282 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1903. 
CATTLEYA x LUCIENIANA. 
At the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting held on August 18th, a 
handsome Cattleya was exhibited by Messrs. Stanley Ashton & Co., of 
Southgate, as a supposed natural hybrid between C. Harrisoniana and 
C. Schilleriana. It came home in an iniportation of the former, and bears 
a considerable resemblance to it, but the petals are very distinctly undulate, 
and there are other modifications, which no doubt suggested the idea of its 
being a natural hybrid. The lip has the characteristic Harrisoniana 
corrugations on the disc, and the reddish veining on the interior of the side 
lobes, while the front lobe is very prettily crisped. The sepals and petals 
are bright rose-purple in colour, the side lobes of the lip rosy lilac, and the 
front lobe rose-purple. It is not any of the well-known natural hybrids, but 
I strongly suspect that it may. belong to the long-lost C. x Lucieniana, 
Rchb. f., which I have never been able to identify. This plant was described 
as long ago as 1885, as follows :— 
**A lovely Cattleya, with the bulbs and leaves of C. Harrisoniana, and a 
flower much like that of C. Isabella, Rchb. f., but much darker and richer 
in colour. The rather narrow sepals and petals are of a fine brown, most 
beautifully enlivened by a wash of purple. The lip is trifid. Its side laciniz 
are blunt, triangular, the mid laciniz cuneate, cordate, emarginate, of the 
richest purple, the disc between the side lacinia having red keels. The side 
lacinia are pale yellow, with thick reddish veins. Column white, with 
purple lines on side, and numerous small points of purple. The front side 
of the column is whitish yellow at the base, with numerous purple lines 
around the border of the fovea. One might take it for a dark C. Isabelle, 
and so I did at first sight ; the lip, however, has the anterior lacinia granu- 
late, and the inner base of the column is broken up into keels. There can 
be no doubt its parents are Cattleya Forbesii and guttata or granulosa. It 
is dedicated with pleasure to M. Lucien Linden, who kindly sent it to me.” 
—Gard. Chron., 1885, il, p. 456. 
On comparing the living flower with this description two or three very 
strong resemblances are seen, but especially the combination of the rich 
purple coloration with the remarkable reddish thickened veins of the lip on 
a light yellow ground. This character of the veiningof the lip is, among the 
species, limited to C. Harrisoniana and C. Forbesii, of which the former 
alone is purple. For this reason I do not think Reichenbach’s suggestion 
_ of the parentage is correct. C. Forbesii crossed with either C. guttata or 
C. granulosa would not yield a richly coloured hybrid. Nor can I think 
that C. Schilleriana was one of the parents, for so far as our present know- 
ledge extends it grows far away from C. Harrisoniana, which was evidently 
.one parent of the plant exhibited. I should think C. Leopoldi a far more 
