I may take the hybrids as they stand, with no methodical arrangement. L.-C. means the product of a Laelia and a Cattleya, or, somewhat loosely, of a Cattleya and a Laelia. C. × means the product of two Cattleyas; L. × of two Laelias.
_L.-C. Ancona_ (Catt. Harrisoniae × L. purpurata) represents each parent almost equally, taking after Catt. Harrisoniae in colour and size of sepal and petal; in general shape and in the hues of the labellum after L. purpurata.
_L.-C. Nysa_ (L. crispa × Catt. Warcewiczii).--Pale mauve--the petals have a sharp touch of crimson at the tips. Labellum all evenly crimson with a narrow outline of white, gracefully frilled.
_L. × Measuresiana._--A natural hybrid, very rare, assumed to be the product of L. elegans × L. purpurata. Rosy mauve. From the tube, very long, the labellum opens squarely, purple, with a clouded throat and dusky yellow 'eyes.'
_L.-C. Arnoldiana_ (L. purpurata × Catt. labiata). Large, clear mauve. Petals much attenuated at the ends, which gives them a sort of 'fly-away' appearance. The fine expanded lip, of carmine crimson, is clouded with a deeper tint round the orange throat.
_L. × Claptonensis_ (L. elegans × L. Dormaniana).--Small, white with a rosy flush. The long shovel lip is brilliantly crimson, fading to a white edge.
_L.-C. amanda._--A natural hybrid of which Catt. intermedia is one parent, L. Boothiana perhaps the other. Pale pink. The yellow throat and the bright rosy lip show lines of deep crimson, strongly 'feathered' on either side.
_L. × Gravesiae_ (L. crispa superba × L. praestans).--Small, rosy white. The spade-like lip is magenta-crimson, wonderfully smooth and brilliant, with two little yellow 'eyes' in the throat.
_L.-C. Tiresias_ (Catt. Bowringiana × L. elegans).--The petals are exactly oval, saving pretty twirls and twists at the edges--soft bright mauve, the narrow sepals paler. The funnel lip does not open wide, but in colour it is like the richest and silkiest crimson velvet, almost maroon at the throat; charmingly frilled and gauffered.
_C. × Portia._--Parents doubtful, but evidently Catt. Bowringiana is one of them, Catt. labiata perhaps the other. Sepals and petals lively mauve, the latter darker. The funnel of the lip brightest rose, disc of the softest tenderest crimson imaginable, deepening against the pale yellowish throat.