364 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Lelia was established. The former was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, 
of Hackney, with whom it flowered in 1847, and a year later Lindley 
described it as Cattleya lobata, evidently without examining the pollen. In 
1855 Reichenbach described Lzelia Boothiana, from a plant in the collection 
of Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg, where it had existed for many years without 
flowering, but it ultimately proved identical with Lindley’s plant. The 
former name having proved erroneous, the proper course would apparently 
be to adopt the latter, and no necessity should exist for a third name. But 
continental botanists, following the zoological method, retain the oldest: 
specific name under all circumstances, and it was in conformity with this 
system that Messrs. Veitch, in their Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, gave the 
new name of Lelia lobata. Most English botanists adopt the oldest correct 
name, and this system is followed in the Index Kewensis—hence Lelia 
Boothiana—but whether this system will ultimately prevail we do not 
venture to prophecy. It is certainly a handsome species with sweetly 
scented flowers, and deserves to be better known. Mr. Ashworth’s plant is 
flowering curiously out of season, though we cannot say why, and hope its 
behaviour will be noted next year.—Ep.] 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
EPILZLIA X HARDYANA. 
THIS very remarkable generic hybrid was exhibited by Messrs. F. Sander 
and Co., St. Albans, at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on 
November 13th last, when it received an Award of Merit. It was derived 
from Epidendrum ciliare and Lelia anceps, the former, according to a 
letter from Mr. Sander, dated February 24, 1891, being the seed parent. 
Its history is thus further given. It is a cross made by Mr. Joly, gardener 
to Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, Vienna, and is now four years old, and 
flowering for the second time. Thus it appears to have been raised in 1887. 
We do not know whether the cross has been raised a second time, but the 
pseudobulb, leaf, and two-flowered raceme originally sent are like those of 
the plant exhibited. It is fairly intermediate in character. The pseudobulbs 
are most like the Epidendrum parent, except that the majority bear two 
leaves, as in the Lelia. The Scape is rather short, and two-flowered, the 
sepals and petals narrowly lanceolate-oblong, and the lip three-lobed, with a 
broadly elliptical or subcordate, undulate front lobe, separated by a short 
isthmus from the semi-oblong infolded side lobes. The colour is very light 
blush pink, almost blush-white, except the front lobe of the lip and the tip 
of the side lobes, which are rich crimson-purple. The only trace of the 
ciliate front lobe of the Epidendrum in the hybrid is a rather obscure 
: denticulation on the margin, though the undulation is probably due to the 
