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W. Bolton, Esq., Wilderspool (gr. Mr. Cain), sent a small group of 
Cypripediums. 
_ Messrs. A. J. Keeling & Sons, Westgate Hill, Bradford, received a 
Bronze Medal for a good miscellaneous group, and Awards of Merit for the 
striking Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni and Cypripedium Elliottianum 
superbum. 
Mr. J. E. Sadler, Newbury, Berks, staged a small group of Odonto- 
glossums. 
CATTLEYA x BAHIENSIS. 
When I prepared my paper on “ Natural Hybrid Cattleyas”” (R.H.S. Conf. 
Genetics, pp. 222-241) I did not include a hybrid of C. velutina, though one 
might have been included but for a little sceptism on my part. Some time 
previously the Marquis de Wavrin, Chateau de Ronsele, near Somerghem, 
Belgium, sent a flower of a Cattleya which was said to have been introduced 
by Messrs. Sander and Sons. It was obviously a hybrid between C. velutina 
and some species of the labiata group, and I searched the records of habitat of 
the former but could find no evidence of such.a combination, and therefore 
replied that I thought it must be of artificial origin. This year another 
flower has been sent by the Marquis, through Messrs. Sander and Sons, and 
the latter wrote from Bruges as follows :-—“ The plant was sent home by 
our Mr. Forget some years ago. The habit of the plant is somewhat like 
a very dwarf C. velutina, and the colour of the bulbs and leaves as dark as 
C. Schilleriana.” I then asked for information as to the district the plant 
came from, and whether any other species was found in the importation. 
Messrs. Sander replied :—‘‘ Our Mr. Forget is here at Bruges at present, 
and he says that the plant in question comes from the Lelia tenebrosa 
district, where Cattleya Warneri, C. Schilleriana and C. velutina were 
found.” This information was both new and interesting, for the Flora 
Brasiliensis only records C. yelutina from the province of Rio de Janeiro, 
while the others mentioned are not known from there. Now we have 
evidence that C. velutina also occurs in Bahia, and the point helps to con- 
firm a remark previously made that our knowledge of the geographical 
distribution of the Brazilian Cattleyas is still very imperfect. It is now 
evident that C. Warneri was the second parent of the plant in question, for 
the flower sent is fairly intermediate between the two. There is an unmistake- 
able resemblance to C. velutina, but the flower is enlarged to a diameter of 5} 
inches from tip to tip of the petals. The latter are also a third broader, 
slightly undulate, not narrowed at the base in the same way, and distinctly 
suffused with lilac-rose. The lip may be described as subentire or obscurely 
three-lobed, and is elongated to 24 inches long, by 1f broad. Ane front 
lobe is somewhat undulate, and light rose, veined with purple in front, 
