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your readers cares to try, I will send him a few seeds. Besides the type, I 
cultivate a variety with pure white flowers, which reproduces itself true, and 
I have another in which the leaves are margined with white. I have not 
ascertained if the latter reproduces itself true, or if it reverts to the type, as 
seems the more probable. Here the Bletillas are nearly hardy. Grown in 
ordinary soil, and protected from north winds by a wall, they resist all but 
the severest winters, though it is preferable to give them some protection. 
The soil in which they succeed best contains a plentiful admixture of leaf 
mould. FERNAND DENIS. 
Balaruc-les-Bains, Herault, France. 
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ee CATTLEYA INTRICATA. 23 
N interesting Cattleya has flowered in the collection of J. Ansaldo, Esq., 
Rosebank, Mumbles, which we refer to C. intricata, Rchb. f., the 
natural hybrid between C. intermedia and C. Leopoldii. This hybrid 
originally appeared with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., at Clapton, in 1884 
when it was suggested as a probable natural hybrid between C. intermedia 
and Lalia elegans. The unique plant then passed into the collection of H. 
Little, Esq., Twickenham, and in 1889 complete materials were deposited at 
Kew. A careful comparison then showed that the plant was intermediate 
between C. intermedia and C. Leopoldii, and as the pollinia were those of 
a pure Cattleya it was evident that this represented the parentage. A 
variety maculata subsequently appeared in the collection of Malcolm Cooke, 
Esq., Kingston Hill, in which the influence of C. Leopoldii was more 
apparent, in the much spotted petals. The parentage was confirmed when 
Messrs. Sander raised a similar plant from the same two species, which 
was called C. Rossii before its identity with C. intricata was discovered. 
It is interesting to note that the three Santa Catherina species, C. 
intermedia, C. Leopoldii, and Lelia purpurata, have yielded all the three 
possible natural hybrids, and that the parentage in each case has been 
proved experimentally. These are Leliocattleya elegans (C. Leopoldii X 
L. purpurata), Lc. Schilleriana (C. intermedia x L. purpurata, and C. 
intricata (C. intermedia X Leopoldii). What has not been cleared up is 
whether any of the possible secondary hybrids also exist in a wild state. 
Two of them have been described with a great deal of confidence, by 
“Argutus ” (Gard., 1902, ii. p. 182), namely Leliocattleya Paillip-Stokes 
(Le. elegans x C. Leopoldii), and Le. Queen-Alexandra (ise. Sneenee 
Xx L. purpurata). Under the heading of *‘ Two new natural hybrids ? 
the writer remarks :— 
“The wonder is, considering the length of time that Leliocattleya 
