PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



SOPHEOL^LIOCATTLEYA VEITCHII, Chapman. 



Syns. Sophrocattleya Veitchii, Veitch. 



Chapman in Watson's Orchids, ed. 2, 1903, p. 469; Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xii. 

 p. 312 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; Orchid Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 356. 



A hybrid obtained by Seden from the bright scarlet-flowered Sophronitis 

 grandiflora and the bigeneric hybrid Laeliocattleya elegans, involving three 

 distinct genera in its parentage, and flowered for the first time in the year 

 1892. 



SPATHOGLOTTIS x AUEEO-VEILLAEDII. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 10 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); id. 1898, 

 vol. xxiii. p. 309, fig. 115 ; Diet. Ic. des Orchidees, Spathoglottis, hybr. pi. 1. 



The first hybrid raised between two species of this genus, a product of a 

 cross effected by Seden, between Spathoglottis aurea and S. Veillardii. 



The flowers were produced for the first time in May 1897, on which 

 occasion the plant was exhibited at the Eoyal Horticultural Society's Show 

 held in the Temple Gardens. 



THUNIA x VEITCHIANA, Rchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron, 1885, vol. xxiii. p. 818; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vi. p. 20, 



First raised by Mr. Toll of Manchester, and shortly afterwards by 

 Seden : a great advance on the type species. 



Plants of both progenies were exhibited in flower at one of the Eoyal 

 Botanic Society's Shows in 1885 Mr. Toll's under the name of Wrigleyana 

 and our own as Veitchiana ; as the materials for Professor Eeichenbach's 

 description were supplied by us, this name has priority of publication. 



The parents are Thunia Marshalliae and T. Bensoniae. 



ZYGOCOLAX LEOPAEDINUS. 



Syns. Zygopetalum X leopardinus, Rchb. f. 



Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. ix. p. 66 ; Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxvi. p. 66 ; 

 Orchid Review, 1900, vol. viii. p. 12. 



A hybrid raised by crossing Zygopetalum maxillare with the pollen of 

 Colax jugosus, in which the influence of the latter seems to have been 

 quite subordinate. 



The plant flowered for the first time in 1886, when Professor Eeichen- 

 bach described it, but at that time the parentage was not correctly known 

 and could only be conjectured. More conclusive evidence has since been 

 obtained, and the names of the two species now given as parents are 

 undoubtedly correct. 



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