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does grow in the district would have done equally well. I fail to trace 
any of the characters of C. superba, but C. Loddigesii is written large all 
over the flower. The shape and colour are just what would be expected 
from a cross—one does not expect to find the characters of any parent 
handed on unmodified—and on spreading the lip open the pale yellow 
colour and arrangement of the nerves so characteristic of C. Loddigesii are 
unmistakable. The dwarfed habit of the plant, the sometimes mono- 
phyllous pseudobulbs, the four additional pollinia (now normally developed), 
and the rich purple of the front lobe of the lip, are especially eloquent 
about Lelia pumila. And the problem may be attacked by another 
method, as fortunately artificially raised hybrids from the two species are 
in existence, and a comparison between them leaves no doubt that all are 
derived from the same two species. L. pumila 2 crossed with C. Loddigesii 
by M. Ch. Maron, produced Lelio-cattleya x blesensis (Will. Orch. Alb., 
Xi, t. 519, syn. Cattleya x blesensis, Rev. Hort., 1893, p. 424, with plate), 
and C. Loddigesii ? crossed with L. pumila 3 by M. Perrenond, yielded 
L.-c. X Vedasti, Orchidophile, 1891, p. 48, with plate), and must now rank 
as forms of this interesting natural hybrid which has for so long remained 
imperfectly known. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
L/ZELIA GRANDIFLORA ALBA. 
WHEN giving the history of this plant at page 202 it was remarked :— “‘ The 
white variety is very rare, if indeed it exists in Europe.’”’ We have since 
found an earlier record of the variety, though, unfortunately, it does not 
clear up the doubtful point. At all events Reichenbach wrote the following 
note in 1880 (Gard. Chron., 1880, Xiv., p. 588). What ultimately became of 
the plant we do not know. 
“ LALIA MAJALIS ALBA.—Mr. Petrasch, one of the numerous Roezlian 
nephews, has had the good fortune to gather a white form of Lelia majalis. 
Ifthe plant should come into the hands of anyone who can manage the shy 
flowers, then we may have cause to well satisfied. Generally, one thinks 
that ventilation constitutes the secret of flowering this shy plant; it may be 
so, but I have no doubt that intensity of light is the one other requisite. i 
have seen beautiful flowers of a grand expansion only in England. I 
remember the glorious flowers seen in the Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea. 
Yet all those flowers had the most pallid colouring. My native grown dried 
flowers, though collected nearly forty years ago, show much brighter colour. 
Thus, I am afraid, this is one of those species which offer to New York an 
Paris growers the uncommon opportunity of beating their English confréres.” 
