168 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
These details have been worked out by careful comparison of the plants 
in question, but it would be very interesting if someone would demonstrate 
their origin by direct experiment. 
Since writing the preceding, information has come to hand of L.-c. 
Xx Schilleriana having been raised artificially. Six years ago Messrs. 
Charlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford, crossed Lelia purpurata with 
the pollen of Cattleya intermedia, and now a plant has flowered, and 
proves precisely identical with the wild plant. It was exhibited at the 
Temple Show, and afterwards went to the one at Manchester. The 
circumstance is very interesting, and places the origin of this beautiful 
natural hybrid beyond the reach of further dispute. 
R.A. RK. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM ™X ROWENA. 
WE have now another very interesting and beautiful hybrid from Paphio- 
pedium Chamberlainianum to record, in this case P. bellatulum being the 
pollen parent. It has just bloomed in the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., 
The Woodlands, Streatham, and Mr. Measures, in a note accompanying the 
flower, remarks that it is his first Chamberlainianum cross. While retaining 
much of the character of the latter, the shape of the flower is much more 
like the pollen parent, having the general shape, the broad, flat petals, and 
the short lip, all, however, being raodified in various details. The inflor- 
escence is very short, but there are two additional bracts, much resembling 
those of P. Chamberlainianum, which show that additional flowers might 
have been expected had their development not been arrested by being cut. 
The dorsal sepal is broadly ovate-orbicular, over 14 inches long by 1} inches 
broad, the base deep purple-brown, with about 13 similar bands extending 
into the cream-yellow upper part ; the petals 2 inches long by 1 inch broad, 
closely lined with rows of purple-brown spots on a ground colour which is 
cream-yellow towards the apex, but suffused with light purple elsewhere ; 
the lip densely marbled and spotted with purple, and the staminode deep 
blackish purple, and ovate-orbicular in shape. _It is a very striking thing, 
and we shall hope to see it again when its character is fully developed. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM X CHAMBER-LEEANUM. 
_In the establishment of M. Ed. Pynaert van Geert, of Ghent, we recently 
saw a distinct and pretty hybrid, raised from P. Chamberlainianum and P. 
x Leeanum, to which a name had been given indicating its origin and 
parentage. It was fairly intermediate in character, though rather inclining 
towards P. Chamberlainianum in the flower. The ground colour is 
