340 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA xX VERELII. 
AN interesting natural hybrid Leelio-cattleya has just flowered in the 
collection of F. W. Vérel, Esq., The Grange, Newlands, near Glasgow. 
It was purchased two years ago from Messrs. John Cowan & Co., of 
Liverpool, as ‘‘ Lelia amanda,” but on flowering for the first time, proves 
to be different. Lzelio-cattleya x amanda is believed to be a natural 
hybrid between Cattleya intermedia and Lelia Boothiana, which is found 
where these two species grow together in some locality in Southern Brazil. 
Lelia Boothiana is evidently one parent of the present hybrid, but the other 
is as clearly Cattleya Forbesii, for the shape of the lip as well as the yellow 
disc and the characteristic veining, are all strongly stamped upon the 
hybrid, much in the same way as in Lelio-cattleya x Regine (p. 310) 
which also has C. Forbesii for one parent. In the same district C. Forbesii 
and C. intermedia also intercross, producing the natural hybrid C. X 
Krameriana (for which C. x Isabella is perhaps an earlier name), so that 
the present hybrid completes the possible combinations between the three 
species. The flower is fairly intermediate in shape, and measures 54 inches 
across its broadest diameter. The sepals are seven lines broad, and the 
more lanceolate petals eleven lines, the colour being lilac-purple with 
rather darker veins. The lip is 2} inches long, and trilobed, with the 
strongly infolded side lobes flattened, as in C. Forbesii, and the colour and 
veining externally similar to the sepals and petals. The front lobe is an 
inch broad, by half as long, and the colour lilac-purple, with numerous 
radiating rose-purple lines, and a zone of similar colour at the top of the 
throat, and extending round the apex of the side lobes. The disc is light 
yellow, veined with reddish purple, in the way so characteristic of C. 
Forbesii. The column also most resembles this species in shape, and 
is suffused and veined with purple, while the pollinia are eight in number, 
four being large and four small, as in all hybrids between the two genera. 
It is precisely what one might expect to get by crossing the two species 
together » and it would be interesting to have the parentage confirmed by 
direct experiment. Whether the hybrid now appears for the first time, I 
am a little uncertain, but if not it has probably been passed over a5 
L.-c. X amanda, which itself is hardly yet properly understood. Reichen- 
bach called it ‘a very fine Lelia, no doubt a hybrid, to judge from the 
unequal pollinia, which suggests a Cattleya parentage,” adding, “ What 
sa i parents ? There is no difficulty in thinking of Cattleya intermedia, 
pee nicht x the lip. The other parent may have been Lzlia CHS 
ah Bienes — eka P- 776). Messrs. Veitch added L. Boothiana = 
plant figured tb ee mares ws scarcely be a doubt that te 
| e€ Orchid Album (iii. t. 135) is derived from this 
