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between L. purpurata and C. Leopoldi, and Schilleriana between iL 
purpurata and C. intermedia, and the author might have added that the 
second point had been confirmed by direct experiment. Leelio-cattleya 
Pittiana is mentiozed in a note as probably a natural hybrid between 
Lelia grandis and C. amethystoglossa, but Lelia Lindleyana is treated as 
a species, and the view that it is a natural hybrid between Cattleya 
intermedia and Brassavola tuberculata does not seem to have been con- 
sidered even worthy of mention. A good many points about these natural 
hybrids have been elucidated during recent years, and it is unfortunate that 
so little use has been made of them by M. Cogniaux in his revision. 
R. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A very beautiful series of Orchids is sent from the collection of the 
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.-P., Highbury, Birmingham, by 
Mr. Mackay. First may be mentioned a magnificent form of Lzlio-cattleya 
x Aphrodite, in which the best characters of Lelia purpurata and Cattleya 
Mendelii are combined. The sepals and petals are light blush, and the 
expanded part of the lip rich crimson-purple, with a deep yellow throat. 
L.-c. X radiata is also very beautiful, uniting the characters of L. purpurata 
and C. dolosa, the sepals and petals being rosy-lilac, and the lip obscurely 
three-lobed and more or less veined with dark purple on a lighter purple 
ground. A flower of Cattleya Mendelii has only two sepals and two petals, 
the lip being absent, and the column slender, laterally flattened, and with 
an imperfect anther. It is of great size, the petals measuring 44 inches 
long by 3 inches broad, and the colour blush white. A dozen forms of the 
brilliant Masdevallia coccinea (Harryana) show the wide range of colour 
seen in this handsome species, the most remarkable being var. armeniaca, 
whose flowers are of a peculiar orange-red, and var. Comet, of an intense 
crimson-scarlet. The others range from bright carmine down to light 
purple, and the flowers are splendidly developed, showing evidence of good 
culture. There are also flowers of M. caudata and M. X Shuttryana 
Chamberlainii, the latter a fine hybrid between the two preceding, most 
like M. caudata in general shape. 
A flower of the beautiful, light-coloured Cattleya Mendelii Morganiz is 
sent by Miss Mary Riley, Hapton House, Burnley. It was purchased 
from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. by the late John Riley, Esq., and is said to be 
part of the plant afterwards purchased by the Duke of Marlborough. The 
purple blotch on the front of the lip is more broken up than in the original 
figure (Orch, Alb., i., t. 6). The other is a fairly typical C. Mendelii, having 
light blush sepals and petals, and the expanded front lobe of the lip rich 
purple-crimson. 
