i THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, 19172) 
stems, while the foliage is even more variable, and a few of them are quite — 
leafless. The flowers are very diverse in shape and size, and the colour is — 
mostly white, but in a few cases light green, yellow and buff. 
N your article on Hybrids of Cattleya Bowringiana (O.R., xxiv. pp. — 
237-239) you do not include the hybrids with the short-bulbed ~ 
Epidendrums. Of these I have two. C. Bowringiana xX E. advena 
(Godseffianum) is called Epicattleya adboa, and the flower in shape is like — 
the Epidendrum parent, but the segments broadened out, and the colour — 
most like the Cattleya. It has an elongated barrel-shaped stem. C. 
Bowringiana X E. plicatum, is called Ec. plicaboa, and is similar in the — 
stem, and blooms every year, producing long scapes of handsome, magenta- — 
crimson flowers. C. Bowringiana X Lelia Perrinii, called Lzliocattleya — 
boarina, makes a good floriferous hybrid, in some cases favouring the — 
parent, in others more like the Cattleya. Among secondary hybrids I — 
have Cattleya melodboa (C. Bowringiana x Claesiana); C. ammeboa — 
(Bowringiana X interglossa); C. Lodillboa (Bowringiana xX Daphne); 
Leliocattleya leobroboa (C. Bowringiana X Le. Issy); Lc. crismoloboa ' 
(C. Bowringiana X Lc. leucoglossa) ; Lc. purleoboa (C. Bowringiana X 
Lc. elegans, and others, supposed to be C. Bowringiana X mollis, &c., but — 
the labels are lost and the parentage too complicated to trace from the — 
flowers. 
CATTLEYA BOWRINGIANA AND ITS HYBRIDS. 
As to the names, I invented a system of naming these complicated. . 
hybrids so as to recognise them for hybridising purposes without too great — 
astrainon the memory. The system consists in representing each species — 
by one syllable or part of a syllable of its name, and combining them, 
adding a vowel if needed for euphony. Thus Bowringiana is represented — 
by boa, and among primary hybrids we get Ec. adboa with E. advena; 
Ec. plicaboa with E. plicatum, and Lec. boarina with L. Perrinii, while 
among secondary hybrids it is also the specific composition that is repre- — 
sented, and this may be expressed as follows :— 
C. MELODBOA (Bowringiana x Claesiana), representing C. intermedia, 
Loddigesii and Bowringiana. 
C. AMMEBOA (Bowringiana x interglossa), representing amethystoglossa,. 
intermedia and Bowringiana. 
C. LopiLsoa (Bowringiana x Daphne), representing C. Loddigesii,. 
Schilleriana and Bowringiana. 
Lc. LEoBRoBoA (C. Bowringiana x Le. Issy), representing L. tenebrosa, 
C. Leopoldii and C. Bowringiana. : 
