202 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
twisted sepals and petals, though in colour, shape of the lip, and other 
details the two are markedly different. The present one has pale rosy lilac 
sepals and petals, and a pale yellow lip, with a purple blotch at the base, 
from which some purple streaks radiate laterally. It is one of the parents of 
the beautiful hybrid D. xX Niobe. 
LALIA CINNABARINA AS A PARENT. _ 
THE observations of Messrs. Rothwell and Young bearing on the impotency 
of Paphiopedilum Fairrieanum hybrids for crossing has opened up a 
very interesting line of investigation for the hybridist. A few notes om 
another phase of the same subject may be of interest to readers, relating to 
the use of Lzlia cinnabarina asa parent. We have made in all thirteen . 
trials, in three of which L. cinnabarina was the seed-bearer ; in the other 
ten it was used as pollen parent. The point that seems worthy of note is 
that of the thirteen trials twelve were successful in greater or less degree; 
in those marked * the seed germinated so thickly that many were lost from 
surface fungus, that spread over the peat with great rapidity and fatal — 
results, in hot, damp weather here in July and August of last year. 
It will be seen that the experiments were varied, quite a number of 
distinct types being used, and the only one yet to be heard from is Lelio- 
cattleya xX elegans, which has not been sown a month yet, though — 
C. Percivaliana has been sown three weeks, and tiny green globes are i. 
already dotted over the surface of the seed-bed, and this last-named is not 
noted as a prolific parent. 
List OF CROSSES MADE :— 
Lelia cinnabarina x L. purpurata my ; 
"9 ‘a - &X Cattleya intermedia 
” » XxX Epidendrum x O’Brienianum 
Cattleya maxima Xx Lelia cinnabarina* 
i Mendelii Morganize x. é - e 
eo Schroedere alba Key a » 
Zs Bowringiana Me . vs 
» , werctyahana > eer 2 
os intermedia ee Ss 
5 labiata Mi i bd 
Lelia _- Perrinii. > ee oe - 
purpurata x ” 
eee cattleya X elegans * 
,, (not yet germinating) 
By way of off-set to the above, and, as it were, to prevent an attack of 
“capitus inflatus,” we have had about forty spikes of Epidendrum radicans os 
