DECEMBER, IQITI. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 361 
LAELIOCATTLEYA VERELII. 
THE history of Lzliocattleya amanda and L.-c. Verelii, as recently given 
(pp. 216-218), and the suggestion that someone might prove the parentage 
of the latter (p. 361), has elicited a very interesting letter from Mr. T. L. 
Mead, Oviedo, Florida, accompanied by the photograph here reproduced. 
Mr. Mead remarks: “‘I notice your suggestion as to crossing Lelia 
Boothiana and Cattleya Forbesii. In October, 1902, I crossed a flower of 
L. Boothiana with pollen of C. Forbesii, C. Skinneri, and C. citrina. Four 
or five plants resulted, beginning to bloom in 1907, and all are evidently the 
Fig. 43. L#LIOCATTLEYA VERELII. 
Forbesii cross. I send a coloured photograph for inspection. The lip is 
rather brighter than the photo would indicate, and in colour is much like 
L. Boothiana, but the sepals and petals are greenish white on first expand 
ing, soon changing to pale lilac. Nearly all—perhaps quite all—the stems 
of my plants are two-leaved. 
quite dwarf, though it grows and flowers as freely as the others.” This is 
All are smaller than L. Boothiana, and one 
very. interesting, and although we have not seen an actual flower, we must 
regard the photograph as representing a form of L.-c. Verelii. Although 
