2y2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
was not sown until June, 1896. Mr. Orpet states that the sepals and petals 
are pale blush pink, somewhat veined, and less expanded than in L. pumila, 
which latter parent the lip most resembles in form and colour. It is the 
first of a batch of over twelve hundred seedlings of various kinds to bloom, 
but others are approaching the flowering stage. é 
CATTLEYA LUEDDEMANNIANA WITH FOUR LIPS 
A veRY remarkable flower of Cattleya Lueddemanniana has appeared in 
the collection of J. Wilson Potter, Esq., of Croydon. It consists of two 
sepals, four lips, and a straight, imperfect column in the centre, which 
apparently consists of three united styles only, the anther being entirely 
wanting. The two sepals present are the lateral ones, and the true lip 
stands in the same relation to them as in a normal flower. The two 
petals and the dorsal sepal are transformed into lips, though rather smaller 
than the normal one. That this is what has actually taken place is quite 
clear, for the middle one of the three additional lips arises from the 
point of insertion of the dorsal sepal, and the two others from that of the 
petals. These three additional lips are united for about three lines at the 
base, which helps us to understand why all have behaved alike. The 
anther has thus wandered away from its normal union with the column, 
and has become entangled with the united petals and sepals, and develop- 
ing with them, has changed all into lip-like tissue, in the same way that two 
anthers are united with the median petal, and modified into staminodes to 
form the normal lip. It is a very instructive and interesting flower, and in 
departure from the normal, a sort of advance on the Cattleya Mendelii 
figured at page 241. 
R. A. R. 
CATTLEYA x WHITEI. 
ADDITIONAL plants of this handsome natural hybrid have appeared, a parti- 
cularly fine form having flowered in the collection of Sir Frederick Wigan, 
Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen, which received an Award of Merit from the 
R.H.S., on August 15th last, under the name of Wigan’s variety. It came 
out of an importation made by Messrs. John Cowan & Co., of Gateacr® 
Another plant has flowered in the collection of S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley 
ee Manchester. It was originally described in 1882, from a unique 
plant imported by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., which was said to have bee 
found by their collector, Mr. White, growing on a tree in company 
with C. labiata and C. Schilleriana (Rchb. f in Gard. Chron., 1882, Xvill 
P- 586). Mr. Boxall, however, told me that it was C. Warneri 
Schilleriana with which it was found, and as both are now known to be 
