THE ORCHID REVIEW. 365 
CATTLEYA x IMPERATOR. 
A vERY handsome Cattleya was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meeting on October 27th, 1896, by Messrs. Linden, of Brussels, 
under the name of Cattleya x Le Czar, and received a First-class 
Certificate. It was supposed to be a natural hybrid between C. labiata and 
C. granulosa, and was subsequently described and figured (Gard. Chron., 
1896, xx., pp. 592, 593, fig. 104; Gard. Mag., 1896, ii., p. 775, with fig. ; 
Lindenia, xi., t. 554). On November 4th last it was exhibited at a meeting 
of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society by A. Warburton, 
Esq., Vine House, Haslingden, and received a similar award. Unfortunately, 
I have not seen the plant, but the drawings show clearly a combination of 
characters derived from the two species in question, and Mr. Warburton 
writes that the pseudobulbs show the same intermediate feature. There are 
five, ranging from 7 to 11 inches long, one bearing two leaves and two 
others only one—the older ones having presumably lost their leaves. The 
infloresence bore two flowers, which were rather a long time in bud before 
opening, and looked like a large granulosa. The flower has much of the 
general shape of this species, with its curved petals and very deeply three- 
lobed lip, and the texture is somewhat similar, but the colour is greatly 
modified. The sepals and petals are beautiful soft rose-pink, with a slight 
tinge of green in the former, the front lobe of the lip rich crimson-purple 
with a pale margin, and the side lobes blush white with purple reflexed tips, 
while the intervening isthmus is reddish with some orange markings. It 
bears a general resemblance to C. X Victoria-Regina, but the flower is larger 
and the lip more deeply divided, as would naturally be expected in a hybrid 
in which C. Leopoldi was replaced by C. granulosa. Hybridists who will 
make the cross suggested will probably succeed in confirming its parentage, 
and at the same time increase the stock of a rare and most beautiful plant. 
It has hitherto only been named in the vernacular, and the name now 
proposed conserves the original idea as nearly as possible, consistent with 
the requir f botanical nomenclature. 
enamine. R. A. ROLFE. 
CURIOUS CROSSES. 
In June last (supra, pp. 179—180) I recorded a few curious generic crosses, 
which, judging from the healthy appearance of the pods at that time, 
seemed likely to succeed. Since then four of those pods have finished their 
course, two of them having come to an untimely end, while the other two 
have ripened and produced good seeds, as the following notes will show. 
On 18th March, 1897, Cypripedium Calceolus was crossed with the 
