ascertained from Mr. Boxall, another collector for Messrs. 
Low, that C. Whitet was a native of Bahia, where it was 
found growing on a tree in company with C. Schilleriana, 
a plant whose rea] habitat had not previously been re- 
corded. 
Up to the year 1899 the specimen described by Reichen- 
bach was the only wild one known in Europe, but in that 
year a re-importation of specimens took place, amongst 
which was the fine one here figured, which flowered in the 
rich Orchid collection of Sir F. Wigan, Bart., D.L. of 
Clare Lawn, E. Sheen, who kindly sent it to Kew for 
illustration in this work. 
For an instructive paper on natural and artificially pro- 
duced hybrid Orchids and other plants, I may refer 
botanists to Mr. Rolfe’s Essay on ‘* Hybridization viewed 
from the standpoint of systematic Botany,” published in 
the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society in April of 
this year. 
It remains to give the diagnoses of C. x Whitei and of 
its parents. 
C. Warneri, T. Moore, ex Warner Sel. Orchid. vol. i. t. 8. 
Floral Mag. 1871, t. 516. C.labiata, var. Warneri, Veitch, 
Man. Orchid. Part II. p. 27; flowers six to eight inches 
diam., sepals linear-lanceolate, petals ovate, three times 
broader than the sepals, lip obscurely 3-lobed, side lobes 
entire, midlobe deeply emarginate. 
C. Schilleriana, Reichb f. in Berlin Aligem. Gartenzett. 
1857, p. 335. Fl. des Serres, t. 2286; Veitch, Man. Orchid. 
Pars il. p. 45; flowers four to six inches in diam., sepals 
and petals similar oblong-lanceolate, lip ovate-oblong, 
deeply three-lobed, side lobes triangular, acute, midlobe 
reniform. 7 
C. x Whitei; flowers six to eight inches in diam., 
sepals and petals most like OC. Warneri, lip most like that 
of C. Schilleriana.—J. D. H. , 
Te 1, —_ ; << 3, pollinium and strap : —Al/ enlarged ; 4, whole 
greatly reduced. 
