PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



considerably, and several seedlings have been named, such as superba, 

 picta, and purpurea (as their names indicate), differing from the type 

 in size, marking and colour of the flowers. The typical form is a light 

 rosy-mauve with the front lobe of the lip deep purple-crimson, but the 

 variety superba is one of the finest products of orchid hybridizing. 



LvELIOCATTLEYA OPHIE. 



Orchid Review, 1901, vol. ix. p. 350. 



Eaised by Seden from Lselia xanthina and Cattleya Dowiana aurea, a 

 striking plant with flowers with yellow sepals and petals and a tawny 

 purple lip. 



LJELIOCATTLEYA OEPHEUS. 



Syns. Brassocattleya Orpheus. 



Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxi. p. 50 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 



Review, 1902, vol. x. p. 85. 



This most interesting cross, obtained from Laelia (Brassavola) glauca 

 and Cattleya Trianae alba, is fairly intermediate in character, having 

 white sepals slightly tinged with pink and white petals and a lip blotched 

 with a yellow disc. 



L^ELIOCATTLEYA PALLAS. 



Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. vi. pp. 620, 701 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); 

 Orchid Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 21 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1895, p. 18, fig. ; Rev. 

 de 1'Hort. Beige, 1897, p. 130, fig. 22 ; Diet. Ic. des Orchidees, Lseliocattleya 

 hybr. pi. 9. 



Eaised from Laelia crispa and Cattleya Dowiana ; an exceptionally fine 

 hybrid, and none are finer than the variety superba, exhibited for the first 

 time in December 1889. 



The sepals and petals are very pale yellow suffused with light blush 

 pink ; the lip deep rose-purple, undulated and crisped, with a rich golden 

 yellow throat. 



L^ILIOCATTLEYA PAEYSATIS. 



Orchid Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 310. 



Eaised by Seden from Cattleya Bowringiana crossed with the pollen of 

 Lselia pumila, from seed sown in 1888 ; the plants first flowered in 1893. 



L^ELIOCATTLEYA PHILBEICKIANA. 



Syns. Ltelia X Philbrickiana, Rchb. f. 

 Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xii. p. 102; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. ii. p. 96. 



Eaised from Cattleya Aclandise and Laelia elegans and dedicated to the 

 late Judge Philbrick, of Oldfield, Bickley. 



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