PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



CATTLBYA x MABSTERSONLZE, Bchb. f. 



Rohb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1878, vol. x. p. 556; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. ii. p. 92. 



Eaised and named in honour of Mrs. Seden nee Marsterson, and one of 

 the first as also one of the most beautiful of the series of hybrids obtained 

 by crossing one of the labiata forms with other species of Cattleya. 



The parents were C. Loddigesii and C. labiata vera. 



CATTLEYA x MELPOMENE. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 315 (Eeport of R.H.S. Orchid Committee). 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya Forbesii and C. Mendelii. The light 

 rose-coloured flower has the lip white tinged with pink and a yellow 

 throat. 



CATTLEYA x MINUCIA. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xii. p. 379 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; Orchid 

 Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 357. 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya Loddigesii and C. Warscewiczii. The 

 flowers resemble somewhat a form of C. labiata, but with distinct 

 traces of C. Loddigesii in the lip. 



CATTLEYA x MIEANDA. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxi. p. 51 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 



Review, 1897, vol. v. p. 80. 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya amethystoglossa (guttata Prinzii) and 

 C. Trianae, the second hybrid in which C. amethystoglossa participates 

 in the parentage. 



CATTLEYA x NIOBE. 



Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxi. p. 280 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; Orchid 

 Review, 1902, vol. x. p. 149. 



Eaised from a cross between Cattleya Aclandiae and C. Mendelii. The 

 seedling is singularly dwarf in habit, and has large wax-like flowers of a 

 rose-colour sparsely spotted with purple. 



CATTLEYA x OLIVIA. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 315 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee). 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya intermedia and C. Trianas : the flower 

 is of a delicate peach-blossom colour. 



CATTLEYA x PHEIDIN^l. 



Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiv. p. 470 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; Orchid 

 Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 363. 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya intermedia and C. maxima; the reverse 

 of the cross which produced, thirty-four years earlier, C. X Dominiana. 



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