﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



THE HYBRIDIST. 



Lycaste X Groganii. — We have again received flowers of a very pretty 

 yellow-flowered Lycaste from the collection of J. H. Grogan, Esq., 

 Slaney Park, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow (gr. Mr. W. F. Oliver), which was 

 obtained by intercrossing L. aromatica and L. Deppei, and has flowered on 

 two previous occasions. It is fairly intermediate in shape, being much 

 larger than L. aromatica, which, however, it most resembles in colour, and 

 in the shape of the sac of the lip, though the front lobe of the lip is longer 

 than in that species. There is no trace of the L. Deppei spots, though 

 there is a tinge of green about the ground colour. It is a handsome and 

 free-flowering hybrid, and we are unable to identify it with any yellow- 

 flowered kind yet described, though at least one of these is suspected to be 

 of hybrid origin. It has been crossed with L. Skinneri, and the seed is 

 ■now sown both of this and of the reverse cross. 



L.elio-cattleya X Rocksand.— This is a very pretty Laelio-cattleya 

 sent from the collection of Sir James Miller, Bart., Manderston, Duns, N.B., 

 .by Mr. Hamilton. It is said to have been obtained from Messrs. Sander 

 and Sons, of Bruges, and to have been raised from Cattleya X Schroederse 

 X Lselia grandis, and it shows the influence of the last rare species very 

 ■clearly in the somewhat undulate petals, and some purple veining on the 

 lip. The prevailing colour is a very light rosy purple, with a darker 

 .blotch on the front of the lip. In its broader segments it approaches the 

 Cattleya parent in shape, and in the pseudobulbs it is also said to resemble 

 rthis species. The plant is hardly fully developed at present. 



CHLORiEA INCISA. 



About a year ago we gave a note respecting three species of Chloraea 

 which were collected by H. J. Elwes, Esq., during his recent trip to Chili, 

 :and flowered in the Kew collection. It is interesting to note that Mr. Elwes 

 has now flowered an additional species, namely C. incisa, of which dried 

 -specimens were also collected by him. The species was described and figured 

 nearly seventy years ago {Pcepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp., i., p. 31, t. 54), 

 .but does not seem to have been previously cultivated. It is a striking plant, 

 nearly allied to C. crispa, but has smaller flowers, which are white, marked 

 with green. The plant grows from two to three feet high, and produces 

 scapes of eight or nine flowers. The sepals are oblong, obtuse, inches 

 long, and the lateral pair bear on their face near the apex a series of green 

 .appendages, rather smaller than those found on the lip. The petals are 

 broader, an inch long, and are studded with rows of green papillae from 

 middle to base. The lip is broadly ovate, obtuse, and obscurely trilobed, 



