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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 3 
LAELIA x NIGRESCENS, 
WE are now able to give an illustration of the pretty little Lelia xX 
nigrescens, reproduced from a photograph, kindly sent by Mr. E. A. Orpet, 
of the plant described at page 291 of our last issue—and here we may remark 
that by some inexplicable blunder, which was only discovered too late for 
correction, the plant appeared as “‘ Lzlio-cattleya” instead of Lelia, which 
our readers are requested to correct. Mr. Orpet states that it received a 
Certificate from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society under the name of 
Lelia x Alpha, which name was given under the impression that it had not 
previously been recorded, and in allusion to the fact that is was the first of 
Fic..17. LAELIA X NIGRESCENS. 
over 1,000 seedlings to bloom. The way it combines the characters oe 
two parents will be at once apparent, it being most like L. ais , with 9 
sepals and petals considerably elongated. It is a very pretty little plant, and 
in view of the fact that but little over three years had elapsed from ee 
f scwing the seed when the first flower appeared, jor Ai ar “a 
improve considerably when it becomes stronger. We believe that Ag 
other hybrids atl. Seiabcins may be expected to flower very shortly, a 
§00d many crosses were made with it during the first few years = 
introduction, which event dates from a decade ago. 
