i 52 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



LiELIO-CATTLEYA x LUMINOSA. 

 The annexed illustration represents a very beautiful hybrid from Laeliai 

 tenebrosa 2 and Cattleya Dowiana 3 , in the collection of Sir James 

 Hamilton, Manderston, Duns, X.B. The photograph reproduced has 

 been kindly sent by Mr. Hamilton, who remarks that the colour of the 

 petals is decidedly that of C. Dowiana, and the lip more like L. tenebrosa. 

 The plant is small at present, but will evidently develop into a very hand- 

 some thing when it becomes strong. The hybrid is called Laelio-cattleya X 

 luminosa, but whether this is its correct name is a question of some. 



Fig. i8. L.elio-cattleya x luminosa. 

 . difficulty. A hybrid of this parentage was exhibited at Paris on October 

 ioth and 24th of last year by M. Ch. Maron, under, the name of L.-c. X 

 Truffautiana, and was described at page 338 of our last volume. Shortly 

 afterwards we were told that the same hybrid was exhibited at the 

 Chrysanthemum Show of the Manchester Royal Botanical and Horticultural 

 Society in the autumn of 1900, under the name of L.-c. X luminosa, and 

 received a First-class Certificate. We looked up the report of this meeting 

 in two horticultural papers without finding a mention of the plant, and then* 



