298 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OCTOBER, 1909. 
plant which is believed not to be in cultivation at the present time. The 
seed was obtained in 1854, and in October, 1856, a seedling was in flower, 
when little over two years old. It was named by Dr. Lindley in honour of 
its raiser. The flowers are lilac-purple, with a rather darker lip, which 
changes to buff as the flowers get old. .It is an easily grown and free- 
flowering plant. Besides being historically interesting, it is so easily grown 
and floriferous, that it deserves a place wherever hybrid Orchids are grown. 
It is one of the few hybrid Orchids which have been figured in the Botanical 
Magazine (t. 5042), and its portrait is very appropriately given as the frontis- 
piece of the Orchid Stud-Book, where its history is given in detail. 
ORCHIDS OF SAO PAULO, BRAZIL. 
WE recently referred to flowers of Cattleya Warneri and Leliocattleya 
Schilleriana sent from the collection of P. C. P. Lupton, Esq., of 
Southminster, Essex (p. 252). The plants in question had been sent from 
the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, by a friend, Dr. *F, S. Lane, and now 
Mr. Lupton sends the following very interesting information from him. 
Dr. Lane writes :— 
“‘ The L.-c. Schilleriana came from Praia Grande, near Santos, and is, as 
Mr. Rolfe says, a hybrid between Lzlia purpurata and Cattleya intermedia. 
It was found about one mile from the seashore, in the low swamp land that 
generally has about six inches to a foot of water on it in the wet season. 
The plant was about ten feet from the ground. The C. Warneri comes 
from the State of Espirito Santo. Thereis a very similar one, C. labiata 
autumnalis, that comes from Pernambuco (Northern Brazil). I have also 
some exceptionally fine labiata from Ceara, but they are rare and hard to 
get. Occasionally I get species from the Rio Negro and Upper Amazon 
districts, but as I have no hothouse they do not do‘so well here. 
‘** There is a great variety of Orchids here in this State of which I can 
give accurate information, but for those outside it I have to rely on the 
information of collectors, and that is not always reliable. 
“This State has Lelia purpurata, cinnabarina, flava, crispa, crispilabia, 
and the tiny L. Regnellii, which is the smallest of the Lzlias, and to-day 
quite rare. It is a perfect miniature of L. crispa. Of Cattleya there are 
C. Harrisoniana, Loddigesii, Forbesii, guttata, intermedia, Walkeriana, 
bicolor, velutina, and several natural hybrids, also Leliocattleya Binoti. 
Of Oncidium there are O. crispum (two varieties), Marshallianum, 
Forbesii, pretextum, aureum, sarcodes, pulvinatum, pumilum, pubes, 
micropogon, longipes, cornigerum, concolor, Brunleesianum, barbatum, 
unicorne, varicosum (two varieties), and a number of interesting types» 
many of which I believe are unclassified. Between O. sarcodes and O- 
