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to be C. Victoria-Regina from an earlier importation, but all of them pro- 
duced flowers of C. amethystoglossa, and may be left out of consideration 
altogether. What can be the explanation of these curious facts? It is 
well known that in the Pernambuco district Cattleya Leopoldi, or at least 
the Pernambuco variety of it, grows in company with C. labiata, and we 
suspect that C. Victoria-Regina is a natural hybrid between them. Its 
general resemblance in shape to Cattleya x Harrisii (C. Leopoldi $ x C. 
Mendeli 2), to C. x Chamberlainiana (C. Leopoldi 2 x C. Dowiana 2), and 
to Lzlio-cattleya x elegans (C. Leopoldi x L. purpurata, or the reverse) is 
too obvious to be overlooked, and its brilliant rose-purple colour with a few 
deeper spot, no less than the shape, is just what might be expected in a 
hybrid between the two species named. We do not know if any one-leaved 
pseudobulbs have been observed. Ifthe plant is a natural hybrid its rarity 
need not be wondered at, and may long continue. Wecommend the matter 
to the attention of hybridists, for the plant is undoubtedly a very handsome 
one. 
Cattleya Victoria-Regina, O’Brien in Gard. Chron., 1892, i. pp. 586, 808, 809, fig. 115 
(fig. 116 is a plant of C, Leopoldi, and must be excluded) ; Journ. of Hort., 1892, i. p. 349, 
fig. 60, 
LYCASTE x IMSCHOOTIANA. 
This is a distinct and handsome Lycaste for which M. Alfred Van Im- 
schoot, of Mont-St.-Amand, Ghent, received a First-class Diploma of Honour 
at a meeting of the Orchidéene of Brussels, on December roth last. In the 
report of that meeting it is recorded as a hybrid from ‘ Lycaste Skinneri 
x Maxillaria nigrescens.” It was also included in a group exhibited by 
Messrs. Linden at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society two 
days later, and received an Award of Merit. The Gardeners’ Chronicle then 
(p. 756) recorded it as a new Lycaste from Peru, possibly a natural hybrid. 
A week later, in figuring a flower (p. 775, fig. 119) they reverted to the first- 
named parentage, adding that it was raised by M. van Imschoot, and 
suggesting L. Skinneri and L. cruenta as the parents. These contra- 
dictory records are unfortunate, and should be cleared up. We saw the 
plant on the last occasion, and, knowing nothing of its origin, suggested that 
it was a natural hybrid between L. Skinneri and L. cruenta, both natives of 
Guatemala, which probably grow together in some localities. Maxillaria 
nigrescens is out of the question, The sepals are light greenish fawn 
colour, spotted with purple, except near the tips, the petals similar, but 
a little yellower, and the lip yellow, spotted with orange-red at the base and 
on the callus. The flower is as intermediate between the two species named 
as it well could be, both in shape and colour. We hope to see the origin 
of this interesting plant cleared up. 
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