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which, however, is not well shown in the illustration. Curiously enough it 

 extends downwards almost behind the main rachis, though it is just visible 

 in the photograph ; also in a second photograph sent showing the entire 

 plant. This, though less suitable for reproduction, shows that the pseudo- 

 bulbs and leaves are very fine. Dr. Hoisholt adds that " the species does 

 well with him in a half-span Cool house, facing east, and running north 

 and south, the north gable end of which is almost fully open at night 

 during the summer months." Also that although branching spikes may not 



, he has not seen one before among a large number of plants. 



i album was described in 1887 (Veitch Man. Orch., i., p. 19), 

 but that was not the first appearance of the plant, for in 1880 we find men- 

 tioned, in a reply to W. Bishop, a form of O. citrosmum with flower 

 entirely white except the yellow crest (Gard. Chron., 1880, xiii., p. 602). It 

 is a very beautiful variety, as the illustration shows. 



BRASSAVOLA HYBRIDS. 



Although the species of Brassavola do not yet appear to have been 

 successfully crossed together, they have been united by hybridisation with 

 Cattleya, Laelia and Lselio-cattleya, and it may be interesting to collect 

 together the different hybrids which have appeared, no connected account 

 of them having yet been given. 



The earliest mention of a Brassavola hybrid seems to have been in 

 1889, when a note appeared to the effect that the plant which had long 

 been known as Cattleya Lindleyana was, in all probability, not a species, 

 but a natural hybrid between Cattleya intermedia and Brassavola 

 tuberculata (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, v., p. 437.). The note is as 

 follows:— 



" Cattleya Lindleyana.— What would happen if Mr. Seden, or some 

 of his enterprising co-workers, were to hybridise Cattleya intermedia with 

 Brassavola tuberculata ? Well, it is somewhat difficult to say, as so much 

 depends upon circumstances. The cross might refuse to take, or the 

 capsule, if produced, might contain no good seed ; neither of which are 



all un 



currences. Even when young plants are produced, 



hungry slug will sometimes upset the most carefully devised experiments in 

 a single night. But supposing all the perils incidental to Orchid babyhood 

 safely passed, would the hybridist be surprised if the so-called Cattleya 

 Lindleyana appeared when the flowering stage was reached ? I confess I 

 should not, on the contrary I think it most probable that such would be the 

 end of the experiment. There has always been something mysterious 

 about the plant, and more than once I have looked at dried specimens and 

 drawings, and thought of Brassavola. As a good plant has just flowered at 



