﻿3 o THE ORCHID REVIEW. [January, 1904. 



and elsewhere, success or failure wholly depending on careful potting and 

 watering. As soon as the plants are at rest, they should be re-potted,, 

 care being taken in turning them out, as the majority of the new tubers will 

 be found among the drainage of the pan. Pot in a good porous compost of 

 peat, loam, and sphagnum, adding finely-broken crocks and sand in quantity. 

 Place them in a rather shady corner of the Warm house, where they will be 

 free from drip and the syringe, as water, if allowed to lodge on the plants, 

 soon disfigures the beautiful foliage. The rate at which this species increases 

 is somewhat remarkable, for the plant figured had five tubers when potted 

 in December, 190J, but when re-potted in December, 1903, it had nineteen 

 tubers." 



Colesborne Park, Cheltenham. W. H. Walters. 



Neomoorea irrorata. — It would appear that the remarkable Orchid, 

 Moorea irrorata, requires to be renamed, the generic name Moorea being 

 preoccupied, having been applied to the well-known Pampas Grass as long 

 ago as 1855 ; a fact which has been overlooked until recently. The history 

 of the question has recently been given by Dr. Stapf (Card. Chron., 1903, 

 h., p- 399)- The Pampas Grass, with three other species, has recently been 

 separated from Gynerium, under the name of Cortaderia (Stapf in Gard. 

 Chron., 1897, ii., p. 357), but Moorea was applied to the plant over forty 

 years earlier, and therefore is not available for the Orchid genus, which may 

 be amended to Neomoorea. Neomoorea irrorata, Rolfe, is well figured at 

 t. 7262 of the Botanical Magazine, and its history was given in this work 

 some time ago (vol. ix., p. 158). It is a very striking plant, and at present 



THE HYBRIDIST. 



L^lio-cattleya X Lydia. — A very pretty novelty was exhibited by 

 Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on December 

 15th, under the above name, of which flowers are now sent. It was raised 

 from Laelia Cowanii ? and Cattleya Gaskelliana alba $ , and has flowers 

 fairly intermediate in shape, and .of a pleasing bright canary yellow colour 

 throughout, except that the disc of the lip is of a deeper yellow shade. The 

 sepals and petals are at present two inches long, and the latter £ in. across. 

 The lip is three-lobed, with the front lobe prettily undulate, and the side 

 lobes when spread out extend to ii inches broad. It is an interesting 

 addition to the group, and should develop into a striking thing when the 



