Tas. 7990. 
xX. ODONTIODA VUYLSTEKER. 
Of Garden Origin. 
Nat. Ord. OrcurpacEx.—Tribe VANDEX. 
Opontiopa, genus inter Odontoglossum et Cochliodam hybridum. 
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Opontiopa Vuylstekee; psendobulbis ovoideis, foliis circiter 3 floribus co- 
eetaneis anguste lanceolatis acutis 6-9 poil. longis recurvis, scapo foliis 
breviore suberecto 6-floro, floribus circiter 2} poll. diametro, sepalis 
petalis similibus ovato-lanceolatis vix acutis leviter undulatis basi 
sanguineis supra medium albidis rubro-maculatis margine roseis, labello 
panduriformi petalis dimidio breviore basi aureo lobis lateralibus rotun- 
datis sanguineis lobo intermedio latiore rotundato sinuato albo 
sanguineo-maculato, polliniis non visis. 
Odontioda Vuylstekex, Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 360, f.159. Orch. Rev. 
vol. xii. (1904), pp. 189, 209, f.34. Gard. Mag. 1904, p. 376, cum fig. 
Journ. Hort. 1904, vol. i. p. 487, cum fig. The Garden, vol. Ixy. (1904), 
p. 433, cum fig. 
Under tab. 7980 we gave some particulars of bigeneric 
orchids with references to the literature of the subject. 
Odontioda is recorded as the result of a cross between 
Odontoglossum nobile, Reichb. f., in “ Linnea,” vol, xxi. 
(1849), p. 850 (syn. OU. Pescatorei, Linden, ex Lindl. in 
Lindley & Paxton’s ‘‘ Flower Garden,” vol. ii. p. 83, 
t. 90), and Cochlioda Noetzliana, Rolfe (B. M. t. 7474), but 
it is not stated which was the seed parent. Judging from 
other crosses of a similar kind, we venture to suggest that 
it was the Odontoglosswm, the bulbs and leaves being very 
similar, and the flowers also, in shape. Indeed the only 
obvious feature derivable from the Cochlioda is the colour, 
But a writer in the ‘‘ Orchid Review” says: ‘ Beside the 
brilliant colour and partially adnate lip, there is a trace of 
connexity about all the segments which also shows the 
influence of the Cochlioda parent.” 
Odontioda was raised by Mr. Ch. Vuylsteke, of Loo- 
christi, Ghent, and he exhibited the spike of flowers at the 
‘'emple Show, last May. It caused great excitement, and 
was the centre of attraction, and the judges marked their 
appreciation by awarding it a First-class Certificate and 
a silver-gilt Lindley medal. Miss Smith made a sketch of 
DecEMBER Ist, 1904. 
