264 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, 1908. 
HYBRID RECORDS. 
WE have repeatedly urged the necessity of full and exact statements in 
recording the parentage of hybrids, and the following correspondence may 
be interesting and instructive :— 
“Dear Mr. Editor, Mr. ——— wishes me to send you the enclosed 
hybrid derived from and ———, which he has named a 
On opening the box it was immediately seen that while the first parent was 
obviously correct the other was as certainly wrong. We therefore enquired 
if the plant was raised in the collection, whether the record was beyond 
question, and what the pseudobulbs and leaves were like. 
The answer duly arrived :—“ The plant was not raised in the collection, 
but was bought from of ———, and therefore not to be relied 
upon. The pseudobulbs are all double-leaved, and we agree now that it 
must have some other parent than —,so I suppose the name will have 
to be dropped.” But suppose we had unquestioningly put the name and 
the alleged facts upon record ? 
ARACHNANTHE ROHANIANA. 
I sHOWED a plant of Arachnanthe Rohaniana on the 15th October, 1907, 
at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, and obtained a First-class 
Certificate for it. Onthe 17th October I self-fertilised the plant in four 
different ways, pollinating a yellow flower with a brown, a brown with a 
yellow, a yellow with a yellow, and a brown with a brown. Four seed 
pods formed, of, so far as I could judge, exactly the same size. They were 
ripe on the 12th June, 1908, and taken from the plant. I sowed them on 
the 3rd July, and of the four lots of seed sown, of course in separate seed 
pans, only one germinated, and that was a yellow with a yellow. These 
were pricked off on the 7th August, and at present I have several very nice 
seedlings looking well. 
This suggests, although of course it is not a certain proof, that the 
brown flowers are unfertile, and that the yellow flowers only are seed- 
bearing when crossed with yellow. 
J. GuRNEY FowLer. 
““Glebelands,” South Woodford, Essex. 
[ Those brown flowers must have some use.—ED. | 
Larisa xX Rocersit.—Mr. Rogers writes to point out that the 
parentage of Lelia x Rogersii described at page 248, is L. Dayana X 
Cowanii, the latter being the pollen parent. | This information had not 
arrived when the note was written, hence sa remark * L, Cowan and I: 
Dayana." 
