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natives of Bahia, there is no longer room for doubt as to its origin and 
parentage, for it combines the characters of the two species in the most 
unmistakable way. The original plant passed into the collection of 
Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., of Woolton Wood, Liverpool, and was well 
figured in the Orchid Album (iii. t. 115), and in Gartenflora (1884, p. 197, 
t. 1159). The plant is rather dwarf in habit, having stoutish pseudobulbs 
and rather short, broad leaves. The pseudobulbs, as might be expected 
from the parentage, are sometimes monophyllous, and sometimes 
diphyllous. The flowers are most like C. Schilleriana in shape, and C. 
Warneri in colour, though considerably modified in both respects. One 
from Sir Frederick Wigan’s plant has the sepals 3} inches long, the petals 
of the same length, and 13 inches broad, somewhat undulate, and of a 
brilliant rose-purple shade. The strongly three-lobed lip is 3 inches long, 
with the front lobe over 2 inches broad, undulate, and of a brilliant 
amethyst colour, the side lobes suffused with light purple, and the yellow 
disc being smaller than in the original form. It is an extremely handsome 
Cattleya, and seems to be rare in a wild state, so that it would be interest- 
ing to cross the two species together, with a view of increasing the stock, as 
well as of confirming the parentage. 
Since the above was in type I have found a record, previously over- 
looked, showing that this hybrid has also been raised artificially. At a 
meeting of the Société nationale d’Horticulture de France, held on June 
24th, 1897, a hybrid was exhibited by M. G. Mantin, under the name of 
Cattleya x Russelliana, which had been raised from C. Warneri crossed 
with the pollen of C. Schilleriana, and which was awarded a Gold Medal ; 
also a First-class Certificate on July 8th following. The seed was sown in 
July 1892, and the first flower expanded in May 1897 (Chron. Orch., p. 53): 
It is evidently a form of C. X Whitei, and I should much like the oppor- 
tunity of comparing the two together. 
7 P 8 S R. A. ROLFE. 
ONCIDIUM x HAMATOCHILUM. 
AT last we have some confirmatory evidence of the hybrid origin of this 
beautiful Oncidium, of which a figure was given at page 273. Messrs. 
Hugh Low and Co. have flowered three plants out of an importation of 
O. Lanceanum, and also some plants of O. luridum. This is the only 
direct evidence we have yet met with so far as cultivated Orchids are 
concerned, for Mr. Potter’s interesting note was based on observations on 
the plant in a wild state. Considering the various importations of O. 
Lanceanum that have reached this country, it is remarkable that the 
habitat of O. x hzmatochilum should have remained so long unknown. 
