48 THE ORCHID REVIEW. {[FEBRUARY, I9QII, 
(Gard. Chron., 1883, i. p. 142), from a plant which flowered in the collection 
of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks, the author remarking : 
“I thought of a hybrid between Lelia anceps and autumnalis, but the 
‘possessor, partly guided by the leaves, partly by the divaricate dark purple 
veins on the throat of the lip, prefers thinking of L. albida Stobartiana and 
L. anceps.” Mrs. Crawshay afterwards stated: ‘In the same mass of 
plants from which came the two plants of Lelia Crawshayana which I 
bloomed, I also bloomed L. albida Stobartiana, a broader variety than the 
common L. albida. - They were all three seedlings of about the same age 
(I. c., 1890, i. p. 78). ei 
Other plants were subsequently referred to L. Crawshayana, not always 
correctly, and a discussion arose as to the parentage, which is re-opened 
and only partly settled by the appearance of the above hybrid, for two, if 
not three hybrids are included under the records, as will be seen from a 
brief recapitulation of the facts. 
Almost immediately after L. Crawshayana was described, Mr. W. 
Gostling wrote about another plant in the collection at Sudbury House, 
Hammersmith (Gard. Chron., 1883, i. p. 180), but from the description I 
believe this was not L. Crawshayana, but a hybrid between L. anceps and 
L. autumnalis. Over a year later Reichenbach described a plant from the 
collection of M. A. A. Peeters, Brussels, as L. C. var. leucoptera (J. c., 1884, 
1. p. 577). ‘It afterwards passed into the collection of Baron Schréder, and 
I pointed out its distinctness, and called it L. leucoptera, suggesting L. 
albida and L. autumnalis as the parents (/. c., 1890, i. pp. 42, 135). 
In 1888, Reichenbach described L. Gouldiana, remarking that it was 
near L. Crawshayana, and might be a variety of it, or derived from the 
reverse cross, and he further suggested L. autumnalis and perhaps L. 
anceps as possible parents (J. ¢., 1888, i. p. 41). Shortly afterwards I had 
to deal with L. Crawshayana in the List of Garden Orchids, and remarked, 
" atig probably a natural hybrid between L. albida and L. anceps”’ (i. ¢., 
P- 256), though I had not then seen the original plant. 
In 1890 the accession of fresh materials re-opened the question, and 
Mr. Crawshay showed that plants passing in gardens as L. Crawshayana 
were different from his original (J. c., 1890, i. p- 78). About this time 
another plant of L. Crawshayana flowered with Messrs. Sander, which I 
remarked ‘‘ seems to me a hybrid between L. albida and L. anceps”’ (1. ¢., 
P- 135). 
Shortly afterwards Mr. Thorp made the experiment which now proves 
the correctness of this view, for his seedling possesses the same essential 
characters as L. Crawshayana. A figure of the original L. Crawshayana 
appeared in 1895 (Gooss. Dict. Ic. Orch., Lelia hyb. t. 8). 
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