THE ORCHID REVIEW. 359 
Is, a newest sailor from Madagascar, if I rightly understand, en route for 
Mr. Steven‘s enormous room. The texture of the flowers, as far asI may 
Judge of it from dry specimens, is unusually strong and firm. Sepals 
oblong 3 petals ovate ; lip trifid, the side lacinie bread, angled, the middle 
lacinize protracted, narrower, emarginate. There are two grand obtuse- 
angled lamellz, and a small one between before the base of column, 
three smaller angular lamellz before the end of the lip, and both connected 
with emerging lines. ‘Colours?’ Don’t ask too much. The flower looks 
as if it had been white or light yellow, but I can take no responsibility 
But what I see most decidedly is some purplish hue on the tip of the lip. 
I obtained the flowers from my excellent correspondent, Mr. Luddemann, 
18, Boulevard d’Italie, Paris, the famous Orchid grower, who once directed 
Mr. Pescatore’s Orchidic Eden. They have been obtained by Mr. 
Roempler, of Nancy, who is said to have made a curious importation from 
that mysterious island Madagascar.” 
After comparing this note with dried specimens and figures I am quite 
Satisfied that the two plants are identical, so that another chapter is added 
to the history of this remarkable plant. It was the absence of flowers 
which prevented its being recognised when my original note was written 
(ante, v., p. 67), for I compared it at the time, but came to the conclusion 
that the description did not agree. 
k..A. R. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
L#LIO-CATTLEYA X WRIGLEYI. 
TuIs is a very interesting and pretty hybrid, raised in the collection of 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, from Lelia anceps ? and 
Cattleya Bowringiana ¢. The cross was"effected about ten years ago, and 
thus it has taken nearly ten years to reach the lowering stage. It is 
unmistakably intermediate between the two parents. A short scape carries 
a single terminal flower, which is most like Lelia anceps in the shape of the 
sepals and petals, but has an entire lip, approaching the Cattleya in shape 
but the other parent in the characteristic markings in the throat. The 
column is about intermediate in size and shape—that of the Cattleya 
Parent being only half as large as in the Lelia—and the pollinia are just 
those of Lzlio-cattleya, four large and four small. The sepal sand petals 
are of a pretty rose-purple shade, the front of the lip much darker, with a 
yellowish white area at the top of the throat, which latter is marked almost 
exactly as in Lelia anceps. Mr. Wrigley remarks that it is interesting to 
him as the “ only seedling Lzlio-cattleya” which he has “ raised and 
bloomed.” We hope that he will take care of it and grow it strongly, when 
