THE ORCHID REVIEW 
Vol. XXIX] NOVEMBER, 1921. [No. 341. 
NOTES. 
Ueliocattleya General Maude.— It is rarely one sees so intense a 
degree of purple coloration as in the variety of Lc. General Maude which 
has recently flowered for the first time in the collection of Richd. G. 
Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham Hill, London. This hybrid results 
from the crossing of Lc. rubens with C. Hardyana, and the habit of growth 
closely resembles L. pumila, one of the component species of the former 
parent. The very appropriate varietal name of Purple Glory has been 
selected by Mrs. Thwaites, who kindly sends the flower to us as evidence of 
the intense purple coloration existing in all the six segments. We may 
recall, the fact that years ago Mrs. Thwaites pointed out how C. aurea 
brightens up the purple colour of certain species when fused with it through 
hybridisation, and the present instance is but another example, the yellow 
of C. aurea being obtained from the C. Hardyana parent. 
Serapias gregaria. —Under this name a new European Serapias is 
described in the Journal of Botany, 1921, p. 241, by Col. M. J. Godfery, 
F.L.S. Its habitat is the Schistose hills, Hy^res, France, and the flowering 
season April-May. As some of the characters were those of S. parviflora, 
Col. Godfery at first thought the plants must be hybrids between it and S. 
lingua, but “ later on the same plant sprang up in thousands, nearly always 
in colonies. It was no longer possible to regard it as a hybrid, not only on 
account of its great abundance and uniformity, but also because not a single 
specimen of either lingua or parviflora could be found in the locality.’* 
The hybrid was compared with the true lingua, and the points of difference 
are recorded, these being chiefly in regard to the lip. “I was therefore 
forced,” states Col. Godfery, “to the unexpected conclusion that there 
exists in France a hitherto unrecorded species of Serapias, and decided to 
name it Serapias gregaria, from its habit of growing in colonies. This is 
due to the annual production of a third tuber, so that the plant is suc¬ 
ceeded, accidents apart, by two new plants instead of by one only, as in 
the majority of Orchids, resulting in a rapid vegetative increase.” S. 
gregaria flourishes upon the schist, while S. lingua and S. parviflora on 
