50 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
St. Albans. It was also introduced direct by M. Vuylsteke, of Loochristi, 
who flowered and exhibited it at Paris in 1889, after which it passed into 
the collection of M. Jules Hye, of Ghent. The late Richard Pfau speaks of 
its habitat in Costa Rica as very restricted (Orch. Rev., ii, p. 296). It 1s 
readily distinguished from O. coronarium by its far larger flowers, with very 
undulate sepals and petals. The flowers on a strong plant measure over 
three inches in diameter, and are red-brown in colour with the exception of 
the lip, which is yellow. Mr. Groves’ plant is on a raft about 3ft. long by 
23ft. broad, the raft being covered with living sphagnum moss, which is kept 
constantly moist. Ordinary Cool house treatment is given, and the plant 
thrives splendidly, having increased three-fold in size during the three years 
that it has been in the collection. When exhibited at the Drill Hall the 
plant carried two strong inflorescences, about three feet high, and these 
bore respectively thirty-one and thirty-two flowers, as shown in the picture. 
It is a noble species when thus grown, and the flowers are much hand: 
somer than they appear in the figure, for this colour seldom comes out well 
in a photograph. Mr. Groves remarks, that the sphagnum is covered with 
small sundews (Drosera rotundifolia) which thrive splendidly in the moist 
medium. Some of these may be seen in flower if the picture is examined — 
with a lens, but they are much more distinct in the original photograph. 
LALIO-CATTLEYA x DOMINIANA LANGLEYENSIS. 
We have received from Messrs. James Veitch and Sons a four-flowered 
inflorescence of the above beautiful hybrid, which received a First-class 
Certificate trom the R.H.S. on October 11th last. It was raised from 
Lelia purpurata ? and Cattleya Dowiana 3g, and thus settles a doubt 
about the parentage of the original type, which flowered just twenty years 
previously. It was originally described by Reichenbach under the 
name of Lelia x Dominiana, as follows :—‘ All the staff of the 
Veitchian nursery was in great excitement lately about ‘the seedling. 
The seedling had flowered. ‘The seedling!’ you say, wondering, since 
there are thousands and thousands of seedlings at the Royal Exotic 
Nursery. You are-right ; but the seedling kai exochen was understood by 4 
kind of universal suffrage to be Mr. Dominy’s seedling, a cross betwee? 
Cattleya Dowiana and some Lelia, probably elegans. There were three 
beautiful buds, and one expanded on Sunday, August 11, just at 12 o’clock, — 
to the ecstacy of those present. The plant has the habit of a Venezuelan 
Cattleya Mossiz, but the leaves are longer, and remind one of Lelia elegans- 
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The sepals are light purple, with dark reticulations, which remind one of 
the first named species. The petals and lip are nearly those of C. Dowiana, 
