NOVEMBER, 1903.] THE ORCHID: REVIEW. 335 
ORCHIDS FROM HIGHBURY. 
Hysrip Orchids are now making a fine show in the collection of the Right 
Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham, and a beautiful series 
has been sent by Mr. Mackay. Cattleya Xx Ariel (Bowringiana x 
Gaskelliana) is a pretty rosy lilac hybrid about intermediate in shape, but 
most like C. Gaskelliana in colour. C. X Minucia, derived from C. 
Loddigesii and C. Warscewiczii, is a particularly well developed flower, 
the petals being over three inches long, C. X mollis isa very good variety 
raised from C. Gaskelliana alba X C. superba splendens. The sepals and 
petals are light rose-purple in colour, and the front of the lip deeper purple, 
while the throat is yellowish white, with a deep yellow area on the disc. 
C. X Pandora (bicolor X Trianz) is a handsome thing, with bright rose- 
purple sepals and petals, most like the latter in shape, and a lip much 
resembling C. bicolor, except in having light yellow auriculate side lobes, 
while the disc is bright yellow, and the front lobe of the most intense 
crimson-purple. Leelio-cattleya x Mandarin (L. crispa xX C. granulosa 
Schofieldiana) is a striking thing, most resembling the latter in its very 
deeply three-lobed lip, though nearer to L. crispa in the shape of the 
sepals and petals. Lastly may be mentioned flowers of L.-c. x Leeana and 
L.-c. X corbeillensis ; and respecting the latter Mr. Mackay remarks that a 
great many are in flower, and they show a good deal of variation. The 
cross was made by Mr. Chamberlaina long time ago, the recorded parentage 
being C. Harrisoniana X L. Dayana. Six forms are sent, and in each case 
the keels of the lip are more prominent than in L.-c. xX Leeana, while the 
influence of L. Dayana is seen in the shape and colour of the lip. The 
corrugated disc of C. Harrisoniana is very well marked; in one case the 
bright yellow area extending right across to the margins of the side lobes, 
in others these have a purple margin, while the front lobe is more or less 
deeply stained with purple. It is a very variable and pretty little hybrid. 
CATTLEYA x BRABANTIZ. 
“*THE work of hybridisation in Orchids goes bravely on, notwithstanding 
the remonstrances of those who deplore the confusion that it is likely to 
create amongst their favourite flowers.”. Thus wrote the Editor of the Floral 
Magazine, in 1867, when figuring Cattleya x Brabantiz (t. 360), the third 
of Messrs. Veitch’s fine series of hybrid Cattleyas, and now the plant has 
been almost lost sight of, although it received both a Silver Banksian Medal 
and a First-class Certificate in July, 1863, when it flowered for the first 
time. It was shown as Cattleya x hybrida, which Lindley changed to 
C. xX Aclandi-Loddigesii, remarking, “as the name is not sufficiently 
