LEPTOLJELIA VEITCHIL 



Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 50, fig. 23 ; Orchid Keview, 1902, vol. x. p. 157. 



A bigeneric hybrid from Leptotes bicolor and Laelia cinnabarina, the 

 former the seed parent. 



The cream-coloured flowers flushed with pink are about If in. in 

 diameter ; the leaves, intermediate in form between those of the two 

 progenitors, are neither cylindrical as in Leptotes nor flattened as in 

 the Laelia. 



The first recorded hybrid between the two genera Leptotes and Leelia. 



MASDEVALLIA x AJAX. 



Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. xx. p. 137 (Report of B.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 

 Review, 1896, vol. iv. p. 228. 



Raised by Seden from Masdevallia x Chelsoni and M. Peristeria, the 

 latter being the pollen parent. 



The general effect is that of M. x Chelsoni modified in shape and 

 darker in colour on account of the numerous little dots derived from 

 M. Peristeria. 



MASDEVALLIA x ALCESTE. 



Orchid Review, 1901, vol. ix. p. 154. 



Eaised from Masdevallia x Asmodia and M. Veitchiana, with large dark 

 red flowers, an orange-yellow ground colour breaking through in places. 



MASDEVALLIA x ASMODIA. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xv. p. 762 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 

 Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 202. 



Three species are involved in the parentage of this hybrid raised from 

 Masdevallia X Chelsoni and M. Eeichenbachiana. 



In shape it resembles the pollen parent, M. Eeichenbachiana, is of 

 about the same size, and in colour a peculiar reddish-purple with slightly 

 darker veins and some dull yellow in the throat. 



MASDEVALLIA x CAUDATO-ESTEAD^l, Rolfe. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. p. 714; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. v. p. 74. 

 A hybrid, as its name indicates, between Masdevallia Estradas and 

 M. caudata Shuttleworthii, the seed parent. 



MASDEVALLIA x CHELSONI, Rchb. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 554 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. v. p. 74. 



MASDEVALLIA x CHELSONI, var. SPLENDENS, Veitch, Rolfe. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. p. 619 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. v. p. 74. 

 This, the first Masdevallia raised from seed in Europe, and the first 

 hybrid to flower, is of unusual interest. 



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