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known that all hybrids between a monophyllous Cattleya (or Lzelia) with 
entire lip and a diphyllous one with three-lobed Jip have both monophyllous 
and diphyllous pseudobulbs on the same plant, and flowers with a three- 
lobed lip, though otherwise intermediate in character. The identity of the 
present plant in these respects with Cattleya x Harrisii (C. Leopoldi x C. 
Mendelii) and Leelio-cattleya x elegans (C. Leopoldi x Lelia purpurata) 
is significant, and when we remember the fact that the few known indi- 
viduals came with importations of Cattleya Leopoldi var. pernambucensis 
and C. labiata, which grow together in the Pernambuco district, and that 
all flower together in the autumn, the demonstration is complete. It is 
about intermediate in habit, the short clavate pseudobulbs of C. labiata 
with a single longish leaf, and the longer more terete diphyllous ones of the 
other parent being equally well represented, though both are somewhat 
modified in shape, as is invariably the case. The flowers are as unmistak- 
ably intermediate, in size, shape, and colour, though the lip is most like 
that of C. Leopoldi in shape. The spots of the latter are nearly oblite- 
rated, as they usually are in hybrids derived from it, but a few minute purple 
dots were present near the tips of some of the petals. This plant was 
exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on November 27th 
last, side by side with the one from the collection of Hamar Bass, Esq., 
Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent, to which we have previously alluded, and 
attracted a large amount of attention. Both of them present the same 
curious combination of characters, and we consider that both the origin and 
parentage of this handsome Cattleya are now conclusively proved. We 
only know of these two plants, though we are told that there is another 
somewhere in Belgium, and that there may be as many as half a dozen 
altogether in cultivation. The remainder which were sold under this name 
have proved to be C. Leopoldi var. pernambucensis, one of the parents. 
Viewed in the above light its rarity is not surprising, but we have the 
satisfaction of knowing that our remarks induced hybridists to take the 
matter in hand, so that a larger stock will in due time be forthcoming, 
though the plants cannot reach the flowering size for several years. It 
only remains to add that the present plant was obtained from Messrs. F. 
Sander and Co., St. Albans, in March, 18g2, at one of their sales, and that 
the colour of the flowers is a nearly uniform light rose-purple of very 
pleasing shade. 
CATASETUM x SPLENDENS VAR. IMPERIALE. 
Another very remarkable and handsome Catasetum has flowered with 
Messrs. Linden, L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, for which the 
- name of C. imperiale, Lind. and Cogn., has been proposed. It has a lip 
almost like that of C. Bungerothii in shape, but somewhat verrucose inside, 
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