HORTUS VEITCHII 



LJELIOCATTLEYA COENBLIA. 



Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiv. p. 692 (Report of E.H.S. Orchid Committee). 



Eaised from Lselia pumila crossed with the pollen of Cattleya labiata. 

 L^LIOCATTLEYA COEONIS. 



Orchid Review, 1901, vol. ix. p. 23 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee). 

 Raised from Cattleya labiata and Laelia cinnabarina. The flowers are 

 copper-yellow in colour with a purple lip. 



LjELIOCATTLEYA CYBELE. 



Orchid Review, 1901, vol. ix. p. 156. 



A handsome hybrid from Laeliocattleya Schilleriana and Cattleya Trianae, 

 with lavender-tinted sepals and petals, a bright crimson-purple lip, 

 primrose-yellow at the disc passing to white at the base. 



L^ILIOCATTLEYA DECIA. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xvi. p. 699, fig. 89; Jour, of Hort. 1895, Feb. 14th, pp. 130, 131, 



fig. 21. 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya Dowiana aurea and Laelia Perrinii. 

 LJELIOCATTLEYA DECIA, var. ALBA. 



Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. xx. p. 667 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; id. 1897, 



vol. xxi. p. 120, fig. 34. 



The sepals and petals of this variety are pure white, and the lip has an 

 indescribable silvery white tracery on a delicate rose-pink ground. It was 

 adjudged the best hybrid orchid of the year in 1896. 



L^ILIOCATTLEYA DIGBYANO-MENDELII, VEITCHS' var. 



Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. xxx. p. 204, fig. 63, p. 207; Jour, of Hort. 1901, vol. xliii. pp. 237, 

 239, fig. ; Gard. Mag. 1901, pp. 594, 597, fig. 



The parentage of this fine hybrid is expressed by the compound name. 

 It differs from other varieties of the same class in having larger flowers of 

 uniform purplish-rose, and not the usual pallid whitish colour ; the lip, 

 3 in. wide, is of a reddish tinge, the disc yellow. 



L^ELIOCATTLEYA DIGBYANO-MOSSLE. 



Syns. Brassocattleya Veitchii, Rolfe. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. p. 742, fig. Ill ; id. 1895, vol. xviii. p. 161, fig. 

 reproduced; Orchid Review, 1902, vol. x. p. 83 ; Flora and Sylva, vol. ii. p. 264. 



The product of a cross, as its name implies, between Laelia (Brassa- 

 vola) Digbyana and Cattleya Mossiae, raised by Seden, and flowered for 

 the first time in May 1889, when the plant was seven years old. It is 

 still one of the very choice and rare of this group. 



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