NATURAL HYBRIDS OF THE CATTLEYA GROUP. OF. . 
from Rio de Janeiro (“ Gard. Chron.” 1896, i. p. 593). In 1899 an 
artificial hybrid from the same two species flowered in the collection of 
T. L. Mead, Esq., Oviedo, Florida, and proved substantially identical 
(“ Orch. Rev.” 1899, p. 72). 
Lelio- Cattleya x Pittiana (O’Brien in “ Gard. Chron.’’ 1894, i. pp. 264, 
265, fig. 27) is said to have been imported from the neighbourhood of 
Fic. 53.—Cattieya x ‘ Vicrorta-Reaina.’ (Orchid Review.) 
Pernambuco, Brazil, by Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, with whom it flowered 
in 1894. It was remarked that the parentage was conjectural, but the 
characters pointed to the old form of Lelia grandis and Cattleya guttata 
Prinzu (i.e. C. amethystoglossa) as the parents. This would indicate 
Bahia as a likely habitat. (Fig. 54.) 
Cattleya x venosa (Rolfe in “Orch. Rey.’’ 1894, p. 132) was intro- 
duced by Messrs. Linden, of }Frussels, and was described as evidently a 
