216 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JULY, Ig1t. 
and‘ has been extended along the front of the greenhouse from which the 
Orchid house was partitioned off, and includes four lights. There are 
two divisions, one light being intended for warm-growing Cypripedes, one 
for seedlings and such things as will succeed with them, and the remaining 
two lights for Odontoglossums, cool-growing Cypripedes, &c. The plants 
were doing well, but the fact that the lights have to be lifted in order to 
give the plants the necessary attention must be a great drawback in cold 
weather. Squares of felt are laid on the glass when necessary to conserve 
the heat. 
In. the first frame were oC elon a pandurata and a numbar of Cypri- 
pediums, C. Lawrenceanum being in bud, as also was Bulbophyllum Dearei, 
while in the next frame was Cypripedium Rothschildianum in bud, with a 
few seedlings, various C. insigne, Oncidium Kramerianum, Leptotes bicolor, 
&c., the plants being to some extent under re-arrangement. The Cool 
Frame contained a number of interesting things, including Cymbidium 
Tracyanum and grandiflorum, Odontoglossum crispum in spike, a small 
plant of O. c. Leonard Perfect, four plants of O. grande in good condition, 
©. Pescatorei, and a few seedlings from various sources, these including 
O. Wilckeanum X luteopurpureum, and O. Edwardii X Hunnewellianum, 
both of almost flowering size, O. amabile, and a hybrid of O. Harryanum. 
Oncidium tigrinum was growing well, also Zygopetalum Mackayi, while 
Masdevallia Chimera was pushing a spike. Cypripediums included C. 
insigne Harefield H allvar. x villosum, and C. aureum crossed..with Boxallii. 
and with C. Charlesworthii, these and others being raised: in the collection. 
Various other Cypripedes were pointed out, but we must pass them over. 
Mr. Harrison is very enthusiastic, and has a number of experiments in 
progress, the results of which we may hear of in due time. 
LALIOCATTLEYA AMANDA. 
A very interesting generic hybrid, derived from Lelia Boothiana crossed 
with the pollen of Cattleya intermedia, is now flowering at Kew. :The 
cross was made several years ago in the hope of proving the parentage of 
the natural hybrid “L#liocattleya*amanda. There are about a dozen 
seedlings, one of which produced a single flower last autumn, which I did 
not see, and now a two-flowered spike has appeared, while two others are 
in sheath. The natural hybrid in question appeared in the establishment 
of Mr. W. Bull, Chelsea, and was described by Reichenbach under the 
name of-~ Lelia amanda (Gard. Chron., 1882, ii. p. 778), the author 
remarking: “* No doubt a hybrid, to judge by the very unequal pollinia.. 
- + « What were the parents? There is no difficulty in thinking of 
Cattleya intermedia, from the nature of the lip. The other parent may 
have been Lelia crispa.”” Two years later it was figured in the Orchid. 
