278 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1913. 
specimen was never returned by Reichenbach to its proprietor. It lies 
buried with the rest of the Orchids for twenty-five years, along with other 
uniques which had been entrusted to him.’ . . . Perhaps facts may 
yet come to light which will suggest a reason for acheaback S preposterous. 
act, which no one, not even its eccentric author, has yet satisfactorily 
explained.” 
Some interesting problems evidently await the opening of the Reichen- 
bachian Herbarium. 
For the loan of the block used to illustrate this article we are indebted 
to the courtesy of the Editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
LAELIOCATTLEYA CLARKII. 
A FLOWER of an interesting hybrid has been sent from the collection of E. 
F. Clark, Esq., Evershot, Dorset, of which the parentage is given as Cattleya 
picturata X Lelia purpurata, the former the plant noted at page 204 of our 
sixth volume a3 a natural hybrid between C. intermedia and C. Leopoldii, 
the latter a fine dark form with some purple veining in the petals. The 
cross was made in 1898, and the seedling, which is said to have been 
‘more than once divided,’ has now bloomed. The flower sent may be 
described as most like L.-c. Schiileriana in the shape and colour of the 
sepals and petals—which are white with a trace of purple veining—but 
nearer L.-c. elegans in the strongly three-lobed dark purple lip. From 
its composition it should naturally be intermediate between the two, and it 
may be added that the intercrossing of L.-c. Schilleriana and L.-c. elegans 
would yield a hybrid of identical composition. 
The appearance of this hybrid raises a very interesting question. 
Cattleya intermedia, C. Leopoldii, and Lelia purpurata grow together in 
South Brazil, and yield the three natural hybrids mentioned above, all of 
which have also been raised artificially. The two Leliocattleyas are known 
to be very variable, and the question is how far this may be due to secondary 
crossing in a wild state. Two secondary hybrids have been recorded, 
namely, L.-c. Phillip Stokes (L.-c. elegans X C. Leopoldii) and L.-¢. 
Queen Alexandra (L.-c. Schilleriana X L. purpurata), concerning which 
“ Argutus ” remarks: ‘‘ The wonder is, considering the length of time that 
Leliocattleya elegans, Schilleriana, and Lelia purpurata have been 
imported and cultivated, that the presence of this and the preceding hybrid 
has not previously been known or suspected, as it is quite unreasonable to 
suppose that as we have natural hybrids between Cattleya Leopoldii, Lelia 
purpurata, and Cattleya intermedia, those hybrids must in some cases, and 
as the two undermentioned now prove, have crossed between themselves 
and with the parent species. There can be no doubt as to the correctness 
of the parents ascribed, as fortunately flowers of the true L.-c. Schilleriana 
