334 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The flowers were of a very pale rose, flushed with olive green, and the 
lip freely marked with purple. Another hybrid, with rather lighter 
flowers, having a less finely marked lip, accompanied this. They vee 
both extremely interesting as hybrid Orchids of direct garden origin. — 
l.c., 11., p. 619. “ 
In September, 1863, there is a record, under ‘ Special Certificates, 
of an exhibit from Messrs. Veitch & Son:—‘‘Cattleya picta, a hybrid 
Orchid with dull reddish-stained sepals and petals, spotted with rose, 
and pallid lip; also C. hybrida, shown previously.”—l.c., ill., p. 369. 
In August 1865, under ‘“ First-class Certificates,” occurs :—‘‘ CATTLEYA 
HYBRIDA PICTA.—Mr. Veitch, Chelsea. This was a cross between C. 
intermedia violacea and C. guttata. It had terete two-leaved stems, 
bluntly oblong stout sepals, and petals of a pale purplish tint suffused 
with green and spotted with deep purple, and a rose-coloured lip, becoming 
very rich purple towards the tip.”—l.c., v., p. 173. In 1881, this C. 
hybrida picta was figured in the Floral Magazine (n. s., t. 473), from one 
of Messrs. Veitch’s plants, where it is recorded as the result of one of 
Mr. Dominy’s earliest efforts at hybridising, being effected as long ago 
as 1855, or 1856. ‘‘It was obtained from C. guttata and C. intermedia, 
the latter being believed to be the pollen parent,” and is as well nigh 
intermediate between them as can be. 
These records, so far as I can see, all belong to the same cross, but 
the details of parentage are confusing. There is another C. x hybrida 
(Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 602), which, unfortunately, has been confused 
with the above, derived from C. Loddigesii ¢ and C. Aclandie ¢, 
and also a C. X picturata (Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1877., viii., p. 584), 
said to be one of Mr. Dominy’s hybrids from C. guttata and C. intermedia, 
which, judging by the description, may be different from C. hybrida 
picta, though the same two species are recorded as the parents. 
Returning now to the figure just mentioned, we find a raceme of seven 
or eight flowers, sepals green with many small brown spots, petals rose- 
purple with a very broad green band along the centre, nearly half their 
width, and bearing many brown spots, and the lip with rose-purple side 
lobes, a deep purple front lobe with a white margin, and some yellow on 
the isthmus. [I can see no trace of either C. granulosa or intermedia in 
the hybrid, and C. Harrisoniana (Harrisoniz) does not account for its 
characters as well as C. Lodigesii. In short, both structure and colour 
indicate that the latter and C. guttata were the parents. 
The plant which appeared with Mr. Brooks is substantially identical 
in structure, but the sepals and petals are light rose-purple with many 
darker spots, the side lobes of the lip white, becoming pale yellow in 
front, and the front lobe deep crimson-purple with a whitish margin. 
