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known by one name—e.g., Adamara—while a second name—e.g., Linneara— 
would need to be coined for Dialelia x Brassocattleya, and this name 
would stand for all combinations of the four genera, Diacrium, Lelia, 
Brassavola, and Cattleya. 
6. The specific name should preferably be of the Latin form, and 
should in all cases be preceded by the sign x ; where necessary a varietal 
name may be attached. This suggestion is made in order that combinations 
such as Leliocattleya x Doris superbissima may be avoided. 
7. Every endeavour should be made to secure the adequate registration 
of the parentage of all hybrids, so that there may never be any doubt 
concerning the combinations indicated in the names. 
8. It is not desirable that existing names should be changed. 
The Committee feels sure that by adopting the recommendations set 
forth above, simple, euphonious, and distinctive names may be coined 
which will be convenient for ordinary use and not liable to be confounded 
with existing generic names. ; 
_ These recommendations were approved by the Council, subject to their 
ratification by the International Congress of Horticulture to be held at 
Brussels. 
A list of existing bigeneric hybrids is appended to the report, these 
agreeing with the list given at pp. 80, 82 of our sixteenth volume, with two 
Subsequent additions, Miltonioda, derived from Miltonia and Cochlioda, 
and Oncidioda, from Oncidium and Cochlioda. The two trigeneric hybrids 
are given as Brassocattlelia, from Brassavola, Cattleya and Lelia, and 
Sophroleliocattleya, from Sophronitis, Cattleya and Lelia, instead of 
Brassocatlelia and Sophrocatlelia, as in our list, but the latter, we would 
point out, is inadmissible. A quadrigeneric hybrid between Sophronitis, 
Brassavola, Cattleya and Lelia is mentioned as not yet bloomed or named. 
A note is appended to the Report to the effect that the foregoing 
recommendations may be subject to slight alterations when the text of the 
findings of the Brussels Conference appears. 
_ A subsequent note (Proceedings, pp- Xcvi.-xcvil.) points out that Dr. A. 
B, Rendle and Mr. E. A. Bowles were the delegates from the Royal 
Horticultural Society to the Horticultural Congress at Brussels, at which 
the whole question of the Nomenclature of garden plants came under 
consideration, and they report that it was decided to adopt the rules of 
botanical nomenclature adopted by the Vienna Congress 
some modifications and additions as regards horticultural varieties and 
hybrids of cultivated plants. A provisional summary is given, but it is 
remarked that the Rules of Nomenclature agreed to at 
of 1905, with 
? the Congress are 
not yet published. It is, however, hoped to give the precise wording of 
the findings in due course. 
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