HISTORY OF ORCHID HYBRIDISATION xii. 
latter appears to have been the first French hybrid, and is now considered 
to be a form of the natural hybrid C. x Isabella. 
The next hybridist which we find evidence of was Mr. Fraser, of 
Derncleugh, near Aberdeen, who raised Masdevallia xX Fraseri. It was 
derived from M. ignea ¢ and M. coccinea 3, and flowered in 1882. 
In 1882 also Cypripedium X Dauthieri was described, from the 
establishment of Messrs. Van Houtte, of Ghent. Its origin was a mystery, 
but it was soon identified as a form of C. xX Harrisianum, and, curiously 
enough, it has since been traced as a stray seedling from Messrs. Veitch’s 
establishment (See Orch. Rev., 1899, p. 71). 
In the following year we find Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., included in 
the ranks of the hybridists, he having raised the brilliant Calanthe x 
porphyrea from C. vestita and C. labrosa. 
In 1884 the flowering is recorded of Cypripedium x Laforcadei, raised 
by M. Bauer, of Paris, but it is a form of the earlier C. X Ashburtone. 
In 1885 the first hybrid Thunia appeared, and, curiously enough, the 
same hybrid was raised by two different operators—first by Mr. Toll, of 
Manchester, and shortly afterwards by Mr. Seden, in both cases from T. 
Marshalliana ¢ and T. Bensone ¢. Plants were exhibited simul- 
taneously at one of the Royal Botanical Society’s Shows, in 1885, the 
former as T. X Wrigleyana, the latter as T. x. Veitchiana. Under the 
latter name it was eventually described. 
In 1886, a very striking novelty appeared, and was described by 
Reichenbach under the name of Lelia x Batemaniana. It was raised by 
Mr. Seden from Sophronitis grandiflora crossed with the pollen of Cattleya 
intermedia, and flowered in August, 1886, when a little over five years old. 
Reichenbach called it ‘‘a lovely gem, a miniature Lelia’? and added :— 
‘This novelty offers a wide field for considerations of nomenclature. Ate 
all hybrids between what we call genera to get intermediate names ? 
The effect of mixing a Sophronitis and a Cattleya is a Lelia; hence I 
must reduce Sophronitis to Lelia, except S. violacea, with a remodelled 
character.” It was dedicated to the veteran Orchidist, James Bateman, 
Esq., of Worthing, whose name had been known in connection with 
Orchids for upwards of half a century. The plant is now called Sophro- 
cattleya X Batemaniana. 
Another generic hybrid might have been added to the list, for Messrs. 
Veitch flowered a hybrid whose origin had been lost, and Reichenbach 
could only suggest Zygopetalum maxillare as one parent, and called it 
Zygopetalum X leopardinum. A year later the flowering of a hybrid from 
Colax jugosus afforded a clue, and the present plant was transferred to 
Zygocolax. . 
The first artificial hybrid Phalenopsis flowered in 1886, and possesses a 
