venience. The interest in this case lies in the fact that 

 without a knowledge of the history of the origin of 

 the plant now described it could hardly fail to be 

 taken for a species of Laelia, so predominant in it are 

 the characters which mark that genus. Though perhaps 

 the most interesting botanically of the forms of Sophro- 

 laelia hitherto produced, it is, partly on this account, less 

 striking from a cultural standpoint than several of the 

 others. The parents of S. Psyche, which was raised by 

 Messrs. Charlesworth and Company at Heaton, near 

 Bradford, and flowered for the first time in their estab- 

 lishment in January, 1902, were Laelia cinnabarina, Lindl., 

 figured at t. 4302 of this work, which was the seed- 

 bearer, and Sophronitis grandiflora, Lindl., figured in our 

 t. 3709. A comparison of our figure with that of the 

 seed parent shows that this hybrid in habit closely 

 resembles a dwarfed condition of that Laelia, the influence 

 of the Sophronitis being only apparent in the somewhat 

 modified structure and colour of the flowers. The 

 characters of Laelia cinnaharina, however, seem dominant 

 in most of its hybrids. The plant figured was presented 

 to the national collection at Kew in 1912 by Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Company, and has thriven well in a 

 tropical house under the conditions suitable for species of 

 Cattleya. It flowered at Kew in February, 1915. 



Description.—^^, epiphytic ; pseudobulbs clustered, 

 oblong-fusiform, 1I-2J in. long, 1-foliate, clothed with 

 membranous sheaths. Leaves oblong, rather blunt, sub- 

 erect or recurved, coriaceous, 3-5 in. long, f-1 in. wide. 

 Scapes terminal, subereet, 2-3-flowered ; bracts subulate- 

 oblong, acute, |-i in. long; pedicels about 1J in. long. 

 L lowers showy, orange-yellow. Sepals and petals somewhat 

 recurved, elliptic-oblong, subacute, f-1 in. long. Lip 

 3-lobed |-1 in. long ; lateral lobes oblong, folded round 

 the column ; mid-lobe recurved, lanceolate, subacute, 

 cnspate. Column clavate, about f in. long. Pollinia 8, 

 waxy, compressed ; two pairs in each loculus, those of 

 the upper pair ascending, of the lower pair pendulous, 

 both pairs united by means of a granular linear process. 



Fig. 1, lip ; 2, column ; 3, anther-case ; 4, pollinia :— all enlarged. 



