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petals of a “delicate rosy blush, with many rosy-purple spots.’’ It was 
collected on the mainland of Santa Catherina, Brazil—Gard. Chron., 
1900, Vii., p. 763. 
Now comes the confirmation of its parentage. In18g7 a plant which had 
been raised in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, 
between C. Leopoldi ? and C. intermedia 3g, was exhibited at the Temple 
Show in 1897, and was described as C. X intricata var. Rossii, with the 
remark :—‘‘It is particularly interesting because derived from the two 
supposed parents of the natural hybrid, C. x intricata, and the general 
resemblance is so great that the present one must be considered as a variety 
of C. X intricata, whose origin is thus demonstrated.—Orch. Rev., v., p. 169. 
The distinctness of C. Leopoldi from the original C. guttata had already 
been recognized, and this note, which has subsequently been overlooked, 
sets the matter at rest. The two parents are known to grow together in 
the Santa Catherina district, while C. amethystoglossa grows far away in 
Bahia, where we believe that no C. intermedia has ever been found. It is 
interesting to have the matter cleared up. It may be added that another 
good form of C. X intricata has now flowered in Messrs. Hugh Low & Co.’s 
recent importations. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
ORCHIDS AT CLARE LAWN. 
Among the choice Orchids now flowering in the collection of Sir 
Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen, may be mentioned a 
good plant of the rare Bollea ccelestis, bearing a couple of its remarkable 
flowers. It succeeds well in the Phalznopsis house, where also we noticed 
a fine group of five plants of the pretty little Phalaenopsis in flower. 
Sobralia X Veitchii aurea and S. xX Wiganiz, standing side by side in 
another house, are very handsome. The Cattleya group includes the 
beautiful C. X Whitei bearing four flowers, an exceptionally fine form of 
C. X porphyroplebia, C. Aclandiz nigrescens having sepals and petals 
suffused with blackish brown, a good C. x Hardyana, a fine hybrid between 
C. Schilleriana and C. Dowiana, called C. x Sir F. Wigan, C. Eldorado 
Wallisii, a nearly white form of C. Loddigesii, together with the type and 
a larger form intermediate in colour, and about ten plants or C. 
Warscewiczii. These latter are suspended in small receptacles from the 
roof, and continue to flower freely every year, though apparently in need of 
re-potting. We noted also a very richly coloured form of Lzelio-cattleya 
X Pallas, and a fine specimen of Platyclinis filiformis bearing about sixty 
of its graceful racenes. 
