﻿344 



THE ORCHID REVIEW. [November, 1904. 



Messrs. Veitch (Man. Orch., ix., p. 67) say: "This hybrid, whether 

 in its botanical or horticultural aspect, is one of the most interesting we 

 have yet raised." It was the result of a cross effected by Seden, the worthy 

 successor of Dominy, between Colax jugosus and Zygopetalum crinitum, 

 respectively the male and female parents of the hybrid. The seed was sown 

 in September, 1882, and the first flowers were produced in March, 1887. 

 Truly the gardener has to wait for the flowers of his labour ! Zygocolax X 

 Veitchii is also noteworthy as having been the principal subject of Mr. R. A. 

 Rolfe's excellent articles on a uniform plan of naming bigeneric hybrid 

 Orchids. He followed Dr. M. M. T. Masters in combining elements of the 

 names of the two genera concerned, and this has now become almost 

 universal in practice. Another point of special interest and importance in 

 the plant figured is that it is of natural origin, having been imported 

 direct from Brazil by Mr. Kromer, Roraima Nursery, Croydon, as we are 

 informed by Mr. Young, gardener to Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., in whose 

 garden at East Sheen the plant in question flowered in February of the 

 present year. But, as Mr. Rolfe has pointed out, it does not differ from the 

 original Z. X Veitchii, and therefore deserves no distinctive name. 



A full description with references accompanies the plate, and it may be 

 remembered that a note on this plant was given at page 93 of the present 



THE HYBRIDIST. 



Sophrocattleya X Doris. — This is a most brilliant little hybrid, which 

 was exhibited at a meeting of the Manchester Orchid Society on October 

 27th, by John Leemann, Esq., of Heaton Mersey, and was unanimously 

 awarded a First-class Certificate. It was derived from Sophronitis grandi- 

 flora and Cattleya Dowiana aurea, and the flower, which has been sent to 

 us, shows the most unmistakable evidence of its origin. In fact the flower 

 reached us in advance of the information, and we instantly detected its 

 parentage. The flower most resembles the Sophronitis parent, but is 

 enlarged to over 3! inches in diameter, and the lip to nearly I4 inches long, 

 with ample infolded side lobes, and distinct traces of the characteristic 

 golden yellow veining of the Cattleya parent on the disc. With such 

 characters there is no mistaking its origin. In colour the influence of the 

 Sophronitis parent greatly preponderates, as the flower is bright rosy 

 crimson almost throughout, except for the orange on the disc of the lip, and 

 a trace of similar shading on the petals. These latter are i| inches 

 broad. It is a gem of the first water, and it will be interesting to see what 

 it develops into at another time of flowering. We have not seen the plant, 

 and hope it possesses a good constitution. 



