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and the character would naturally extend to any hybrid between them.. 
These facts should identify the hybrid with Orchiserapias complicata 
(Camus in Journ. de Bot., vi. p. 34), which was based upon a plant found at 
Uhart-Cize, Lower Pyrenees, in 1882, growing among Orchis laxiflora and 
Serapias Lingua, and described as Orchis Linguo-laxiflora (Bonnet et 
Richterin Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., xxix., p. lxiv.). Unfortunately neither drawing 
nor specimen are available for comparison. In 1855 Timbal-Lagrave- 
published a hybrid under the name of Serapias Linguo-laxiflora (Mém. Act. 
Toul. 1855, p. 299), but in a subsequent Mémoire, dated 1860, he stated 
that it was a form of S. laxiflora-cordigera, now known as Orchiserapias. 
Nouletii, Camus, and distinct from the one figured. The present one Is. 
somewhat comparable with Orchiserapias triloba, Camus (in Journ. de Bot. 
vi. p. 31), a hybrid from Orchis laxiflora and Serapias neglecta, based upon 
Serapias triloba, Viv., a plant described and figured over a century ago: 
(Ann. Bot. i. p. 186; Fl. Ital. Fragm., p. 11, t. 12, fig. 1), when its hybrid 
origin was not suspected, and there would naturally be a resemblance 
between two hybrids having Orchis laxiflora as a common parent. Barla 
gives S. triloba, Viv., as a synonym of S. papilionacea-Lingua (Barla Ic.. 
Orch. p. 34, t. 22, fig. 4-8), which would explain Mr. Cox’s reference to it, 
but this is now considered different from Viviani’s original plant, and is. 
known as Orchiserapias Barle. The name Serapias triloba, however, 
according to Camus, has been applied at different times to five distinct 
hybrids between Orchis and Serapias. The two genera appear to hybridise 
pretty freely in South Europe, where they grow intermixed, and we should. 
like to see a few experiments made with a view to proving the parentage 
of several very interesting natural hybrids, one of which we are now able 
to figure. Fifteen distinct combinations between the two genera are 
enumerated by Camus, though one or two of them are somewhat doubtful, 
and in these four species of Serapias and seven species of Orchis are 
concerned. The hybrids, of course, occur where the parent species grow 
intermixed. R 
CATTLEYA DISEASE. 
ON several occasions we have heard complaints about a mysterious disease 
which attacks Cattleyas, causing them to decay very quickly, and on one 
occasion it was a valuable plant of the old C. labiata which succumbed. As. 
this was before the re-discovery of the species, the loss was considerable. 
We have now received a hybrid Cattleya, affected in a similar way. Our 
correspondent wrote as follows :-— 
“‘ We beg to hand you herewith the diseased portions of two bulbs from 
the same plant of a Cattleya hybrid flowering for the second time this. 
season, the trouble having arisen between the evening and the following 
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