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be J 
x L. purpurata = L. x Latona,” the sign is used in both senses. But 
when both parents are themselves hybrids we get the following: ‘‘ Lelia x 
Latona X Cattleya X Hardyana — Leliocattleya X Jason,” which requires 
at least a mental effort to understand. The remarkable increase in the 
number of hybrids renders some change absolutely necessary, and for the 
future we must be content to write ‘‘ Lelia Latona xX Cattleya Hardyana 
== Leliocattleya Jason.”’ The alternative is unthinkable. 
HYBRIDS RAISED AT KEW. 
A CONSIDERABLE number of hybrids of various kinds have been raised at 
Kew, and on account of the general interest and importance of the question 
a list of them has been brought together, and appears in the last issue of the 
Kew Bulletin (pp. 321-328). It contains a few Orchids, which are here 
extracted :-— 
CYNORCHIS KEWENSIs (C. purpurascens X C. Lowiana). The seedlings 
raised from this cross, made in 1901, flowered in 1903. In habit they 
resemble C. Lowiana, the flowers being intermediate in size and dull 
purple-red in colour. 
DisA KEWENSIS (D. grandiflora x D. tripetaloides). This hybrid was 
the result of a cross effected in 1891, and flowered in eighteen months from 
the sowing of the seed. The flowers are intermediate in colour, 14 inches in 
diameter, with bright rose lateral sepals; the dorsal sepal is hooded, as in 
D. tripetaloides, light pink in colour, with a few light red spots. The 
labellum is concave, pink, shading off at the base to pale yellow, and sen 
with light red. Figured in Gartenflora, 1903, t. 1510. 
Disa PREMIER (D. tripetaloides x D. Veitchii). This plant resulted 
from a cross made in 1891. D. Veitchii, the male parent, is itself a hybrid 
between D. grandiflora and D. racemosa. The flowers are rich rosy- 
crimson, larger than those of D. racemosa. It was exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Society meeting on October 1oth, 1893, and received a First- 
class Certificate.: . 
EPIDENDRUM KEWENSE (E. xanthinum x evectum). The reverse cross 
was also made. The first seedling from this cross, made in 1899, flowered 
in twenty months from germination. These hybrids showed diverse shades 
of colouring, the bulk of them being dull red or buff, suffused with yellow. 
A few flowers were self-pollinated, and also crossed with both parents. For 
further information, see Orchid Review, 1907, pp. 58, 122. 
SPATHOGLOTTIS KEWENSIS (S. plicata var. Micholitzii x S. Visillacdiiy, 
This hybrid, produced in 1g00, flowered in 1903. The colour of the flowers 
mostly resembles that of the female, being bright reddish-purple, two inches . 
in diameter, with the pale yellow markings on the lip and column which are 
characteristic of S. eS var. Micholitzii. 
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