May; 1918.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 105 
well shown in the illustration. The species has been extensively used for 
hybridising, it having been united with most of the other species of the 
labiata group, with several of the long-bulbed diphyllous species, with over 
a dozen Lelias, with Brassovala Digbyana, glauca and nodosa, and with 
Sophronites grandiflora, also with numerous Leeliocattleyas and other 
hybrids, so that its progeny consists of a very diverse family. 
CATTLEYA THAYERIANA, a bloom of which is here figured, represents a 
CATTLEYA THAYERIANA 
combination between C. Schroeder alba and C. intermedia, 
being the seed bearer, and f the two parents. 
It was raised by Mr. E. O. Orpet, S. Lancaster, Mass., U. 
and three years later the first seedlin 
remarked that the colour 
well combines the characters of 
S.A., the 
being sown in April, 1907, 
bloom. Mr. Orpet then 
throughout, the tube of the lip 
irregular blotch in the centre. Three years later a bé 
was in bloom, and Mr. Orpet wrote: “‘ When a quantity of plants 
from a cross between distinct sections of the genus, itis a 
a 
J 
the latter 
y was I 
was delicate pink 
ow, with a purple 
ch of seventy plants 
nost wonderful 
