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358 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Binot, and believed to be a hybrid between that species and Lelia pumila, 
owing to its intermediate character. The sepals and petals are purplish 
rose, and the lip bright crimson-purple, with small white side lobes tinged 
with rose, and some orange yellow at the extreme base. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM =TONSUM., 
(See FRONTISPIECE), 
THE frontispiece to the present volume represents a plant of Paphiopedilum 
tonsum from the collection of Oakes Ames, Esq., North Easton, Mass, It 
is a particularly good form, and Mr. Ames states that it was used to obtain 
P. X Olivia, which in his estimation is the most beautiful of the P. niveum 
hybrids. The absence of cilia from the petals of P, tonsum, which con- 
stitutes one of its most marked characters, and from which its specific 
name (“‘ shorn”) was derived, is well shown in the photograph, as well as 
the markings of the flowers and leaves. The species is a native of Sumatra, 
and was discovered by Curtis, though unknown to himself at the time, for 
the original plants were found mixed with P. Curtisii, which the collecter 
in question discovered at some distance from Pahang, at an elevation of 
3,000 to 4,000 feet, on the great mountain chain of the island, and sent 
home to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, in 1882. Both the 
species flowered for the first time in cultivation in Messrs. Veitch’s establish- 
ment, in 1883, and are now well-known in collections. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA x GOTTOIANA, 
WHEN this handsome natural hybrid originally appeared in the collection 
of E. Gotto, Esq., The Logs, Hampstead Heath, in 1891, its origin was 
rather a puzzle. It was exhibited at a meeting of the R.H.S. on June 23rd, 
1891, under the name of Lelia Gottoiana, and received a First-class 
Certificate. In the report of the meeting it is recorded that ‘ E. Gotto, 
Esq. (gr. Mr. H. Banks), had Lelia grandis, a well marked form, and L. 
8. superba, a paler form of the former; . . . L. Gottoiana, an 
apparent natural hybrid with Cattleya labiata blood in it—the flowers were 
of unusual size” (Gard. Chron., 1891, ix., p. 793). I understood at the 
time from Mr. Banks that the plant was received, with the others mentioned, 
under the name of Lelia grandis. The latter was well known to be 4 
native of Bahia, but being unable to find a record of any Cattleya of the 
labiata group from Bahia, and looking for other possible combinations, I 
suspected that Cattleya Warneri and Lelia Boothiana might be the parents, 
though the large size of the flower and the acute petals of the hybrid were 
not quite what one would expect to find in such across. Then I discovered 
