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Loddigesii X Leeliocattleya Issy, raised in the collection of W. Evans, 
Esq., Knighton Lodge, Leicester (gr. Mr. T. Cook). It is most like the 
Cattleya parent in shape, having a markedly three-lobed crisped lip, but is 
considerably darker in colour. It should develop into a good thing. 
CATTLEYA SORORIA, 
ANOTHER natural hybrid Cattleya must now be added to the list of those 
whose origin has been proved experimentally. Mr. T. Cook, gardener to 
W. Evans, Esq., Knighton Lodge, Leicester, sends a flower raised in the 
collection from C. Harrisoniana X bicolor, and asks for the name. He 
remarks: ‘‘ We have raised six plants of it, two of which have just flowered. 
They are only small at present.”’ This is very interesting, for the flower is 
identical with the natural hybrid C. sororia, Rchb. f. (Gard. Chron., 1887, 
i. p. 40), whose history has already been given (O. R., ix. p. 267). The 
flower agrees well with the one figured in the Orchid Album (vii. t. 307) 
which we have regarded as derived from C. bicolor and C. Harrisoniana. 
This experiment effectually disposes of Reichenbach’s suggestion that C. 
Walkeriana and C. guttata were the parents. In comparing the flower 
sent with C. sororia, Rchb. f., we are not overlooking our own suggestion 
that C. Wilsoniana, Rchb. f. (Gard. Chron., 1877, ii. p. 72) may be an 
earlier name for the same hybrid, but in this case we are dealing with 
certainties, and the origin of C. Wilsoniana is not quite that. We have 
given its history (O. R., ix. p. 266), and have appealed for further informa- 
tion in vain. Perhaps we shall know when the Reichenbachian Herbarium 
is opened. It came home with C. bicolor, and Reichenbach thought it 
should be regarded as a natural hybrid between it and perhaps C. inter- 
media. On the other hand, he said it had beautiful deep purple sepals and 
petals, which would scarcely come from the combination suggested. There 
is no mention of C. Harrisoniana, and in. the case of C. sororia that species 
was only mentioned to be dismissed. The whole story is contradictory, 
and we must congratulate Mr. Evans and his gardener in having placed one 
phase of the question beyond dispute. Will no one give us the cross 
between C. bicolor and C. intermédia ? Ri Aw Kk. 
CIRRHOPETALUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM. 
A PLANT of this handsome Cirrhopetalum has just flowered with Messrs. 
Sander & Sons, St. Albans, an inflorescence sent to Kew for determination 
proving identical with the one originally described. Its origin is not 
stated. C. Rothschildianum was described and figured in 1895 (O’Brien in 
Gard. Chron., 1895, ii. pp. 608, 609, fig. 102), from a plant which received a 
First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. in October of that year. It was 
