May, 1606.} THE ORCHID REVIEW. 135 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
BRAssocaTTLEYA X Mrs. Francis WELLESLEY.—A large and very 
handsome hybrid, bearing the above name, was exhibited at the R.H.S. 
meeting on April 17th, and was awarded a First-class Certificate. It was 
derived from Cattleya Lueddemanniana ? and Brassavola Digbyana 3 , and 
the flower sent measures over a foot across its broadest diameter, while the 
lip is 34 inches broad, and is very beautifully fringed and undulate. The 
colour may be described as delicate lilac-rose, with darker veins, while the 
disc is light yellow. The shape is excellent, and we believe it is the finest 
Brassocattleya which has yet appeared. 
L&LI0-cATYLEYA X ZOROASTER.—This is a very richly coloured hybrid 
raised in the collection of Major G. L. Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury, from 
Lelia x Latona ? and L.-c. x Canhamiana Rex (the variety with pure white 
sepals and petals) ¢, and is a great improvement on the seed parent, being 
equally rich in colour, but larger and of better shape, especially in the lip. 
Mr. Alexander states that the seed was sown on February 2oth, 1903, and 
this is the first to bloom. Others, however, are approaching the flowering 
stage, and some interesting results are expected from this batch of 
seedlings. 
BRASSOCATLELIA X BALARUCENSIS.—An interesting hybrid derived 
from Lelio-cattleya X Schilleriana ¢ and Brassavola Digbyana ¢ is sent 
by M. F. Denis, Balaruc les Bains, Héraulft, France. The flower most 
resembles the seed parent in general shape, including its three-lobed lip, the 
margin, however, being fringed as in other Digbyana hybrids. The colour 
may be described as white, with some purple marbling on the sepals and 
petals, more or less flushed and marbled with purple near the apex of the 
segments, and a trace of light yellow on the disc. M. Denis remarks that 
last year the flowers were not marbled, but the plant has recently been re- 
potted. 
L&LI0-cATTLEYA X DeEntst.—This is another interesting hybrid raised 
by M. Denis, from Lelia X superbiens @ and Cattleya Lueddemanniana 
(speciosissima) 3 , and now flowering for the first time. The scape at present 
is about eighteen inches long, and carries four flowers. The hybrid bears 
a iderable general bl to L.-c. X Choletiana (in which C. 
Lueddemanniana is replaced by C. Mossiz), having long rose-pink sepals 
and petals, and a three-lobed, rose-purple lip, with a yellow disc, from 
which radiate numerous purple lines, both on the front and side lobes. M. 
Denis remarks that the plant is about six years old, and we may add that 
it shows the strongest possible evidence of its Lelia superbiens parentage. 
It is the third hybrid from this species which has reached the flowering 
stage. : 
