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even to the diameter. The lip has nothing of the yellow of that species, 
but its deep blackish-purple makes a wonderful impression. The pollinia 
are exactly like those of Laelia elegans. The wishes of Messrs. Harry and 
Arthur Veitch coincided in the dedication of this beauty to Mr. Dominy, 
whose merits are too well known to require me to speak more of them. 
The plant received the most distinguished of London and suburban visitors 
at its domicile, and then crossed the Channel for Versailles, and now two 
of the flowers lie before one very distinctly, showing the fatigues of 
travelling and of being exhibited.” Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1878, x. p. 332. 
Two plants were originally raised, the second of them, having white sepals 
and petals faintly flushed with amethyst purple on the distal half, and a 
much paler lip, being described as L. X Dominiana rosea (Douglas in Gard. 
Chron., 1881, xvi., pp. 53, 108). This received a First-class Certificate from 
the Royal Botanical Society in 1881, and Mr. Douglas stated that it was 
the last of Mr. Dominy’s seedlings, which was raised fifteen years previously 
from L. X exoniensis crossed with C. Dowiana, and was then flowering 
for the first time. 
_ Commenting on the uncertainty about the parentage, Messrs. Veitch 
suggested that the type might yet have to be relegated to Cattleya, as one 
parent was unquestionably C. Dowiana, and the probability was great that 
C. Mossiz was the other; but respecting the variety they surmised that 
Lelia purpurata was used. ‘‘ Be the parents what they may,” they add, 
‘‘both forms are exceedingly handsome and distinct from all other hybrids. 
We are not without hope that the numerous seedlings in our nursery that 
have not yet flowered, but whose parentages have been carefully registered, 
may eventually afford the means of determining the parentage of both the 
above.” (Vettch Man. O. ii., p. 95). This was in 1887, and at last the 
matter has been set at rest, for the unequal pollinia of the type show that 
one parent must have been a Lelia. It has since been suggested, mainly 
on account of the dark sepals and petals, that this plant had Lelia 
Boothiana for the second parent (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, vi., p. 79); 
but this idea may now be given up. Both plants passed into Baron 
Schréder’s fine collection. 
It now appears that the parentage might have been settled earlier, had 
the necessary comparison been made, for Lelio-cattleya x Sir William 
Ingram, which received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. in April, 1896, 
was raised in the collection of C. Ingram, Esq., of Godalming, from L. 
purpurata ¢ and C. Dowiana ¢ (O. R., iv., p. 156); and L.-c. X 
Apollonia, which received a similar award in November following, when 
exhibited by Mr. James Douglas, of Great Bookham (O.R., v. p. 26), was 
also derived from the same parentage. Then L.-c. X tyntesfieldensis, from 
the collection of G. W. Law Schofield, Esq., which received a First-class 
