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last occasion bearing. four flowers on a-spike. It was described as having 
the best points of C. gigas and Sanderiana, with a dash of C. aurea. thrown, 
in, the flowers being strongly scented. It was shortly afterwards figured 
in the Orchid Album’ (V., t. 231). 
The earliest notice, however, which we have discovered appeared in 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle for August 16th, 1884 (p. 211), before the plant had 
been named, as follows :— 
“New Catt_eya.—An extraordinary variety, evidently a natural hybrid 
between C. aurea and a variety of C. gigas—probably Sanderiana—is now 
in bloom in the collection of George Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, Tim- 
perley, Cheshire. In form and size it is a magnificent thing, and in the 
richness of the labellum it is just what might be expected from the blending 
of the bright orange veining in the throat of C. aurea with the expanded 
tich crimson lower half of the other parent. It is wonderfully beautiful 
and sweet.” e 
In course of time various other individuals appeared among impor- 
tations of the same two species, some of them being very different from the 
original form in the way the characters of the two parents are combined, 
though obviously forms of the same hybrid. One of the earliest of these 
was the variety Massaiana, which appeared in the collection of M. le Duc 
de Massa, at Lusarches, Belgium, in 1888, and was figured in the Orchid 
Album (VIM, t. 262) as C. X Massaiana. The flower has the general 
shape of C. Dowiana, but the sepals and petals are mottled with light 
tose and white, and the lip rich magenta-crimson, with two large areas 
of bright orange-yellowat the sides, and the throat striped with brownish 
crimson on a yellow ground. 
The next appearance of the hybrid which we have found recorded is in 
1888, and may be quoted, as it again illustrates the totally unexpected way 
in which these natural hybrids appear :—* A specimen of this rare natural 
hybrid between C. aurea and C. gigas, with over one hundred bulbs and 
ten leads, now bears several spikes of gorgeous fragrant flowers, apparently 
exactly the same as the original plant, is in flower with R. H. Measures, 
Esq-, at Streatham. The plant was a lucky speculation, it being bought as 
C. gigas variety, out of an importation of Messrs. F. Sander & Co.” (Gard. 
Chron., 1888, iv., p- 446.) 
In 1889 two other-forms appeared in the collections of E. G- Wrigley, 
Esq., of Preston, and A. Heine, Esq., of Fallowfield, Manchester, which 
were at first taken for C. Dowiana aurea with rosy segments. (Gard. 
Chron., 1889, vi., pp, 493, 560.) The last-named flowered out of a batch of 
C. Dowiana chrysotoxa imported by Messrs. Sander. Almost, if not quite 
all, the plants known: have appeared out of importations of the two parent 
Species, and considering how much these two resemble each other when: 
