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CATTLEYA x BRYMERIANA Rrcup. F. 
Mr. W. E. BRYMER’S CATTLEYA. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, Wh 7h 
Cattleya X Brymeriana. Pseudobulbi clavati, diphylli. Folia oblonga, obtusa, coriacea. Scapus 4-5-florus. Spatha 
oblonga, subacuta. Flores speciosi. Sepala lanceolato-oblonga, apiculata, lateralia subfalcata. Petala elliptico-oblonga 
subobtusa, leviter undulata. Labellum trilobum, lobis lateralibus rotundatis obtusis crenulatis, intermedio obcordato 
v. transverse oblongo profunde emarginato crenulato. Columna clavata. 
Cattleya X Brymeriana Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1883, pt. Il, p. 492. — Ip., 1884, pt. Il, p. 520. — 
Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, IV, t. 184. — VerrcH Man. Orch., pt. I, p. 86. 
his handsome Cattleya is a native of the Rio Negro district, in Brazil, 
and was originally introduced to cultivation by Messrs Hucu Low & C?, 
of Clapton, through their collector Wurre. It flowered for the first time 
in 1883, and was dedicated by Reicuensacn to Mr. W. E. Brymer, of Islington 
House, Dorchester. 
It is a natural hybrid between Cattleya superba and C. Eldorado, and occurs 
where these two species grow together in the district above named. It combines 
the characters of these two species, though the influence of C. superba decidedly 
preponderates. The two-leaved pseudobulb bears a raceme of several handsome 
flowers about five inches across. The sepals and petals are of a light purplish- 
rose, and the lip deep magenta purple, with a large deep orange-yellow throat, 
whose outline is very sharply defined. 
Like many other natural hybrids it is comparatively rare, yet a considerable 
number of individuals are known, and it would appear that the two species 
hybridise together very readily. 
In all probability the particular insects which fertilise the flowers visit the 
two species indiscriminately when flowers of both are accessible, and thus the 
pollen of one will be carried to the stigma of the other, and cross-fertilisation 
effected. It can hardly fail that some of the capsules will produce fertile seeds, 
which may ultimately find a suitable place to germinate upon, and in due time 
produce flowers. Thus some of the experiments conducted by hybridists at home 
may be effected on a large scale in a state of nature, and if only a small percen- 
tage of the hybrid seed ultimately reaches the flowering stage the number of 
plants found may yet be considerable. To this may be attributed the fact that 
several undoubted natural hybrids are by no means uncommon. If two species 
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