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LASLIA x DIANA. 
Last year a pretty little hybrid was described in these pages under the 
name of Lzlio-cattleya x Hurstii (p. 287). It had been purchased at the 
sale of the Selly Hill collection with the recorded parentage, “‘ Laelia 
purpurata X Cattleya Skinneri,” and at that time the record was not sus- 
pected. It has now flowered again and Captain Hurst has had the plant 
photographed, and points out certain characters which resemble Lelia 
Dayana, not Cattleya Skinneri. For example, the pollinia are of equal size, 
Fre. 34. Laria x DIANA. 
the leaves and flowers solitary, the latter appearing in late summer, on in- 
complete growths, and without a sheath, also the colour and scent of the 
flower, and some slightly raised keels on the lip, are evidently characters 
derived from Lzlia Dayana, and thus the parentage must be amended. 
hybrid between L. purpurata and L. Dayana has just been recorded in these 
pages as L. x Diana (p. 197), and though the present one is not so good a 
form as that, its essential characters agree, and it must be considered as a 
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