Plate 280 . 
CALANTHE YEITGHII. 
We figured, a short time since, one of the most beautiful 
of Mr. Dominy’s results in the hybridizing of Orchids—for 
Cattleya Exoniensis may certainly lay claim to such a title; 
we now have the pleasure of adding another, which, if pos- 
sible, is still more interesting, as combining so thoroughly the 
properties of both parents. 
44 It forms a tuft of flower-stems one foot and a half in 
length, loaded with blossoms of the richest rose-colour, of dif¬ 
ferent degrees of intensity. Mr. Dominy produced it in the 
Nursery of Messrs. Yeitch and Sons, of Exeter, by fertilizing 
Limatocles rosea , a rich rose-coloured beautiful Indian Orchid, 
with that variety of the white Calanthe vestita , which has a 
deep purple spot at the base of the lip. The result has been 
most curious: the hybrid, although completely intermediate 
between the two parents, yet shows a greater tendency to its 
mother than to its father; of the father it has exactly the 
manner of growth, and the peculiar four-lobed lip; but it has 
the rich colour of its mother, and some other peculiarities of 
her lip, along with an entire correspondence in form with her 
column.”* 
When we had the opportunity of seeing this very lovely 
plant at Mr. Yeitch’s, it was in the cold dreary month of 
November, and the fact of its being a winter-flowering Orchid 
gives greatly-increased interest to it. Amongst the properties 
of Limatocles rosea shared by C. Yeitchii , is that of the flower- 
stem lengthening as the bloom expands, so that frequently it 
forms one of three or four feet in length. As the flowers at 
* ‘ Gardeners' Chronicle,’ quoted in Botanical Magazine. 
