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varieties.” It may be added that Cattleya crispa is synonymous with 
Lelia crispa, and that Mr. Milford’s shrewd opinion has proved correct. 
The parents of Lc. exoniensis are now known to be L. crispa and C. 
Mossiz, from which a similar hybrid has since been raised (0. Si 
p- 213)., As to the seed-pod mentioned by Mr. Wills (the pollen parent is 
not stated), we fear that it came to nothing, for Cattleya seedlings were 
not easily raised at that period, and the collection was dispersed five 
years later. 
It may be interesting to add that Lc. exoniensis was the pollen parent 
of Lc. fausta, the earliest secondary hybrid Orchid raised, in which the now 
well-known phenomena of variation were specially observed by Mr. Seden, 
and recorded by Mr. Day (see O.R., xviii. p. 11). Cattleya Loddigesii was 
the seed bearer, and the seedlings began to flower in 1873. It was also 
utilised by Messrs. Veitch in two other early crosses, Lc. triophthalma, a 
seedling from Cattleya superba, which flowered in 1883, and Lc. Cassiope, 
a seedling from Lelia pumila, which flowered six years later. We believe 
that these old historical plants have now become very rare, which is to 
be regretted.—R.A.R. 
fe | 
HE very beautiful hybrid here. figured was exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s meeting on October 21st last, by J. J. Joicey, 
Esq., The Hill, Witley, Surrey (gr. Mr. J. Mackay), and received a First- 
class Certificate. It was derived from a cross between Brassocatlelia 
Cooksonii and Leliocattleya Thyone, and this is of somewhat complex 
ancestry, as the following analysis will show. 
| DS | BRASSOCATLELIA JOICEYI. 
L. xanthina X C. Dowiana. L. cinnabarina X B. Digbyana. 
gi 
Le. Ophir X C. Dowiana. Bl. Gratrixie X C. Dowiana. 
| hae 
Lc. Thyone. * Bel. Cooksoniz. 
Bel. Joiceyi. 
We thus see that it is the result of five separate crosses, and Cattleya 
Dowiana comes in from both sides of the ancestry, having indeed been used 
three times over, which would account for its preponderating influence in 
the hybrid. As regards the other three species concerned, we note the 
influence of Brassavola Digbyana in the shape and substance, and of Lelia 
cinnabarina in the undulation of the lip. L. xanthina can be traced in the 
more open shape and in the retention of much of the yellow colour. The 
