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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[September, 1914 



Brasso-Lalia Mrs. M. Gratrix. 



Society, on July i ith of the same year, it 

 obtained a similar award and also one of the 

 two Veitch Memorial Gold Medals offered for 

 the best new hybrids not previously exhibited. 

 This medal, however, was soon afterwards 

 withdrawn on discovering that the plant had 

 been previously shown at Manchester. 



One of the most striking characteristics of 

 C. Rothschildianum is the staminode ; it has 

 a stout base, and rises erect, bending down 

 into a beak-like, narrow process, partly 

 covered with hairs, and looking much like the 

 throat and head of some such bird as the 

 crane. This peculiarity is carried forward in 

 the hybrids with considerable force, as also 

 are the long and pointed lateral petals. 



For the loan of the illustration we 

 are indebted to the Journal of Horticulture. 



BRASSO.Ly^LLIA MRS. M. 

 GRATRIX. 



THE first Brasso-Laslia appeared in 

 December, 1898, and resulted from 

 the use of B. Digbyana and L. 

 purpurata. Quite naturally it attracted no 

 small amount of attention, for but few hybrids 

 of B. Digbyana had then been seen. The 

 second Brasso-Laelia, produced by crossing 

 L. cinnabarina with B. Digbyana, received 

 the name B.-L. Mrs. M. Gratrix and was given 



