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it as identical with C. Krameriana, described by Reichenbach, in 1888, 
as a natural hybrid with this parentage. A seedling from the same 
batch which flowered in May 1891 was exhibited under the name of 
C. Lowryana. Afterwards it appeared that C. fimbriata, which was 
raised by M. Bleu, of Paris, and flowered in 1878, was identical. And 
there is a Cattleya Isabella described by Reichenbach, in 1859, as an 
ally of C. Forbesii and C. intermedia, having characters of both, which 
is probably identical. It flowered with Messrs. Booth & Sons, of 
Flottbeck, near Hamburg. 
In 1893 Anguloa x media was added to the list. It was originally 
raised in the collection of the late J. C. Bowring, Esq., of Windsor, from 
A. Clowesw and A. Ruckeri, flowering in 1881, and seven years later an 
identical hybrid flowered with Messrs. Veitch. It afterwards flowered in 
the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham, among imported 
plants (‘‘ Orch. Rey.,” 1893, p. 40), and as the parents are known to 
grow together one need not feel particularly surprised. 
The following year hybrids of two other genera were added to the 
list, and in much the same way. ‘The first was Calanthe x Veitchii, 
Fic. 95.—Canantue x Verrceuu. (Veitch’s ‘‘ Manual of Orchidaceous Plants.’’) 
originally raised from C. rosea 9 and C. vestitag by Mr. Dominy, 
flowering for the first time in 1859, and afterwards detected in Burma, 
where the two parent species grow together, by Mr. Boxall. The 
latter flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. (“Orch. Rev.,’ ii. 
p- 19). Then came Dendrobium x Rolfee, raised by Messrs. I. Sander 
& Co., from D. primulinum? and D. nobiles, flowering in 1892, and 
afterwards detected among imported plants of D. nobile in the collection 
of Major-Gen. Berkeley, of Southampton (‘‘ Orch. Rey.,” ii. p. 114), and 
afterwards elsewhere. It has since been discovered that D. Pitcherianwm 
was described by Reichenbach in 1888 as probably a natural hybrid 
between the same two species. 
It is not necessary to continue the record further in chronological 
order, but it is curious to note that the nine hybrids already mentioned 
