316 THE ORCHID REVIEW. {OCTOBER, 1907 
L&LIO-cATTLEYA JASON.—A flower of a pretty hybrid, which is believed — 
to have originated from Cattleya X Hardyana and Lelia x Latona, is sent 
from the collection of G. S. Jessop, Esq., Cliffe Cottage, Rawdon, Leeds. 
It is fairly intermediate in size, and has light salmon-rose sepals and petals, _ ; 
flushed with yellow at the apex; while the lip is strongly three-lobed, with 
the front lobe very undulate and rich crimson-purple in colour, the isthmus 
and apex of the side lobes deep yellow, and the lower part more or less 
suffused with purple. It flowered for the first time last year, and is likely 
to develop into a good thing. 
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CATTLEYA x BAHIENSIS. 
THE publication of the note on Cattleya x bahiensis (page 279) has elicited 
a very interesting letter from M. Forget, collector for Messrs. Sander & Sons, 
and discoverer of the plant. He remarks:—‘‘ It was found in the Lalia 
tenebrosa district, where I also collected a mixture of C. Warneri, 
Schofieldiana, Schilleriana and velutina in more or less quantity. But this 
is hundreds of miles away from the Province of Bahia. Lelia tenebrosa is ~ 
from the southern province of Espiritu Santo, adjacent to the 
northern part of the State of Rio, and about one day by railway from | 
the city of Rio.” The erroneous record of the habitat of L. tenebrosa as 
Bahia is unfortunate, for it is now clear that the specific name of Cattleya _ 
xX bahiensis is erroneous, and it had better be changed before it gets more 
firmly established. The specific names of Forgetiana and Wavriniana are 
no longer available, and therefore the plant may be called C. x spectabilis, 
for it is a notable addition to the genus. Its history illustrates very well 
the difficulty one sometimes experiences in tracing the origin of a natural 
hybrid. At the outset, without a clue to either the native country or the 
species with which it was imported, I thought it must be some hybrid of 
artificial origin, and even when this was disproved. there came the difficulty 
that the parents were not recorded as growing together. R.A.R. 
CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM FROM SEED.—The Gardeners’ Chromicle 
states that Mr. H. A. Tracy, of Twickenham, has obtained a batch of seed- 
lings of this species, by fertilising a very fine form which he had in flower 
with its own pollen. He obtained a batch of seeds, and raised a § 
number of plants, some of which are now in bloom. The flowers are of the 
“magnificum” class, with large, white dorsal sepal, slightly shaded with 
rose on the lower half, and with a broad, claret-coloured band in the middle. 
Although the plants are still young, they show a marked advance on the 
imported varieties, and prove that much might be done with advantage in 
the matter of seeding good varieties of imported species. 
