THE ORCHID REVIEW. 277 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
L2#LIO-CATTLEYA X ROBIN MEASURES. 
A FLOWER of this distinct and pretty hybrid, which was exhibited at the 
Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on August 24th, has been received 
from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. It was obtained by crossing 
Lelia xanthina with the pollen of Cattleya granulosa, and well combines 
the characters of its two parents. The flowers on the whole most resemble 
the Cattleya parent in shape and size, but the petals are straighter and 
not narrowed below in the same way, while the lip is much modified in 
shape. The sepals and petals are yellow, the latter over an inch broad, 
the side lobes of the lip yellowish white outside, and the front lobe of the 
lip light purple. The lip is three-lobed, as in the Cattleya. parent, but is 
not so deeply divided, and the front lobe is much shorter and less narrowed 
below, in fact it extends very little beyond the tips of the enlarged side 
lobes. The pollen shows the usual intermediate character of hybrids 
between the two genera, and in this, as well as in the colour and modified 
shape of the flower, the influence of the seed parent is seen. It is probably 
not yet fully developed. 
DENDROBIUM VICTORIA-REGIN., 
THE original description of the new Dendrobium Victoria-Reginz 
(Loher in Gard. Chron., 1897, xxi., p. 399) contained no indication of the 
affinity of the species, a point which can now be cleared up, the plant hav- 
ing flowered in several collections. It belongs to the section Pedilonum, 
having the tooth-like process on the claw of the lip seen in many species 
of that group, but the chin is shorter than in most others, and so far as I 
can find it is very distinct. On the whole it seems nearest to D. 
rhodocentrum, Rchb. f., in shape, but it is very distinct in colour. D. 
sanguinolentum, Lindl., and D. ionopus, Rchb. f., have a three-lobed lip, but 
are otherwise comparable in several respects. The figure recently published 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (Aug. 21st, p. 121, fig. 34) gives an excellent idea 
of its character. The colour of the upper part of the segments, however, 
I should describe as violet-purple—it is certainly not blue—though at the 
same time it is very distinct in this respect from every other species known 
to me. The lines at the base of the lip are blackish purple in colour. 
The racemes at present are two-flowered, but are described as three- to 
twelve-flowered in the wild state, from which we may infer that it is 
not yet normally developed under cultivation. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
