NovEMBER, 1916] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 261 
by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, together with flowers of C. 
labiata Lorna Fielden, and one of its hybrids, called C. Portia Lorna 
Fielden. The former has a broad yellow band down the inner halves of the 
lateral sepals, a character belonging to the lip, and the plant has flowered 
several times, and always shows the same peculiarity. In the hybrid, of 
which the seed parent was a normal C. Bowringiana, the two inner halves 
of the lateral sepals are exactly like two half lips, both in the yellow line 
and in the expanded front lobe, with its richer purple colour. The 
dorsal sepal has also the shape and general appearance of a petal. Many 
Fig. 47. CATTLEYA MENDELII WITH THREE LIPS. 
seedlings of the batch have flowered, and all are said to have shown some ot 
the influence of the pollen parent, which shows how undesirable qualities 
may sometimes be perpetuated. 
Freaks may be decidedly ornamental in character, as in a form of C. 
Mendelii, here figured, which appeared some years ago in the collection of 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury. The flower consists of three 
sepals and three lips, the latter with the typical yellow markings on the 
disc and the front lobe rose-pink (colours not shown in their true value in 
the photograph). There is also a yellow streak on one of the sepals. Many 
other curious cases among Cattleyas could be mentioned, and examples 
have been recorded in most of the other genera in cultivation, both in our 
own and in other works. 
