146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
LZLIA TENEBROSA. 
A very handsome Lelia has been known in gardens for the last few years 
under the name of L. grandis tenebrosa, whose correct nomenclature remains 
somewhat unsettled, and as its flowering season is now rapidly approaching 
it seems desirable to add a few words respecting it. My first acquaintance 
with it dates from May, 1889, when a single flower from the collection of H, 
Tate, Esq., of Allerton Beeches, Liverpool, was sent by the Liverpool 
Horticultural Company, as a variety of L. grandis. Then it came from 
Mr, A. H. Grimsditch, of Clayton Square, Liverpool, with the information 
that it was introduced by Senor Travassos. M. Binot also introduced it in 
1889, and two or three other firms have since obtained it, as it now appears, 
from Bahia. It was distributed in gardens under the name of L. grandis 
tenebrosa, in allusion to its dark colours. It is now evident, however, that 
the plant is not a variety of L. grandis, but a distinct species, which may 
therefore bear the above name. L. grandis has smaller flowers, with 
nankeen-yellow, very undulate sepals and petals, and a white lip, beautifully 
veined throughout with radiating rose-purple veins ; while L. tenebrosa has 
larger flowers, with broader and flatter sepals and petals of a bronze of 
almost coppery hue, and a deep purple lip with a lighter margin. These 
differences are quite constant, and it is evident that the two plants are 
distinct, though allied species. Both are very handsome. 
Lelia tenebrosa, Rolfe, 
L. grandis var., Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, i. p. 683. 
L. grandis tenebrosa, Hort., Rolfe in ZLzudenia, vii. p. 7, t. 290; id., in Gard. Chron, 
1891, ii. p. 126 ; Orchidophile, 1891, p. 369, with plate ; Reichenbachia, ser. 2, V0l. thy p- 69 
t. 33 
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THE HYBRIDIST. 
DENDROBIUM X NIOBE. 
Ar last we have a hybrid from Dendrobium tortile, and a handsome of 
too. It was exhibited by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, at a meeting © 
the Royal Horticultural Society, on April 11th last, and received an AW 
of Merit. Mr, Seden was the raiser, and used D. nobile as the polle? 
parent. The pseudobulbs are stouter than in D. nobile, the pee hich 
2} inches long, and the sepals and petals slightly twisted, all of W . 
characters are distinctly derived from the mother plant. The flows’ 
bright rose-purple, the petals 13 inches long by $ths broad, and ee as 
a deep maroon disc, as in the pollen parent. In many respects it 
a deeply-coloured D. nobile nobilius, though with the differences 
pointed out.. The plant bore seven flowers on four racemes: 
above 
