296 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcTOBER, 1909. 
to get my drawings of this genus quite authentic, I sent flowers to Professor 
Reichenbach, and got the name as above, as I expected. It is powerfully 
scented and not very pleasant, chiefly from the strength of it.” To the 
former drawing Mr. Day has added: “ Plants imported from Guatemala by 
Low & Co. bloomed with me in 1866, and are evidently the same as this, 
but much finer and larger. They had magnificent spikes of from nine to 
thirteen flowers.” The flower sent by Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. is quite 
identical in shape and colour. The sepals and petals are light yellow, with 
many minute dusky dots and a deep yellow base, and the hypochil of the lip 
is oblong, orange-yellow, with a few reddish dots, chiefly inside, while the 
horns and epichil are straw-coloured, with many minute brown dots. The 
column wings are broad, and extend to within one-fifth of the base. 
The plant‘figured by Lemaire under the name of S. graveolens (F/. d. 
Ser., tt. 69, 70) has a larger sac beneath the hypochil, and is probably 
different, also the variety Lietzei, Regel (Gartenfl., xl., p. 201, t. 1345). 
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CATTLEYA x WILSONIANA., 
A VERY interesting natural hybrid Cattleya is sent from the collection of 
P. C. P. Lupton, Esq., Southminster, Essex, by Mr. Bennett, who remarks 
that the plant has elongated pseudobulbs, about 18 inches long, with two 
leaves, and the spike is five-flowered. The plant was brought from Brazil 
by Mr. Lupton. The flower bears the most unmistakable resemblance to 
C. Harrisoniana, having light purple sepals and petals of very similar shape 
and texture, as also are the front lobe of the lip and the corrugated light 
yellow disc, but the side lobes are only two-thirds as long as the column, as 
in the hybrids of C. bicolor, which was probably the other parent. I have 
seen nothing quite like it before, and the question arises whether it is C. X 
Wilsoniana, a species only known from description, but which I have 
suggested as possibly of the same origin as C. x sororia, Rchb. f. C. X 
Wilsoniana came home with C. bicolor, and the flowers were said to be 
equal to a well-developed form of that species, but the sepals and petals of 
a beautiful deep purple. C. x sororia was described by Reichenbach as 
having the growth of C. bicolor and the flower like a good C. Harrisonie, 
yet he suggested C. Walkeriana and C. guttata as possible parents. It is 
figured in the Orchid Album (vii. t. 307), where it is said to have come home 
with other Cattleyas of similar growth, as C. bicolor, C. velutina, &c. 
Whether all three are of identical parentage must remain uncertain, but 
Mr. Lupton’s plant is nearer to C. Harrisoniana than the one figured. It 
is unfortunate that the matter cannot be cleared up for want of material, 
‘but anyone who happens to have the two species in bloom might make the 
cross in the hope of settling the matter. R. A. R. 
