THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



CALANTHE x ROLLISSONI 



This is one of the older, and still imperfectly known hybrids. Hansen* 

 (Orch. Hyb., p. 82), citing from Bergman's Orchidees des Semis (a work 

 inaccessible to us), briefly records it as raised from Calanthe veratrifolia 

 X Masuca, by Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, adding " nous ne savons si 

 cette variete vit toujours." We have not discovered a further record, but 

 there is a drawing and note in the Day Collection of Drawings (lii., t. 71) 

 which may throw further light on the question. This drawing, which was 

 made in June, 1887, is labelled Calanthe Mylami, and the plant is noted 

 as a fine hybrid raised by Mr. Mylam, foreman of the Orchid department 

 at the old nursery of Messrs. Wm. Rollisson & Sons, at Tooting. It is 

 said to be much in the way of C. X Dominyi (which was also in bloom in 

 the collection), except that the latter was much paler in colour. C. X 

 Dominyi is called a hybrid of Veitch's between C. veratrifolia and C. 

 Masuca, and of C. Mylami it is remarked : — " The parents are no doubt 

 the same, but probably reversed." And Mr. Day adds : — "It was raised 

 many years ago, but I cannot find any notice of it in any publication in 

 my possession." From these facts it seems highly probable that C. X 

 Rollissoni and C. X Mylami represent the same hybrid, or at least forms of 

 the same, but it should be added that C. X Dominyi is different, its 

 parentage being C. Masuca X furcata, the latter an ally of C. veratrifolia, 

 but quite distinct. C. X Dominyi was also painted by Mr. Day at the 

 same time, and affords a useful basis for comparison. C. X Mylami has 

 rather broader sepals and petals, which are somewhat darker in colour. 

 The lobes of the lip are distinctly broader, the divisions of the front lobe 

 being nearly twice as broad, and the colour red-purple instead of light 

 purple, while the spur is stouter, in fact slightly clavate, and not distinctly 

 bidentate as in Dominyi. Thus it is rather more like C. Masuca than 

 even C. X Dominyi is, and in each case the white colour of the other 

 parent is obliterated. 



ORCHIDS FROM MANDERSTON. 



Several very beautiful Orchids are sent from the collection of Sir 

 James Miller, Bart., Manderston, Duns, N.B., by Mr. Hamilton. Sophro- 

 cattleya X Chamberlainiana, represented by a two-flowered inflorescence, 

 is a really charming thing, in which the characters of Sophronitis grandi- 

 flora and Cattleya Harrisoniana are well combined. The flowers are now 

 3i inches in diameter, and the colour bright carmine-rose, with a whitish 

 disc, the yellow in this particular form being very little developed. 

 Lselio- cattleya X Mandarin, described at page 270, is represented by a fine 



