. iii. t. 115. Gartenfl. vol. xxxili. p. 197, 
t. 1159. Veitch, Man. Orchid. Part ii. p. 87. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. 
vii. (1899) p. 292; in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. xxiv. (1900) p. 192. 
C. x Russellianum, Mantin ex Rolfe in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. xxiv. p. 192. 
So great has been the interest shown by Orchidologists 
in the natural hybrid here figured, that I have yielded 
to their wish that it should appear in the Botanical Maga- 
zine, as one of the few exceptions to the rule which excludes 
hybrids in favour of pure species, so long as these are press- 
ing for illustration. Not that it is the only known wild 
hybrid Orchid, for Mr. Rolfe has given mea list of nineteen, 
all of which, including CO. x Whitei, have had their mule 
origin proved, by having been artificially reproduced in 
Europe, and most of them in English gardens. These 
belong to eight genera, five American, Cattleya, Laelia, 
Odontoglossum, Masdevallia and Anguloa, and three Asiatic, 
Phalenopsis, Calanthe, and Dendrobium. a 
A special interest is attached to C. x Whiter, from its 
being one of the earliest of supposed wild hybrid Cattleyas. 
It was discovered in the Bahia province of Brasil by Mr. 
White, collector for Messrs. Hugh Low & Sons, with 
whom it flowered in 1882, when it was described by Reich- 
enbach, who suggested its being @ hybrid between U. 
labiata and OC. Schilleriana. The only objection to this theory 
was, that the Supposed parents were believed to inhabit 
localities some eight hundred miles apart. Some years 
later Mr. Rolfe, investigating the history of OC. x Whiiet, 
Aveust Ist, 1900, 
