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brick-red, with blotches like little drops of water on the petals and sepals, 
which have at their base a large dark blotch. The lip is very acuminate, 
7 centimetres long, in colour darker thanthe sepals. Although at first sight 
the plant resembles a Pescatorea, it differs in its leaves, which are distichous. 
Between each leaf grows out a large and peculiar flower. It does not form 
tufts like the Pescatoreas, but it climbs the trunks of trees and often 
envelops completely the trunk of a palm. Pescatoreas, on the contrary, 
form large tufts. 
“To my knowledge, there are only four kinds of Batemannia known: 
Batemannia Burtii, from Costa Rica; Batemannia Burtii Wallisii, from 
Ecuador; Batemannia Burtii Wallisii major, from Colombia. , 
Lastly, Batemannia meleagris from South Brazil. A great many examples 
of this beautiful species have been introduced, and it is really regrettable 
that this plant has not yet flowered in Europe, and that there should be so 
few living examples of it. It is a great pity that it remains unknown to 
amateurs of this beautiful family. I may again mention the conditions 
under which the plant grows. The temperature is the same throughout the 
year—from 25 to 30 degrees C. (77-86 deg. Fahr.), and even more; very 
little sun, mostly in the shade, always much humidity, and the rain is every 
day very heavy, so that the plant is almost constantly wet.”—Roezl in 
Orchidophile, i., p. 446. 
R.A.R. 
SOBRALIA CROSSED WITH CATTLEYA. 
In an account of the collection at Highbury, Birmingham, the seat of the 
Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P. (Gard. Chron., 1900, XXVill., p. 194) 
occurs an interesting note respecting ‘“‘ plants of what should be a hybrid 
between Sobralia macrantha and Cattleya Warscewiczii, the seedlings being 
raised from seeds so recorded. The flowers and growth can only be those 
of S. macrantha, though there is a peculiar elongation of the lip and other 
strange features about it.” 
These plants, we believe, were first mentioned at page 366 of our first 
volume, when Mr. Burberry wrote :—“ It may interest your readers to know 
that we have a healthy batch of about a dozen plants obtained by crossing 
Sobralia macrantha with the pollen of Cattleya gigas.” At page 331 of our 
sixth volume we also read :—‘‘ The seedlings of Sobralia macrantha reported 
as crossed with the pollen of Cattleya gigas are rapidly approaching the 
flowering stage, but we fail to see any trace of the Cattleya parentage in 
them.” 
They have now flowered, and it would appear that they afford a 
parallel to the now familiar case of Zygopetalum crossed with Odontoglossum. 
In each case we should like to see reverse cross attempted. 
