148 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JuLy, rgt2. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A VERY interesting hybrid from Cattleya Mendelii and C. Mossiz has been 
sent from the collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham, by Mr. 
Black. The cross was made in Australia, in the collection of R. M. Poole, 
Esq., who sent some of the seed to us, and Mr. Thwaites kindly undertook 
the task of growing it (O.R., xv. p. 229). One of the seedlings has now 
produced its first scape, which has been sent to us. The flowers are fairly 
intermediate in character, having lilac rose sepals and petals, and a prettily 
undulate lip, most recalling C. Mossiz in colour. There is a large amount 
of orange yellow in the throat, and some crimson-purple in front and down 
the disc, with numerous radiating whitish lines, and a broad pale margin. 
The flowers are at present smaller than in each of its handsome parents, 
but it should develop into a good thing when the plant becomes 
strong. 
A flower of the beautiful Odontoglossum splendidissimum is sent from 
the collection of Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam. It has much 
of the O. Pescatorei shape, and is heavily blotched with deep violet-purple, 
there being one very large blotch on each petal and two on the sepals. Its 
descent is thus described by Mr. Chapman. A flower of O. crispum 
Cooksonianum was crossed with O. Pescatorei Veitchianum yielding a good 
form of O. armainvillierense, spotted chiefly on the sepals. This was again 
crossed with O. Pescatorei Veitchianum, with the result above mentioned. 
Mr. Chapman thinks that a third cross with the same would practically 
result in O. Pescatorei Veitchianum. 
Three forms of a pretty hybrid called Leliocattleya Uftona, and derived 
from Lelia purpurata x Leeliocattleya highburiensis, are sent from the 
collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., Evershot, Dorset. They are most like 
the purpurata parent in shape, and have rather elongated rosy lilac sepals 
and petals, while two of them have the front half of the lip intense crimson- 
purple, the throat deep yellow, and the base somewhat veined with red- 
purple on a pale ground, and the third has a paler lip, shading off to lilac 
in front. The cross was made in May, 1902. A fourth flower has orange 
buff sepals and petals, with a little purple suffusion and veining, and the 
lip much like the two first mentioned. It came up with the preceding lot, 
but Mr. Clark suggests that it may possibly have come from C. Warneri X 
L. cinnabrosa, of which he raised a few seedlings about a month later. We 
cannot trace the Warneri influence, and think the first cross more likely. 
The L. cinnabarina character is very pronounced, but highburiensis and 
cinnabrosa are both half cinnabarina. A fifth flower is suggested as 
probably a form of L. Lucia (C. Mendelii x L. cinnabarina), and has rich 
orange yellow sepals and petals, the base of the lip lighter buff, and the 
front lobe rich purple-crimson. They form an interesting little | group. 
