204 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
breeders to keep accurate and precise records of the crosses they make 
from time to time, the details of which may prove to be of inestimable 
value to science.” 
The paper is illustrated with several woodcuts of the more remarkable 
hybrids, and will doubtles be studied in detail by all who are interested in 
the question of hybridisation. 
CATTLEYA x PICTURATA. 
A very interesting Cattleya has just flowered in the collection of 
Eustace F. Clark, Esq., of Teignmouth. It was purchased last autumn 
from the Robinow collection as C. intermedia, but on flowering proves 
much more like the old C. guttata in shape, and is probably a natural 
hybrid between the two. Thus it should agree with C. x scita (Rchb. f. in 
Gard. Chron., 1885, xxiv., p. 489), which appeared with Mr. B. S. Williams 
in an importation of C. intermedia, and was described as probably a natural 
hybrid between it and C. guttata. It had lightest ochre-coloured sepals and 
petals, with a few irregular light purple blotches and some similar shading 
near the margin. The front lobe of the lip and tips of the side lobes were 
purple, and Reichenbach added that there was hardly a doubt as to its 
origin. There is a still older C. X picturata (Rchb. f., J.c., 1877, vill., 
p- 584) raised by Mr. Dominy in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment, whose 
acknowledged parents are C. guttata and C. intermedia. It is described as 
most like the former, the blooms pallid yellow, petals white at the base, and 
lip with the front lobe and angles of the side lobes brownish-purple. 
Unfortunately the type specimens are inaccessible, but in the absence of 
evidence to the contrary we may assume Reichenbach’s views to be correct, 
and that Mr. Clark’s plant is a form of the same. The flower is slightly 
larger than the old C. guttata, and the petals are narrower, as in C. inter- 
media (they measure 20 lines long by 5 broad), and the lip as nearly 
intermediate as possible. The sepals and petals are highly suffused with 
pink on a yellowish white ground, and each bears a number of 
purple spots and splashes, mostly near the apex. The front lobe 
of the lip is rose-purple, which colour extends down the centre of the disc, 
and is slightly represented on the tips of the side lobes. It is smaller than 
C. X intricata, as would naturally be expected. It would be interesting if 
some of our hybridists who possess the old C. guttata would repeat the 
cross, for the early records are rather doubtful, and the hybrids themselves 
appear to have been lost. Its re-appearance as a wild plant is at all events 
very interesting. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
