188 THE ORCHID REVIEW. ~ [Junk, 1910 
collection. M. Mantin also grew a good many botanical Orchids in addition 
to the usual popular kinds. 
Epwarp RoGERSON.—We much regret to hear of the death of Edward 
Rogerson, Esq., Oakdene, West Didsbury, Manchester, which took place 
suddenly on May 6th, from heart disease. The deceased gentleman has 
long been a successful cultivator of Orchids, and a frequent exhibitor at the 
meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society. During 
the last autumn and winter he also staged several interesting groups at the 
meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society. The collection is principally 
noted for Cypripediums and Odontoglossums, and we are glad to hear that 
it is being retained by the family. 
LAELIOCATTLEYA LUCIA. 
A VERY interesting flower is sent from the collection of Eustace F. Clark, 
Esq., Chamonix, Teignmouth. It was raised from Cattleya Mendelii ? 
and Lelia cinnabarina g, the cross being made to test the recorded 
parentage of Leliocattleya Lucia, a hybrid from the Winn collection, which 
flowered with Mr. Clark and was described in 1899 (O. R., vii. p. 166). 
The latter had been purchased as a seedling from C. Mendelii x L. 
cinnabarina, though the appearance of the flowers raised a doubt as to the 
correctness of the record, for the front lobe of the lip was veined with 
purple, as in L. purpurata. In the following year Mr. Clark made the 
cross in question, and one of the seedlings has now bioomed. It is a fine 
thing, having rich, reddish orange sepals and petals, and a rather lighter- 
coloured lip, with a very broad deep purple band round the front lobe, and 
a few dull purple lines in the throat. Mr. Clark sends for comparison a 
painting of the original L.-c. Lucia, which has paler, more acute sepals and 
petals, and the front lobe of the lip narrower, more elongated, and veined 
with purple. He remarks that he finds the pollinia of this original 
Lucia to be eight in number, and equal in size, as in Lelia, yet the 
flower is not identical with those of a plant bought as L. purpurata X 
cinnabarina, which should be a form of L. X Latona. On comparing this 
painting with one of L. x Latona it is quite clear that both are forms of 
the same hybrid, and thus the original Lucia becomes a form of L. X 
Latona. But the name L.-c. Lucia can be retained for the plant exhibited 
by Messrs. Sander in 1g02 as L.-c. Lucia superba (O.R., x. p. 116), which 
is believed to be correct, and like the one now sent by Mr. Clark. Shortly 
after Messrs. Sander’s plant was exhibited another with the same parentage 
was shown by M. Balme as L.-c. Lutéce, and in 1904, one by Messrs. 
Veitch as L.-c. Panope, all being forms of the same hybrid. 
The pollen of the original Lucia was also used by Mr. Clark to cross 
both L. purpurata and C. Mendelii. With the former it has yielded hybrids 
