THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2g 
HISTORY OF ORCHID HYBRIDISATION. 
ParT IX. 
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_ A HyBRID Thunia flowered for the first time in 1885, but had been previously 
overlooked. Curiously enough, the same hybrid was raised by two different 
operators—first by the late Mr. Toll, of Manchester, and shortly afterwards 
by Mr. Seden, in both cases from T. Marshalliana 2? and T. Bensoniz 7. 
Plants in flower were exhibited simultaneously at one of the Royal Botanic 
Society’s shows in 1885, the former under the name of T. x Wrigleyana 
and the latter as T. Veitchiana. Under the latter name the hybrid was_ 
eventually described. It is quite intermediate in character. 
Cypripedium x Buchanianum was raised in the collection of the late 
H. J. Buchan, Esq., of Southampton, by Mr. T. Osborne, from C. Druryi ? 
and C. Spicerianum Z, and flowered for the first time about the end of 1887. 
The characters of the seed parent decidedly preponderate in the hybrid, 
which is an attractive little plant. 
The most noteworthy hybrid of 1890 was Epiphronitis x Veitchii, a new 
generic cross, raised from Sophronitis grandiflora crossed with the pollen of 
Epidendrum radicans—the two parents, as is well known, being remarkably 
dissimilar, both in size and habit. The hybrid is like a very much dwarfed 
edition of the latter with an enlarged flower, for, singularly enough, there is 
very little trace of the Sophronitis parentage, except in the characters just 
named, and the somewhat darker colour. Were its parentage not known, 
it might easily be passed over as an Epidendrum, for the convolute side 
lobes of the lip of Sophronitis are quite unrepresented in the hybrid. It 
has the brilliant colour of its two parents. It was exhibited at a meeting 
of the Royal Horticultural Society on June 24th of that year, by Messrs. 
James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, and received a First-class Certificate. 
Mr. Seden was the raiser. 
A second Sophro-cattleya also appeared in 1890, in the same establish- 
ment. As in the preceding instance, Sophronitis grandiflora was the seed- 
bearer, but Cattleya Harrisoniz is recorded as the pollen parent. The 
flower is large, the sepals and petals bright rose-purple, and the lip mach 
like that of the Cattleya parent, both in shape and colour, except that it is 
darker in front. It is more distinct from Sophro-cattleya x Batemaniana 
than would 4 priori have been expected, seeing that that had the allied 
Cattleya intermedia as the pollen parent. It is a very elegant little plant, 
and was described as Sophro-cattleya x Calypso. 
The first hybrid Odontoglossum also flowered during 1890, and the event 
Was a particularly interesting one for several reasons. Although so much 
Success had attended the experiments made with several other popular 
Seneral Odontoglossum had proved singularly intractable in this respect. 
