NATURAL HYBRIDS OF THE CATTLEYA GROUP. 229 
the variety, but I think it does not exist in any other collection. Since 
Mr. Bassett has given up his collection I have obtained his remaining 
plant. In January and February 1868 the three flowered superbly, 
lasting six or seven weeks in perfection. Upon one plant were two spikes 
of five flowers each. The colour is quite as dark as here represented.”’ 
Is the variety still in existence ? 
Lelia x Hyermaniana (Rehb. f. l.c. 1888, ii. p. 91) appeared shortly 
afterwards, also with Messrs. Sander, who suggested LZ. majalis and 
L. autumnalis as the parents, remarking that the latter was seen in the 
same place. It is now believed that L. majalis and L. albida are the 
parents. 
Cattleya x Krameriana (Rehb. f. lc. 1888, ii. p. 323) is said to 
have been imported by M. Franz Kramer, gardener to Herr Rucker-Jenisch, 
of Kleinflotbeck, Hamburg, as a hybrid between C. intermedia and 
C. Forbesti, whose characters it clearly combines. It was afterwards 
raised by Messrs. Sander from these two species (“ Orch. Rey.’’ 1893, 
p- 2). Itis now considered synonymous with the earlier C. x Isabella, 
Rchb. f., described as a species in 1859. C. x Krameriana seems to have 
been the last natural hybrid of this group described by Reichenbach. 
Cattleya x Patrocinu, St. Leger, was the next addition to the list. 
It was described in a Brazilian newspaper, the “ Citade de Rio,’ on 
May 28, 1890, as a natural hybrid between C. Loddigesi and C. guttata 
leopardina. Soon afterwards plants clearly having the same origin 
flowered with M. F. Kramer, at Hamburg, and with M. Peeters, at 
Brussels (‘‘ Orch. Rey.” 1893, p. 843). In 1897 an artificial hybrid from 
the same two species, raised by M. Ch. Maron, flowered in the establish- 
ment of M. Fournier, of Marseilles, and received the name of C. x Gaudii 
(‘Le Jardin,” 1897, p. 310), but it was afterwards identified with the 
above (Rolfe in “Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc.” xxiv. p. 192). 
Lelia x leucoptera (Rolfe in “ Gard. Chron.’’ 1890, i. p. 42, in note) 
was originally described by Reichenbach as a variety of L. x Crawshayana 
(“ Gard. Chron.” 1884, i. p. 577), when it flowered in the establishment 
of M. A. A. Peeters, of Brussels, it being thought then that it was 
derived from LZ. albida and L. autwnnalis. But on further comparison 
I came to the conclusion that LZ. albida and L. furfuracea were the 
parents (“ Orch. Rey.” 1895, p. 46). 
In 1891 a handsome addition appeared, being exhibited at a meeting 
of the Royal Horticultural Society on June 23 by E. Gotto, Esq., The 
Logs, Hampstead Heath, under the name of Lelia x Gottoiana (“« Gard. 
Chron.” 1891, i. p. 793). It received a First-class Certificate, and was 
briefly recorded as “an apparent natural hybrid, with Cattleya labiata 
blood in it.’ I ascertained that it had been imported from Bahia as 
Lelia tenebrosa, but could not find evidence of a Cattleya of the labiata 
group being found there. Two years later, a similar plant flowered in the 
collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham, and this was believed 
to have been imported with Cattleya Warneri, which supplied a clue to 
the missing parent, and the hybrid was described under the name of 
Lelio-Cattleya x Gottoiana (“ Orch. Rey.” 1893, p. 838). The occurrence 
of this second plant, together with the clearing up of the parentage of 
Cattleya x Whitei, supplied a clue to the habitat of C. Warneri, which 
