THE ORCHID REVIEW. 61 
These plants have three things to recommend them. They give the greatest 
display in mid-winter, and last longer than any other Orchid without 
injuring the plant, while the fog, that injures or destroys almost every other 
Orchid flower, has little or no effect upon them. I believe they will be 
much more extensively grown in the future than in the past. 
R. JOHNSON. 
Whitefield. 
LAZELIO-CATTLEYA: x DELICATA. 
Two years ago a plant flowered .in the Kew collection which had been 
received from the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, m.p., as Lelio-cattleya X 
amanda, though the flowers proved to be quite distinct, being apparently 
intermediate between Lelia crispa and Cattleya Forbesii. Mr. Chamberlain 
states that it was an imported plant purchased under that name. It has 
now flowered again, and proves quite constant in character. The flower is 
smaller than in Lelio-cattleya x amanda, and the petals are markedly 
crisped and undulate. The front lobe of the lip, too, is strongly veined 
with deep purple on a much paler ground, and all these characters would 
be expected in a hybrid from Lelia crispa. The sepals and petals are 
delicate blush-pink, with slightly darker veins, and the disc and side lobes 
of the lip have that characteristic veining which is seen in all the hybrids of 
Cattleya Forbesii—purple down the centre, and passing into yellowish on 
the side lobes—a character which is more markedly developed in the parent 
alluded to. The lip is also tinged with yellow below the front lobe and 
just inside the throat. The plant has both one-leaved and two-leaved 
Pseudobulbs. Both the parents grow near Rio de Janeiro, and we now 
have pretty clear evidence that they grow intermixed. The two most 
Natural hybrids are L.-c. X amanda (L. Boothiana X C.’ intermedia) and 
L.-c.- x Verelii (L. Boothiana x C. Forbesii). I hope that some of our 
hybridists will attempt the cross. ek BSR 
ORCHIDS AT KEW. 
AMONG the interesting Orchids which have recently flowered at Kew pei 
be mentioned a fine species of Listrostachys from West Tropical Africa: 
allied to L, Chailluana, but remarkable for having all the long spurs hooked 
atthe tip. It has been named and is to be described as Listrostachys 
hamata (Rolfe) in allusion to this character. It is interesting to record that 
the plant of Moorea irrorata is now throwing up two fine spikes. a 
riginally appeared at Glasnevin, and a figure was given in the Botanical 
Magazine (t. 7262), 
