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A year later he expressed great satisfaction in finding that the discoverer 
suspected that the plant was a natural hybrid between the species named 
(l.c. 1884, ii. p. 520), a view now universally accepted. 
Cattleya x intricata appeared in 1884, in the establishment of Messrs. 
Hugh Low & Co. (Rchb. f. in “ Gard. Chron.’’ 1884, ii. p. 7), and was 
described as “one of those dreadful uniques, the pride of collectors, the 
dread of poor botanists who have to name them,” and, after pointing out its 
characters, he added: ‘‘ I cannot but endorse Mr.S. Low’s views that it has 
the strains of Cattleya intermedia and Lelia elegans.’ Five years later it 
was sent to Kew from the collection of H. Little, Esq., of Twickenham, 
and an examination convinced me that the parents were C. iutermedia 
and C. Leopoldu, from which it has since been raised by Messrs. Sander 
(“ Orch. Rey.’ 1897, p. 169). 
Cattleya x Hardyana was first recorded in 1884, though without a 
name (“Gard. Chron.” 1884, ii. p. 211). It was described as “an ex- 
traordinary variety, evidently a natural hybrid-between C. awrea and a 
Fie. 51-—Cartieya x Harpyana. (Orchid Review.) 
variety of C. Gigas,’”’ which was then in flower in the collection of George 
Hardy, Esq., of Timperley, Cheshire. A year later the name appeared, 
when it was said to have been purchased as CU. Sanderiana, and that it 
flowered for the first time in 1888. Numerous other plants have since 
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