338 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
photograph of it from C. Winn, Esq., The Uplands, Selly Hill, Birmingham. 
We have observed a curious character in the fruit. Some capsules on an 
imported plant were fleshy, and pure white in colour, like a snowberry—if 
normal, a most remarkable feature. It succeeds admirably when grown in 
baskets, in a mixture of potsherds and sphagnum, in the warm house. It 
requires abundance of water when growing, and should never be allowed to 
become dry at the root. 
Rodriguezia pubescens, Rchb. f. in Bot. Zeit., x. p. 771; Rechb. f. in Walp, Ann, vi. 
p. 694 ; Lindenia, vii. p. 39, t. 306. 
Burlingtonia pubescens, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard, I., p. 158. 
Rodriguezia Lindeni, Cogn. in Journ. d. Orch.. 111., pp. 10, 12, fig. 1; Gard. Chron, 
1892, i. pp. 426, 427, fig. 60. 
LALIO-CATTLEYA x GOTTOIANA. 
On June 23, 1891, a very beautiful Orchid was exhibited at a meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, by E. Gotto, Esq., of The Logs, Hamp- 
stead Heath, under the name of Lelia Gottoiana, and was awarded a First 
class Certificate. It had been imported from Bahia, as Lelia tenebrosa. 
Soon afterwards a similar plant appeared with Messrs, James Backhouse 
and Sons, of York. And now one has flowered in the collection of R. # 
Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, which is believed to have come 
in an importation of Cattleya Warneri. The pollen masses are those of 
a Lelio-cattleya, and it is certainly a natural hybrid, of which Cattleya 
Warneri was evidently one parent and Lzlia tenebrosa the other. Both the 
species have monophyllous pseudobulbs and an entire lip, in which respects 
the hybrid naturally agrees. The flower is about the size of Cattleya 
Warneri, but the petals are narrower and more acute, and their colour, 4S 
well as that of the lip, a nearly uniform bright rose-purple. The disc of the 
lip is rather darker in colour, but the yellow blotches on either side of the 
throat of the Cattleya parent are quite obliterated. It is a very pee oh 
plant. For a long time this plant was a profound puzzle to me. Its - 
origin was undoubted, but assuming the record that it was imported wi 
Lelia tenebrosa to be correct, I could not account for its Cattleya parentas® 
This being indisputable, I suspected some mistake, and fancied ia 
Boothiana (lobata) and Cattleya Warneri might produce such @ eet 
the acute petals of L. x Gottoiana were inexplicable on this theory: 
it is now evident that Cattleya Warneri also grows in Bahia, as will ae 
on another page. It is very curious how many natural hybrids keep tu i 
ue but it affords evidence of the way in which the pollen is carried -— 
insects, who evidently do not confine their visits to one particular ee 
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