THE ORCHID REVIEW. 37 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
ANGRECUM X VEITCHII. 
Tuts handsome hybrid, the first artificially raised in the genus, flowered 
with Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, in January, 1899, and was awarded a 
First-class Certificate by the Royal ‘Horticultural Society, who at the same 
time presented a Silver Flora Medal to its raiser, Mr. Seden. It is now in 
the collection of W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., Hessle, near Hull, who sends a 
very fine flower from the certificated plant. It measures over six inches 
across its broadest diameter, and the spur is eight inches long. Its parents 
are said to have been A. sesquipedale 2, and A. eburneum @, but it has been 
shown that the A. eburneum of gardens is not the original plant of that 
name, but A. superbum (see Rolfe in Orch. Rev., vii., p. 19), and the latter, 
we suspect, was the actual pollen parent. A second plant has now flowered 
with Messrs. Veitch, who have forwarded the two-flowered scape. This 
form has smaller flowers, with narrower sepals and petals, and the spur 
measures 53 inches long. It will probably improve as it gains strength, but 
the sepals and petals are likely to remain narrower than in the original 
form. In both the flowers are ivory white with a green spur. It is a very 
striking hybrid. 
L#LIO-CATTLEYA X D10oGENES.—A_ hybrid raised by Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, from Lelia cinnabarina ? 
and Cattleya Leopoldi g, has just flowered in the collection of Reginald 
Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool. It is fairly intermediate in character, 
the sepals and petals being reddish-orange spotted with purple-brown, 
and the lip yellowish white tipped with rose-purple.—O’Brien, in Gard. 
Chron., 1900., XXiX., p. 53. 
SOPHROLELIA X VaLpA.—A hybrid raised by Messrs. James Veitch & 
Sons, from Sophronitis grandiflora x Lelia harpophylla. The flower 
is most like the Lelia parent in shape, but larger, and the flower light 
orange-yellow, without any trace of the characteristic markings of the 
Sophronitis parent on the lip.—O’Brien, /.c., p. 54. 
-  _DENpRoBIUM X ELLIst1.—This is a very pretty hybrid, raised in the 
collection of Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking, from D. nobile 
@ and D. Hildebrandii ¢. The inflorescence sent bears three flowers, 
which show the distinct twist in the sepals and petals so characteristic of 
the pollen parent. The sepals are prettily suffused with light rose-purple 
to below the middle, and the petals are tipped with similar colour, the 
remainder being white. The lip is broadly tubular, somewhat expanded at 
the apex, white, with a salmon-coloured disc, strongly recalling that of 
