THE ORCHID REVIEW. 195 
THE HISTORY OF ORCHID HYBRIDISATION. 
Part VI. 
(Continued from page 134.) 
ZYGO-COLAX X VEITCHII, a remarkable and very handsome generic hybrid, 
flowered in 1887 for the first time. It was raised by Mr. Seden from 
Zygopetalum crinitum fertilised with the pollen of Colax jugosus. The 
seed was sown in September, 1882, and the first flowers produced in March, 
1887, the plant being a little over five years old. The appearance of this 
hybrid marks the commencement of a new era in the history of Orchid 
hybridisation, as it led to an extension of the principle of compounding 
a new name, derived from the joint names of the parent genera, to all 
the generic hybrids raised in gardens.t Hitherto they had usually been 
referred to one or the other of the parent genera, but with very un- 
satisfactory results, as we have already seen in one or two instances. 
Another hybrid between Phaius and Calanthe flowered in 1887, and was 
described as Phaius x Sedenianus by Reichenbach, who called it the fourth 
member of the group, though only one other appears to be on record. The 
present one was raised by Mr. Seden by crossing Phaius grandifolius with 
the pollen of Calanthe x Veitchii. 
Phalenopsis x Rothschildiana, the second hybrid in the genus, was an 
extremely interesting acquisition. It was obtained by Mr. Seden from “ P. 
Schilleriana and P. amabilis, Lindl.” (i.e., P. Aphrodite, Rchb. f.), the 
Supposed parents of the natural kybrid P. x leucorrhoda. Reichenbach 
observed that its flowers were much like those of P. x leucorrhoda in 
shape, and that it was no doubt of the same origin. The Malayan P. 
amabilis, Blume (P. grandiflora, Lindl.), the original species of the genus, 
has since been recorded as the pollen parent, by Messrs. Veitch. ‘This 
would account for the differences observed between it and P. x leucor- 
thoda, for the two are not identical, whether the parentage is the same 
or otherwise. The novelty was named P. x Rothschildiana, in honour of 
Lord Rothschild, of Tring Park. 
A third Phalznopsis flowered almost immediately afterwards, derived 
from P. amabilis, Blume 2? and P. violacea 3. It was named P. x Harriette, 
in compliment to the daughter of the Hon. Erastus Corning, of Albany, 
U.S:A. It is not only very handsome, but botanically interesting from the 
fact that the two parent species belong to quite different sections of the 
genus. It was raised by Mr. Seden in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment. 
Other hybrids described during 1887 were as follows :— 
From the establishment of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of 
Chelsea :— 
* See R. A. Rolfe, “On Bigeneric Orchid Hybrids,” in Journ. Linn. Soc., xxiv., pp. 
156-170. 
