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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[Xoxembcr, 1914. 



B. Skinneri is a beautiful free-flowering 

 species, with erect stems a foot high clotlied 

 with rather fleshy leaves. It is one of the 

 many discoveries of Mr. Ure Skinner, who 

 sent it to Mr. Bateman in 1835, in whose 

 collection it flowered during" the following 

 year. It is a native of Guatemala, where it 

 grows upon trees on the mountains. The 

 flower-spikes are often 2 feet in length, 

 each bearing from twenty to thirty flowers, of 

 bright magenta-purple, except the yellow 

 disc and orange lamellae of the lip. The 

 period of blooming is from November to 

 February, so it forms one of the best of 

 wmter-flowering Orchids. 



B. spectabilis was also sent from Guatemala 

 by Mr. Ure Skinner. It is a charming species, 

 with cylindrical stems 4 or 5 inches high. 

 I he spikes carry eight or ten spreading 

 blooms, each about 3 to 4 inches wide, of 

 rosy-lilac colour, the lip paler and spotted 

 with deep purple. Specimens have been 

 grown with as many as twenty spikes of 

 bloom, and when so exhibited have a fine 

 effect. 



NEW HYBRIDS. 



Cattleya Beatrice.— a very beautiful 

 result has been achieved by Messrs. Hassall 

 and Co., who raised this hybrid between C. 

 Minucia (Loddigesii x Warscewiczii) and C. 

 aurea. The colour of the thick upstanding 

 sepals and petals is bright golden buff, the 

 open labellum of similar colour but with a 

 broad crimson-purple band round the margin. 



L.tlio-Cattleya Stelis. — Raised by 

 Mr. Thurgood in the Rosslyn collection, 

 Stamford Hill. The parents are L.-C. bletch- 

 leyensis and C. mtncata, the latter being a 

 natural h\-bnd between intermedia and 

 Leopoldii, although it has also been raised 

 artificially. 



Cattleya General Pau.— This new 

 primary hybrid between Lueddemanniana 

 and labiata has been recently flowered by the 

 raisers, Messrs. Sander and Sons. The 

 flower is of large dimensions, and clearly 

 shows the characteristic marbling on the hp 

 of the former parent. 



Cattleya General French. — Messrs. 

 .Sander and Sons have raised this attractive 

 hybrid, the parents being C. Ella (W'arsce- 

 wiczii X bicolor) and C. Dowiana. Some of 

 the seedlings resemble large forms of C. Iris 

 and C. Adula, while others take after the 

 well-known C. Hardyana. 



Cattleya Maroniris. — The name of 

 this hybrid suggests its parentage, Maronii x 

 Ins, which is made up of aurea, bicolor and 

 velutina, hence the progeny will be mainly of 

 yellow and bronze-yellow tints. Raised by 

 Messrs. Armstrong and Brown, Tunbridge 

 Wells. 



L.elio-Cattleyas. — The following have 

 been raised by Messrs. Armstrong and 

 Brown : — L.-C. Pronax (L.-C. elegans x L.-C. 

 Geo. Woodhams), L.-C. Probus (C. Octave 

 Doin X L.-C. Geo. Woodhams), L.-C. Priola 

 (L.-C. Geo. Woodhams x C. Mrs. Pitt), L.-C. 

 P) los (C. Caduceus x L.-C. Geo. Woodhams), 

 L.-C. Brutus (L.-C. bletchleyensis x C. 

 Warscewiczii), and L.-C. Pirus (L.-C. luminosa 

 X L.-C. elegans). 



Cattleya Pandemus. — A useful hybrid 

 composed of the three species bicolor, 

 Leopoldii and aurea, the first two having been 

 connected many years ago in the Woodlands 

 collection where it was known under the 

 name C. Mrs. Mahler. This last-mentioned 

 plant and C. aurea have been used by Messrs. 

 Armstrong and Brown in the production of 

 C. Pandemus. 



Cymbidium Hanburyanum. — A very 

 attractive primary hybrid between Tracyanum 

 and erythrostylum has been raised in the 

 collection of Mr. Fred. J. Hanbury, Brock- 

 hurst, East Grinstead. The flowers, borne 

 5-6 on semi-erect spikes, are light greenish- 

 yellow in colour, the sepals and upstanding 

 falcate petals lined with dull crimson ; the 

 three-lobed hairy labellum heavily spotted 

 with dark crimson on the inner side of the 

 lateral lobes, and with larger spots on the 

 yellowish median lobe ; column arching in 

 form, of rose-red colour, anther cap creamy- 

 white. This is the second hybrid of C. 

 erythrostylum to be recorded, the first 

 being C. Florinda, described in Vol. IV., 

 p. 36. 



