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Kew, I thought it worth while to make a careful comparison with possible 

 parents. The result is, I believe it to be a natural hybrid between the two 

 plants above named, both of which grow in the province of Santa 

 Catherina, South Brazil, whence the plant came. It has decided characters 

 of both supposed parents, and may be said to be fairly intermediate 

 between them, though with a balance of characters in favour of the 

 Brassavola. Following the plan proposed for dealing with these bi-generic 

 hybrids, the name Brassocattleya X Lindleyana may be adopted for the 



Brassocattleya.— Although no one has yet succeeded in raising the 

 hybrid just mentioned, a closely allied one has been raised by M. Chas. 

 Maron, by crossing Brassavola fragrans and Cattleya intermedia, which has 

 been called Brassocattleya X nivalis, and now that the so-called Lselia 

 Digbyana has been returned to Brassavola, the hybrid genus Brassocattleya 

 -will receive several accessions, which have previously been referred to 

 .Laelio-cattleya. And the necessity of this transfer furnishes the oppor- 

 tunity of giving single specific titles to several hybrids which have not 

 •hitherto been named in accordance with this salutary rule. 



1. Brassocattleya x Lindleyana. — This plant was originally 

 described by Reichenbach, in 1857, under the name of Cattleya (!) Lindleyana 

 {Allg. Gartenz., xxv., p. 118), from a specimen which flowered with M. J. 

 Linden, of Brussels, and which had been imported from Santa Catherina, 

 S. Brazil. The author described it as without allies, but as having the 

 pseudobulbs and leaves nearly as in Laelia cinnabarina, and flowers 

 approaching Cattleya intermedia. In 1864 it was figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine (t. 5449), from a specimen said to have been sent from Bahia by 

 C. H. Williams, Esq., and which flowered at Kew in September, 1863. 

 The habitat now seems doubtful, and it may be added that the plant had 

 -also flowered at Kew in November of the previous year. Since then other 

 examples have appeared, but the hybrid still remains comparatively rare. 



2. Brassocattleya X Veitchii.— It was in 1889 that the first hybrid 

 from Brassavola Digbyana flowered, the seed parent being Cattleya Mossiae, 

 but as the former parent was then referred to Lselia, the hybrid was 

 ■described as Laelio-cattleya X Digbyana-Mossiae (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 

 1889, v-, p. 742). It had previously been exhibited by the raisers, Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Sons, on May 14th, under the name of Laelia Digbyana X 

 Mossiae, and received a First-class Certificate (Gard. Chron., 1889, v., pp. 

 030, 657, 658, fig. in). As compared with the Brassavola parent, the 

 flower is considerably enlarged, and more expanded, with the colour a 

 pleasing shade of rose-pink. The lip is elegantly fringed, though not nearly 

 to such an extent as in the pollen parent. It was welcomed as a great 

 .acquisition, and was regarded as the possible forerunner of a race with 



