304 THE ORCHID REVIEW. ‘OcropeR, 1914. 
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HIS remarkable generic hybrid has recently flowered well at Kew. It 
was originally raised by M. Dallemagne, of Rambouillet, France, 
from Schomburgkia tibicinis ¢ and Cattleya Mossiz 3, and was exhibited 
at a meeting of the Sociétié Nationale d’Horticulture de France in August, 
1903, when it received a First-class Certificate (Journ. Soc. Nat. Hort. Fr., 
1903, p. 534). The annexed figure represents one of the flowers, about two- 
thirds natural size, and it will be seen that it has retained the characters of 
SCHOMBOCATTLEYA SPIRALIS. 
Fig. 36. SCHOMBOCATTLEYA SPIRALIS. 
the seed-parent to a remarkable extent, though the size is about doubled. 
The segments are also more acuminate, and more or less twisted—I0 
allusion to which the name is given—while the side lobes of the lip are less 
rounded and overlapping, and the front lobe greatly enlarged and separated 
from the side lobes by a broad isthmus. The sepals, petals, and front lobe 
of the lip are bright rose-purple, and the side lobes tipped with the same 
colour, while inside they are veined with dark purple on a light buff yellow 
ground. The disc is reddish-purple at the base and yellow in the hess 
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The plant also most resembles the Schomburgkia parent 1m genera 
character. 
