FEBRUARY, 1916.] THE’ ORCHID REVIEW. 6r 
So far as I can gather, both plants are found wild in Guatemala, where 
they are collected by the Indians, and sold in Guatemala City. Of course 
there may be a white variety of L. Skinneri, presenting otherwise the exact 
characters of that species, but it seems that our white plant is more than a 
mere colour variety.’”’ He sends rough sketches of the lip of the two, alba 
showing a longer front lobe and considerably reduced side lobes, but as 
L. Skinneri varies somewhat in this respect, and as albinism is a condition 
that may operate on quite distinct forms, we suspect that it is not more” 
than a variety. We know that the plants of L. Skinneri alba in cultivation: 
are picked out of importations of the species when they flower, and Mr. 
E. V. Low recently told us of a few plants that he acquired in this way. 
We know also that they are not all identical in shape, as they would be if 
they were subdivisions of one original plant. The annexed figure represents - 
a plant grown by Mr. E. Rogers, gardener to O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge 
Hall, Bury, which is one of the best that we ever remember to have seen. 
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| @ Z| A DOUBTFUL CATTLEYA. [ese 
READ with great interest the article on Cattleya labiata from Ceara’ 
at page 30 of your January issue. As a member of the firm of Knight 
& Struck, of New York, I tendered last spring for a large number of 
Orchids for a public Institution in this country. Part of the tender was- 
awarded to us and part to a collector in South America. The tender 
included Cattleya Harrisonie. Some few weeks ago I happened to call at’ 
this Institution, and was shown what had been delivered for C. Harrisoniz. 
Some of the plants were in bloom. To my surprise the bulbs resembled 
those of a hybrid between C. labiata and C. Hatrisoniz, but the flowers 
borne on a long stem—similar to C. superba—short but stout bulbs, but the 
flowers answered the exact description of your correspondent, Mr. J. Simao 
da Costa.. I. have made arrangements to get a specimen plant of this 
particular importation, and I am in hopes to give you more detail when it 
flowers, this coming fall. I should be glad to get some other Orchid lover’s- 
views on the matter. THoMAS KNIGHT. 
Rutherford, N.J., U.S.A. 
[We shall await further information with interest, together with a 
dried flower if possible. We cannot suggest a name from the above,- 
and C. labiata and C. Harrisoniana (Harrisonie is a later name) grow 
so far apart that a natural hybrid between them is out of the question. 
And they are 30 distinct in habit that they should not be confused. 
together.—Eb. | 
