Plate 249 . 
LiELIA PUMILA DAYANA. 
This very nice addition to dwarf winter blooming Ltelias was imported by Messrs. Low 
and Co., of Clapton, with whom (as also with Mr. John Day, of Tottenham) it has 
recently flowered. Onr drawing was made from a remarkably vigorous plant sent by Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, of Burford Lodge, Dorking, to a recent meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, at which time it received a first-class certificate as being well worthy of general 
culture. In habits and time of flowering it agrees with Lcelia pumila , but the colours as 
shown in our plate are much more effective, and the flowers are more shapely and of a more 
wax-like texture. The oblique pose of the flowers at once suggests those of the little-known 
L. prastans , but the plates of the lip differ from those of that plant, and also from those of 
L. pumila ; still we prefer following Reichenbach to making any addition to the already too 
numerous Orchids invested with false specific honours. Mr. Casey informs me that this plant 
and its ally, L.pumila {Cattleya pumila or C. marginata of gardens), were imported together 
from the same habitat, and that some forms of it are almost wholly of a dark maroon purple 
tint, the white-throated sub-variety being however the most beautiful. Our figure is the 
best description of this plant we can now give. 
Analysis : 1. Lip seen from the front, and partially flattened, 2. Column, enlarged. 3. Do. side view, 
natural size. 4. Pollen-masses, enlarged. 
Plate 250 . 
HYBRID NARCISSI. 
The late Dean Herbert demonstrated that many of the so-called species of Narcissus were 
in reality cultural hybrids, and Dr. Henon, who especially studied the French species of 
Narcissi, pointed out as long ago as 1840, that in a meadow at Lattes, near Montpelier, 
might be seen natural hybrids between N. poeticus and N. Tazetta passing through N. 
biflorus without any appreciable line of demarcation. By crossing N. poeticus and N. Pseudo- 
Narcissus Dean Herbert produced a plant nearly identical with N. incomparabilis , and experi¬ 
ments conducted by himself and Mr. Trevor Alcock proved N adorus to be an hybrid between 
N. Pseudo-Narcissus and N. Jonguilla. Among other seedlings raised by Herbert were hybrids 
between N. poeticus and N. Pseudo-Narcissus minor; N poeticus and N. montanus; and N Tazetta 
(var. “ Staten General ”) and A. Pseudo-Narcissus. 
Mr. Leeds, of Longford Bridge, Manchester, has also raised some beautiful 
hybrid kinds, and of these our plate contains four of the most distinct and inte¬ 
resting. No. 1 (the central flower) is an intermediate between N. Pseudo-Narcissus 
and N. incomparabilis , which possesses the funnel-shaped corona of the first parent 
and the long stems and expanded segments of the latter. No. 2 is the result of crossing 
N. Macleai and N. poeticus , and is a shapely attractive flower. No. 3 is a large seedling 
form of N. poetarum {poeticus aurantius ), and No. 4 an enlarged seminal form of 
N. Macleai , having a cylindrical corona slightly contracted at the mouth. Other hybrid 
Narcissi are figured and described in “ The Narcissus ; its History and Culture,” to which 
reference may be made for further information. 
