310 THE OKCHID REVIEW. 
LASLIO-CATTLEYA x REGINA. 
Ar page 313 of our fifth volume a pretty hybrid, raised by Mr. James 
Cypher, of Cheltenham, between Lelia purpurata ? and Cattleya Forbes 
3 was described, under the name of Lzlio-cattleya X Cypheri. Shortly 
before this, however, we find that a similar cross, raised by Mr. Se Mantin, 
was exhibited at a meeting of the Société Nationale d’Horticulture de 
France, on July 22nd, 1897, under the name of L.-c. X Regine (Chron. 
Orch.), p. 55. 
Still earlier a hybrid from C. intermedia ¢ and L.-c. X elegans Deshi 
¢, from the collection of C. Ingram, Esq., was exhibited at a meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society as L.-c. X Regina (Orchid Review, V-» P- 62), 
though the fact that this very hybrid had previously been exhibited as L.-c- 
X Cicero (Orchid Review, iv., p. 62) prevents its adoption, and the scarcely 
different name of L.-c. x Regine should therefore be adopted for the pre- 
sent one. 
The reverse cross has now been raised by Mr. T. Spencer, Goodrich 
Court, Ross, Herefordshire, the seed having been obtained from C. Forbesit 
crossed with the pollen of L. purpurata. The pseudobulbs, leaves, and 
spathes, however, closely resemble the pollen parent, except in being rather 
smaller, while the flowers are fairly intermediate. The sepals and rather 
broader petals are lilac-rose, with darker veins, and the lip tubular, orange 
yellow, with dark reddish veins, as in the seed-bearer, with the apex of the 
three lobes purple. It is very similar to the original hybrid, and, of course, 
will bear the same name. 
HABITATS OF INDIAN CYPRIPEDIUMS. 
ARE we on the eve of some important discovery with respect to the 
habitats of the Indian Cypripediums? Those who remember the facts 
recently brought together in these pages (O.R., v-, pp. 51-23 Vl» Ps 76; 
and vii., pp. 172-3) will admit that there are good grounds for such a query- 
And now an additional fact bearing on the same question may be recorded. 
Mrs. Colston, Roundway Park, Devizes, purchased some imported plants 
as Cypripedium insigne montanum at one of the sales at Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris’ Rooms, and one of them, which has now flowered, proves to 
be C. Spicerianum. Whether the two actually grew together is more than 
I can say, but if so, it would explain the record of the occurrence of C. x 
Leeanum as a wild plant (O.R. vi., p. 76). Even more important in some 
respects is the tull identification of the doubtful C. x Arthurianum, said 
to have come in the same importation, for is not the mysterious C. 
Fairrieanum one parent of the Jatter hybrid? The occurrence of C. 
