THE ORCHID REVIEW. 5 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X WEEDONIENSIS 
ANOTHER interesting hybrid has flowered in the collection of T. W. 
Thornton, Esq., Brockhall, Weedon, of which a flower has been received, 
with the record “raised from Cattleya violacea X Lelia purpurata, now 
flowering for the first time with two flowers; crossed May 2nd, 1887, sown 
March r4th, 1888.’ Cattleya violacea is presumably C. Loddigesii, and 
the present hybrid, so far as we can find, is an addition to the list. It is 
fairly intermediate in character between its parents, and somewhat 
approaches L.-c. x Tresederiana (C. Loddigesii x Lelia crispa) in general 
character. The flower is white, with some deep purple in front of the 
somewhat three-lobed lip. The plant has obviously not yet reached its 
normal development. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X ADRIAN#. 
A very interesting and pretty like hybrid, raised by Messrs. Linden, 
between O. crispum and O. Hunnewellianum, the former presumably 
the seed parent. It flowered at Moortebeek, and received a First-class 
Diploma of Honour at a meeting of the Orchideenne on April 11th, 
1897. According to a figure in Lindenia (t. 590), it is quite intermediate 
between the parents. The flowers are white, densely spotted all over 
with brown, and margined with light yellow on the sepals and petals. 
Most of the spots on the lip, especially those round the margin, are 
minute. It is dedicated to Madame P. Gloner (mee Adrienne Linden). 
ORCHIDS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
AN additional part of the Flora of Tropical Africa has just appeared, 
containing an account of the Orchids of that region, or rather the 
greater part.of them, the remainder being left over for a future part. 
The work was interrupted in 1877, on completion of the third volume, 
but is now being continued, the Petaloid Monocotyledons being taken 
first. The Orchids are elaborated by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, and the part now 
issued carries the work to the beginning of the tribe Ophrydew. Those 
completed are, Epidendree, g genera and 80 species, Vandez, 10 genera 
and 353 species, and Neottiee, 10 genera and 29 species, while Ophrydee, 
with 16 genera, stands over for a future part. Thus 46 genera occur 
in Tropical Africa, and in a note which appeared elsewhere the aggregate 
number of species was estimated at fully 700, showing that the group 
forms a much more important element in the Flora than was formerly 
supposed. Epiphytic species are far less numerous than in Tropical 
America and Asia, but are represented by a proportion of about one- 
