204 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
BRAZILIAN CATTLEYAS AND LALIAS. 
Tue last issued part of Martin’s Flora Brasiliensis is chiefly devoted to 
Cattleyas, Lzlias, and allied genera, and, as the latest revision of one of the 
most popular groups of Orchids in cultivation, deserves a short notice. Of 
the former genus thirty-four species are enumerated, the majority being 
understood in the same sense as in the classification given in this work a 
few years ago (Orch. Rev., iii:, pp. 266-270). But the following six, retained 
as species, must be deducted as being of natural hybrid origin — C. 
Patrociniil, C. sororia, C. Victoria-Regina, C. Whitei, C. Brymeriana, 
and C. Isabella. Three others are mentioned as natural hybrids, 
namely, C. intricata, C. scita, and C. Wilsoniana, and had the others 
been treated in the same way this would have reduced the Brazilian 
species to 28. But if we can congratulate M. Cogniaux on having adopted 
a rational arrangement of the species of the guttata group, we cannot speak 
of the labiata group in the same way. It is true that C. Eldorado is 
admitted as a species, but except in this single detail C. labiata is under- 
stood in the old aggregate sense, and this is how the question works itself 
out. First of all eleven ‘‘ varieties” are admitted, namely :—vera, Dow- 
iana, Gaskelliana, Lueddemanniana, Mendelii, Mossiz, Percivaliana, 
Schroeder, Trianz, Warneri, and Warscewiczii. Each of these “varieties” 
has again its own “varieties, 
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of which an enumeration is given. Thus 
under vera about 71 varieties are enumerated, Dowiana has 16, Gaskelliana 
11, Lueddemanniana 11, Mendelii 41, Percivaliana 6, Schroederz 7, War- 
neri 4, and Warscewiczii 20. Var. Mossiz seems to have been difficult to 
deal with, for we find a list of 83 in alphabetical order, and then batches of 
21, 37, 9, and 7, arranged in the same way, while Trianz has three batches 
of 118, 4, and 8 respectively. This makes a total ot about 474 “varieties 
of varieties,” for they are enumerated as such—of this so-called species C. 
labiata, to which a space of twenty pages is devoted, much of it closely 
printed in small type. Considering that over 84 per cent. of these forms 
are not Brazilian at all, one cannot help wondering why they are included 
in a Flora of Brazil. 
Lelia is divided into two sub-genera, Eulzlia and Lzlio-cattleya, the 
latter including three species, elegans, amanda, and porphyritis, though it is 
mentioned that they have been considered as natural hybrids. And here 
we get a still more complex nomenclature, for we find Lelia grandis var. 
tenebrosa, var. Gottoiana, var. marmorata, &c. Under Lelia elegans we find 
about 46 varieties enumerated, then a variety Schilleriana, of which latter 
variety 15 other ‘“‘varieties”’ are given, the whole requiring about six pages for 
the elucidation ofthe question. Thisis a totally unnecessary complication, 
for it is pointed out that Rolfe considers elegans as a natural hybrid 
