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covered with them, and many fell into the cisterns beneath. Three days 
sufficed to clear away the wreckage, and repot the plants, when, fortunately, 
it was found that the material damage was not great. The damage to 
property generally was enormous. 
An error crept into our account of the Selwood Sale, with respect to 
Lelia X Oweniz, which at page 205 is said to have fetched eleven guineas. 
Mr. Statter writes to say that he purchased it for thirty guineas, and that 
Mr. Owen gave over hundred guineas for it originally. It is now producing 
a very strong growth, from which a fine inflorescence is expected. 
Mr. Statter also states that his plants of Cattleya Dowiana aurea, some 
twenty in number, are simply superb, every one of them flowering. They 
grow like weeds. Some notes of Mr. Statter’s method of treatment, and 
his success with this genus, were given at page 291 of our last volume. 
The hybrid Disas, which were mentioned in our last volume, have again 
made a great show in the Kew collection, and the house has been gay for 
weeks with their brilliant flowers. They seem to grow and flower with the 
utmost freedom. 
LALIO-CATTLEYA x SCHILLERIANA DELICATA. 
A very distinct and beautiful variety of Lelio-cattleya x Schilleriana 
has appeared in the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, 
Streatham, of which we have received the three-flowered inflorescence. 
The lip is nearly entire, and the colour blush-white, with the veins on the 
front lobe of the lip very light rosy purple, and a small oblong blotch of 
rather darker shade in the centre, just in front of the sulphur-white disc. 
This delicate veining of the lip, together with the crisped margin, is very 
beautiful, and sets off the blush-white of the rest of the flower very 
effectively. The pollen-masses are eight, but four are very small, as in all 
the hybrids between Cattleya and Lelia. On the whole it takes most after 
the Cattleya intermedia parent, except that the lip is nearly entire, and the 
petals broader, in which respect it approaches Lelia purpurata, the other 
parent. It is also rather smaller than most of the forms of Leelio-cattleya 
X Schilleriana, which more often resemble the Lelia parent in size, and in 
the large amount of purple in the front of the lip. It is most allied to L.-c. 
x S. leucotata (supra, ii., p. 237), in which, however, the front lobe of the 
lip is not veined with light rosy-purple, as in the present one, which is a 
very distinct and beautiful addition to the group. 
Sennett ath RSI 
