JAN.-Frp., 1919.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 17 
q| SOPHROCATTLEYA BLACKII. | v 
HE handsome hybrid which is here figured was raised in the collection of 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., of Streatham, from Sophronitis grandiflora 
crossed with the pollen of Cattleya Hardyana. It was dedicated to Mr. J. 
M. Black, who had long had charge of the collection, and received an Award 
of Merit from the R.H.S. in August, 1909. It has retained much of the 
Sophronitis character, both in shape and colour, the flower, however, being 
Fig. 2. SOPHROCATTLEYA BLACKII. 
considerably enlarged. The sepals and petals may be described as rich 
cardinal red, and the lip is darker, with some yellow lines in the throat, 
the latter not well shown in the figure owing to the well-known fact that 
this colour does not come out well in a photograph. This hybrid was 
afterwards crossed by Mr. Thwaites with the pollen of Brassocattleya 
Leemaniae, resulting in a promising trigeneric hybrid which has now 
flowered, and to which Mr. Thwaites has given the name of Rolfeara 
rubescens (see p. 3). Other developments are, we believe, in progress. 
