322 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ NovEMBER, 1909. 
possibilities to the Cattleya hybridist. It is impossible to overrate the 
importance of C. Dowiana and S. grandiflora, for the latter, although not 
large, has a new and intense colour, and the shape is good. 
This sounds as though S. grandiflora had been ‘but recently 
discovered and had never been attempted by the hybridist, but although 
Sophronitis has always been available, and the first hybrid from it, namely 
Sophrocattleya Batemaniana, appeared in 1886, it has perhaps never yet 
been generally taken in hand. True, a few have taken it up, and worked 
pretty hard at it, but it has not been work that has given a generous return 
Fig. 24. SOPHROCAITLEYA THWAITES 
(Sepals ina petals carmine red ; lip rich, soft yellow, pi bright 
margins and apex 
as far as quantity is concerned, and some have turned aside from it 
disheartened at the small return, to follow up other lines that yielded a fuller 
harvest. 
There are, however, now some forty-eight hybrids having Sophronitis 
grandiflora in some proportion in their composition, quite sufficient, one 
would say, to make their influence felt and give data galore upon which to 
appraise their possibilities in the future. I have made a list of all the 
existing flowered Sophronitis hybrids, and at first sight, and taken in the 
aggregate, the result, or effect, is undeniably disappointing, but there are 
