266 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NoveMBER, 1916. 
brown dots. The terete leaves are also rather more slender than in V. 
Kimballiana. It was introduced by Messrs. Sander & Sons, through their 
collector, W. Micholitz, who collected it in the interior of Annam at about 
5000 feet elevation. It flowered for the first time in cultivation at the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, in the spring of 1905, and was dedicated 
to Mr. W. Watson, Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew (Rolfe in 
Gard. Chron., 1905, i. p. 82). The annexed figure represents a small group 
grown in the collection of Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., at Westonbirt, 
by Mr. H. G. Alexander, and shows well the general character, including 
the white pedicels, which are a marked character of the species. Like 
Vanda Kimballiana and V. Amesiana, it succeeds in a light position in the 
Intermediate house. 
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CATTLEYA BOWRINGIANA AND ITS HYBRIDS. 
VERY interesting group of cut flowers of Cattleya Bowringiana and 
its hybrids was exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on October 
24th by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., to illustrate the results obtained by 
hybridisation at Gatton. The species itself was represented by the varieties 
lilacina, coerulea, and concolor, the latter a rather large light rose, form 
of fairly uniform colour, while of familiar hybrids we may mention 
Leliocattleya Parysatis, Cattleya Chloris, Brownie Gatton Park var., an 
exceptionally fine form, Mantinii, Portia, and John Baguley, the latter a 
variety of C. Whiteleye. Of C. Portia we noted the varieties coerulea and 
Lorna Fielden, the former reproducing much of the colour of C. Bowring- 
iana coerulea, and the latter having lip-like lateral sepals (this being more 
fully described at page 261). And there were two additions of exceptional 
interest. C. Beryl (Wendlandiana x Hardyana) is a decided advance on 
the former, and having a large well expanded rich purple flower with a pair of 
yellow eye-like blotches on the lip. C. Chloringiana (Bowringiana lilacina 
x Chloris) is most like the latter parent in general character, and having 4 
similar purple blotch on the front of the lip. This, as Sir Jeremiah Colman 
points out, is an example of C. Bowringiana recrossed with one of its own 
hybrids, and we can now add a second, a hybrid from C. Bowringiana X 
Portia, having just flowered at Kew. It was purchased at a Sale by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris in 1913, with this record, and has purple flowers of 
intermediate shape, with a large obcordate whitish blotch on the lip. This 
may be distinguished as C. Portringiana. Sir Jeremiah remarks that he 
was prompted to send up these flowers to the R.H.S. by the interesting 
article in our last issue (pp. 237-239), and that but for war conditions he 
could have made up a really pretty group. 
