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a form of L.-c. X devoniensis. It is unfortunate that there should be this 

 confusion in the early records, but the appearance of another hybrid with 

 the same reputed parentage compels an attempt to clear the matter up. 



The present novelty is a handsome thing, most resembling C. granulosa 

 in shape, but with longer and more acute sepals and petals, the latter 

 attaining a length of 4$ inches, by over i^ inches broad, and gracefully 

 crisped and undulate, as in the Lselia parent. The sepals and petals are 

 closely veined throughout with rose-pink on a paler ground, and somewhat 

 dotted with purple towards the apex. The lip is very deeply three-lobed, 

 as in all C. gianulosa hybrids, and the side lobes are cream-white outside, 

 also near the margin inside, the basal part being bright yellow, and the tips 

 rich-purple crimson. The front lobe is of the latter colour, slightly 

 variegated with a paler tint inside the lilac, crisped margin. The purple 

 assumes a brown tint on the unguis and along the disc, the latter bearing 

 a number of short radiating lateral veins. The face and back of the 

 column are red-purple, and the sides and apex nearly white. The scape at 

 present bears two flowers. 



THE HYBRIDIST. 



Lelio-cattleya X BURBAGENSis.-An interesting hybrid has flowered 

 in the collection of Captain C. C. Hurst, Burbage, Hinckley, whose 

 history is not exactly known, as it was purchased as an unflowered 

 seedling. In the first place the pollinia agree with L f l °- C f^^ 

 there is unmistakable evidence that one parent 1 



. Laelia and the other a 

 d^y^Ta^rThTKp'is deeply three-lobed, and is comparable 

 with that of C. granulosa in the long side lobes and the elongated base of 

 the front lobe, together with its shape and granular surface. The L*ha 

 parent appears to have been L. purpurata, its influence being apparent in 

 the white ground colour of the side lobes of the lip, the rich purple front 

 lobe shading off to lilac in front, and in the modified shape and colour of 

 the sepals and petals. It may be compared with U-c. X *£- , but has 



longer sepals and petals— the latter being 



curved and undulated— and 



the colour much paler, with a longer, more deeply divided lip, 

 which would be expected from the above-named parentage 



i 6* inches across the petals, which 



The flower 

 themselves 1 inch broad, 



, and somewhat undulate and reflexed. The ground colour 

 of the sepals and petals may be described as cream-yellow tinged with 

 green, and dotted with purple on both surfaces, but most strongly behind, 

 while on the petals the dots are arranged in more or less confluent, lines 

 radiating towards the margin. The side lobes of the lip < 

 purple apex, the disc de< 



eep purple, becoming spotted at the base, 



