284 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, I9Q11. 
years, is unfortunately becoming rare in its native habitat. Owing to its 
beautiful colouring, this Cattleya has proved invaluable to the hybridist, 
many gorgeous Orchids having this species as one of their parents. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A VERY pretty hybrid, derived from Leliocattleya Lucia x Cattleya Mossiz 
Wageneri, has been sent from the collection of the Right Hon. Joseph 
Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham, by Mr. Mackay, who states 
that it has been raised in the collection. It may be described as fairly 
ntermediate in shape and size, while the lip is bright rose-purple in front, 
and the rest of the flower light yellow. It is a bright and attractive hybrid, 
and should develop into a good thing. 
A striking hybrid, derived from Leliocattleya bletchleyensis and 
Cattleya Grossii, has been sent from the establishment of Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, Langley, Slough, by Mr. Briscoe. It is said that the 
Leliocattleya was the mother plant, but, curiously enough, the flower has 
taken almost entirely the shape of the Cattleya parent, the lip being some- 
what recurved and broadly expanded in front, and the side lobes nearly 
obsolete. The colour is bright rosy purple almost throughout. The seedling 
is at present very small, and it should develop into a fine thing when the 
plant becomes strong. 
An interesting hybrid is sent from the establishment of Messrs. Sander, 
& Sons, Bruges, which is said to have been derived from Cattleya 
calummata crossed with the pollen of Brassavola Digbyana. The lip is 
very deeply three-lobed, with a broad somewhat reflexed and fringed front 
lobe, and infolded side lobes, the colour being white. The sepals and 
petals are greenish white, and rather more elongated than in the seed 
parent. It is rather curious that the flower should have taken so much 
after the Cattleya parent in shape and the Brassavola in colour. 
The autumn-flowering Cattleyas and Leliocattleyas will soon be making 
a fine display, particularly the hybrids partly derived from C. Dowiana, 
Warscewiczii, Leopoldii, and bicolor, with the numerous secondary hybrids 
in which they are more or less represented. They forma very large and 
brilliant series. Then there will be the hybrids of Lelia Perrinii and 
crispa, both very distinct and beautiful, and the fine series raised from 
L. pumila and Dayana, which are mostly of dwarfer habit, but very 
floriferous and beautiful. Those from Cattleya labiata and Bowringiana 
are generally a little later, but the species are now so much mixed that it 
is difficult to place them in anything like an exact sequence. Vanda 
cerulea will also be making a grand display, and with a few other species 
will keep our houses gay for several weeks to come. 
