318 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcroBER, 1906. 
effect that M. E. Praet believes the parentage to be O. luteopurpureum or 
O. sceptrum and O. crispum, and he regards it asa form of O. X mirificum, 
raised by M. Vuylsteke. We hope the history is now cleared up, and 
should like to see a flower next year. 
VARIATION IN HYBRIDS. 
Some little time ago I wrote you about a Brassocattleya Orpheus which 
varied extremely in its colouring according to the size of its bulb (See page 
134). I am now greatly interested in a plant which I bought in 1904, 
because I admired the flower so much. I think it was said to be Lelio- 
cattleya Aphrodite. Its bulbs were all similar in shape, short and stout, 
rather egg-like. Last year it did not flower. This year it is just beginning 
to make up a bulb of a Lelia purpurata character, and I am very curious 
to see whether the character of the flowers will be entirely different too. I 
am rather afraid that it will be—very interesting, if it is, but I bought the 
plant because I specially admired the flower, which was of the Cattleya 
Mendelii type, but beautifully coloured. I should prefer that it flowered 
true. 
I find that the last flowering bulb was 3 inches long, and the leaf 8 
inches, 11 inches in all. The new bulb is 8 inches to the base of the 
sheath, and the leaf 11} inches, 194 inches in all, and the bulb is only 
just beginning to swell down in the sheath. 
Joun Epwarps- Moss. 
Thamesfield, Henley-on-Thames. 
EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM AS A PARENT. 
A THREE-flowered inflorescence of a bright and attractive hybrid is sent 
from the establishment of M. Paul Wolter, of Magdeburg. It is said to 
have been derived from Cattleya Loddigesii x Epidendrum vitellinum, and 
several plants were raised, which have slender stems like the seed parent, 
with a pair of rather larger leaves. It is also remarked that one cannot see 
the distinct influence of the Epidendrum, which was also the case in 
Epicattleya magdeburgensis (C. Gaskelliana x E. vitellinum). A similar 
remark applies to the flowers, though some modifying influence has been at 
work. They are bright rose-purple in colour, with a whitish throat, and 
are about as large as the Cattleya in size. The hybrid has not at present 
been named. There is something rather mysterious about these crosses with 
Epidendrum vitellinum, for M. Wolter states that he has often tried to 
cross this plant with various Cattleyas and Lelias, but always without 
success, as the flowers were never fertilised. 
