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THE ORCHin WORLD. 



[February, 1914. 



NEW HYBRIDS. 



Cypripedium J. Croil Meek. — This 

 pretty and useful hybrid is the result of 

 crossing Mastersianum with Hera (Boxalli x 

 Leeanum). Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. 

 Albans, are the raisers. 



CyMBIDIUM Nada. — An elegant hybrid 

 resulting from crossing eburneum with Lowio- 

 grandiflorum. In colour greenish-yellow with 

 red markings on the lip. Raised by Mr. H. G. 

 Alexander in the Westonbirt collection. 



Cymbidium Coningsbyanum. — An 

 attractive hybrid between grandiflorum 

 (Hookerianum) and insigne, recently flowered 

 by Mr. G. Hamilton Smith, of Church End, 

 Finchle}^ The plant carried a spike of nine 

 flowers, creamy-yellow, slightly flushed with 

 rose, the large lip spotted with red-brown. 



Odontoglossum L U M I N O S U M. — By 

 crossing armainvillierense with Fascinator 

 many pleasing hybrids with branched spikes 

 of spotted flowers have been obtained. Raised 

 by Messrs. Sander and Sons. 



Odontoglossum lucidum. — Ossulstonii 



and triumphans are the parents of this new 

 hybrid, recently named by Messrs. Sander 

 and Sons. The former parent is a hybrid 

 between crispo-Harryanum and nobile. 



L^LIO-Cattleya Tagus. — Messrs. Flory 

 and Black have flowered a pretty hybrid 

 between L.-C. Dominiana and L. Latona. 

 The flower has the sepals and petals of a 

 peculiar yellow tint, the lip crimson with 

 shades of purple. 



L^lio-Cattleya Bellona. — A useful 

 late autumn flowering hybrid has been raised 

 by Messrs. Sander and Sons. It is the result 

 of crossing L. autumnalis with C. Lord 

 Rothschild. The former parent is a well- 

 known Mexican species, and the latter a 

 hybrid betv/een Gaskelliana and aurea. 



L^lio-Cattleya aurealis. — A new 

 primary hybrid. The parents are L. 

 autumnalis and C. aurea, the result being a 

 useful addition to the autumn flowering 

 section. Raised by Messrs. Sander and Sons. 



L^LIA EVERSHOTENSIS. — This hybrid 

 between xanthina and lona (tenebrosa x 

 Dayana) has been raised by Mr. Eustace F. 



Clark, Evershot, Dorset. A yellowish-green 

 flower with a crimson veined lip, mainly 

 taking after the seed parent in the shape and 

 colour of the sepals and petals, but with more 

 purple veining in the lip, derived from the 

 pollen parent. The habit is dwarf, and the 

 bud emerges from the nearly completed 

 growth, as in lona and Dayana. The cross 

 was made September, 1902, and the seed 

 ripened in May, 1903. 



Cypripedium Centaur. — Thalia and 

 Alcibiades, both parents of note, have yielded 

 some very promising seedlings, which will 

 still improve as they gain in strength. Messrs. 

 Sander and Sons are the raisers. 



Cypripedium Erebus. — Hera var 

 Euryades x Milo (insigne x oenanthum) is the 

 parentage of this new Cypripedium recently 

 flowered by Messrs. Sander and Sons. 



Cypripedium Pan.— A pretty hybrid, of 

 which the parents are Clive and Corona. 

 Raised by Messrs. Sander and Sons. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM NEPHELE. 



(naevii'tn >^ luteopurpureum,) 



Had this bloomed in the eighties from an 

 importation, if that had been possible, it 

 would have commanded a great amount of 

 interest, as did Cookeanum (blandum x 

 triumphans), to which it has a family likeness. 



Having a fine plant of the variety known 

 as naevium majus (Bateman's Monograph), I 

 made some experimental crosses for scientific 

 proof. They have proved interesting, and 

 are also elegant, and if those who have this 

 variety put very fine things to it no doubt 

 some very pretty things will be produced. 



Nephele's whole flower is uniformly light 

 yellow, the light brown markings on the 

 sepals and petals being scattered. The lip is 

 that of a very narrow luteo with the blade 

 and apiculus extended more than usual by the 

 influence of naevium ; there is one small 

 blotch under the keels, and a few spots below 

 on each side. Column almost exactlv as in 

 naevium, but yellowish-white. 



dc B. Crmi'sliay, Roseficld, Jan. iStJi, IQ14. 



