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found it on Naharina.” Fendler also subsequently collected fruiting 
specimens in Trinidad, and afterwards obtained flowers by cultivating 
the plant. Reichenbach identified Bradford’s specimens with the Botanical 
Magazine figure above-named (Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 620), and also 
added as a synonym C. Deckeri, Klotzsch. 
C. Deckeri was described by Klotzsch in March, 1855, (A ligem. 
Gartenz., xxiii., p. 81), from a plant received through Ehrenberg, which 
flowered in the collection of Herr Rudolph Decker, of Berlin (gr. Herr 
Reinecke), and on comparing the description it is quite evident that this 
also is the same plant. 
C. Deckeri is therefore the original name of the plant, and the proper 
one, I believe, to be adopted, for it is clearly distinct from C. Skinneri in its 
smaller flowers, the dark lip without a pale throat as in that, and in 
flowering at a different time of year, namely in winter. It comes from a 
different geographical area, and the different forms known agree in 
essential character. It has not the globose base of the pseudobulb seen in 
C. Bowringiana, which also differs in most of the characters above pointed 
out. Some forms have a tendency to self-fertilization, and one which 
flowered in the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, in 1892, had 
three anthers in each of its five flowers. It is interesting at last to be 
able to clear up its history, and if less showy than its allies, we hope that it 
will find a place in representative collections. 
R. A. R. 
HYBRIDS IN THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 
Ir is such a rare occurrence to find a hybrid figured in the Botanical 
Magazine that the circumstance is worth noting. The August number 
includes the rare natural hybrid Cattleya x Whitei (t. 7727), with the 
following brief explanation :—‘‘So great has been the interest shown by 
Orchidists in the natural hybrid here figured, that I have yielded to their 
wish that it should appear in the pages of the Botanical M agazine, as one of 
the few exceptions to the rule, which excludes hybrids in favour of pure 
species, so long as these are pressing for illustration.” There are five other 
exceptions among Orchids which we call to mind, as follows :— 
Cattleya x elegans (t. 4700), then thought to be a species, but since 
recognized as a natural hybrid between Cattleya Leopoldi and Lelia 
purpurata, and known under the name of Lelio-cattleya x elegans. 
Cattleya x Lindleyana (t. 5449), also of unknown origin when figured, 
but now ranked as a natural hybrid between Cattleya intermedia and 
Brassavola tuberculata, under the name of Brassocattleya x Lindleyana. 
Calanthe x Dominii (t. 5042), well known as the first artificial hybrid 
