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The first was Lelio-cattleya x Stella, raised from Lelia crispa? and the 
plant called Lelia x elegans var. Wolstenholmiz 7, which is really a variety 
of Lelio-cattleya x Schilleriana. Thus it has only one-fourth Cattleya 
blood in it. The seed was sown in 1881. 
Lelio-cattleya x Aurora was raised from Lelia pumila Dayana crossed 
with the pollen of Cattleya Loddigesii. It flowered for the first time when 
seven years old. It has the dwarf habit of the mother plant, with larger 
flowers, which show more of the influence of the pollen parent, especially in 
colour. It is a very elegant little hybrid. 
Lzlio-cattleya x Cassiope is another charming little plant, obtained by 
crossing Lzlia pumila with the pollen of Lzlio-cattleya x exoniensis. The 
seed was sown in 1881, so that the plant was eight years old when it 
flowered. It has the general habit of the mother plant, with the flower, 
especially as regards colour, modified in the direction of the other parent. 
Masdevallias were also well to the fore during 1889, as several novelties 
were described, and one hybrid, though not new, proved of even greater 
interest, as it cleared up the hybrid origin of two wild plants, which had been 
suspected from the outset. This one may be considered first. 
- In 1878 Reichenbach described Masdevallia splendida, as a “new 
species,” though with the remark that it “ makes one think of a mule 
between Masdevallia Veitchiana and M. Barleana or amabilis”’; and abouta 
year later he added M. Parlatoreana, as a “new species (or new hybrid ?)”’ 
He then stated—‘* We may now guess that it is perhaps a hybrid between 
Masdevallia Veitchiana and Barleana, and M. splendida (misspelt ‘ spec- 
tabilis’) between Veitchiana and amabilis.” In order to prove this, Mr. Seden 
fertilised M. Veitchiana with the pollen of M. Barlaana, and the seedlings 
on flowering proved identical with the wild hybrids. 
Both M. x splendida and M. x Parlatoreana appeared in a consign- 
ment of M. Veitchiana and M. Barleana, which grow intermixed on the 
eastern Cordillera of Peru, near Cuzco, and the two hybrids described are 
M. amabilis is out of the question. Firstly, it 
certainly only forms of one. 
es produced 
does not grow with M. Veitchiana, and secondly, these two speci 
M. x Chelsoni, a quite distinct hybrid. 
Masdevallia x Courtauldiana is a very. pretty hybrid raise 
tion of N. C. Cookson, Esq., of Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, from M. rosea 
and M. caudata (M. Shuttleworthii), but it is not stated which was the seed 
parent. . The flower is fairly intermediate in character, in colour inclining 
towards M. rosea, but in shape nearer the other parent. 
d in the collec- 
Veitchiana crossed with the pollen of M. amabilis. It is an improved form 
of M. x Chelsoni, which has the reversed parentage. | 2 
- Masdevallia caudato-Estrade was also raised by Mr. Seden, from M. 
Estrade ? and M. caudata f. It is a very pretty little hybrid, and very 
