PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



hue of the stems and leaves, the former having a slight tendency to 

 enlarge at the nodes. 



The flowers, on erect stems some 6 in. in length, are yellow, tinged with 

 scarlet on the margin of the trilobed lip. 



EPIDENDEUM x EADICO-STAMFOEDIANUM. 



Orchid Eeview, 1898, vol. vi. p. 198. 



Eaised at Langley from the two species indicated by the name, and the 

 first artificially raised hybrid in which Epidendrum Stamfordianum 

 participated. 



In habit and inflorescence it resembles the pollen parent, E. radicans, 

 and the influence of E. Stamfordianum is clearly seen in the shape of 

 the flowers. 



EPIDENDEUM x WALLISIO-CILIAEE. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xvi. p. 730 ; Orchid Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 14. 



Eaised by Seden from the two species expressed by the compound 

 name, Epidendrum ciliare being the seed-bearer. This singular-looking 

 hybrid has yellow sepals and petals, and a white lip delicately fringed 

 along the margin, with four or five short radiating maroon-purple lines 

 on either side of the deep yellow crest. The influence of the seed parent 

 is seen in the shape of the leaves, segments and the fimbriation of the lip. 



EPIL^LIA EADICO-PUEPUEATA, O'Brien. 



O'Brien in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 61, fig. p. 83; Orchid Review, 1897, vol. v. 



pp. 232, 273, fig. 12. 



A bigeneric hybrid from Epidendrum radicans and Laelia purpurata, 

 the former the pollen plant. 



The hybrid resembles the male plant in habit, having erect, reed-like 

 stems, which produce aerial roots. The flowers are 2 in. in diameter, 

 rich orange-scarlet, with a lemon-yellow lip broadly margined with light 

 reddish-purple. 



The influence of the female parent is seen in the dwarf habit, the 

 nearly entire lip, and in the modified colour. 



EPIPHEONITIS VEITCHII. 



Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. vii. p. 799 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Watson's 

 Orchids, new edit. 1903, p. 348, col. pi. ; Orchid Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 116 ; 

 Diet. Ic. des Orchidees, Epiphronitis, hybr. pi. 1. 



A bigeneric hybrid obtained by crossing Epidendrum radicans with 

 Sophronitis grandiflora, the latter being the seed parent. The two plants 

 used as parents are totally distinct in habit, the one being but a few 

 inches high and the other as many feet. In the hybrid the pollen parent 

 greatly preponderates, but the stems are only about 1 ft. or 1 ft. high. 



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