Tab. Bisse. 2 
x ODONTIODA nHxatonensts. 
Garden Hybrid. 
Orcnipaceak. Tribe VANDEAE. 
Opontiopa, genus inter Cochliodam et Odontoglossum hybridum. 
Odontioda heatonensis, Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xxxix. p. 158; Orch. Rev. 
itt p- 118; inter Cochliadam sanguineam et Odontoglossum cirrhosum 
ybrida, 
Herba epiphytica, circa 25-30 cm. alta. Pseudobulbi ovoideo-cblongi, sub- 
compressi, apice monophylli, basi 3-4-phylli, 4-5°5 em. longi. Folia 
oblonga, subacuta, apice recurva, subcoriacea, 6-15 cm. longa, 2-5 em. 
lata. Scapi axillares, erecti, circa 30 cm. longi; racemi laxi, multiflori. 
Bracteae ovato-oblongae, acutae, 4-5 mm. longae. Pedicelli 2-25 em. 
longi. Flores speciosi, candidi, segmentis apice roseo-suffusis, basi roseo- 
maculatis. Sepala oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, 2-2°5 cm. longa. 
Petala oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, sepalis paullo breviora et latiora. 
fabellum liberum, late unguicalatum ; limbus patens, subtrilobus, ovatus, 
apice acuminatus et recurvus, 1°5-2 cm. longus; discus bicristatus, cristis 
_ late oblongis compressis et bidentatis. Coluwmna clavata, fere 1 cm. 
longa, alis subulatis. 
About three years ago a hybrid was raised between 
Odontoglossum nobile, Reichb. f., and Cochlioda Noetzliana, 
Rolfe, to which the generic name of Odontioda was given, 
and the plant was figured in this Magazine (t. 7990). 
Since that time three other members of this artificial 
genus have appeared, one of which is figured in the 
accompanying plate. It was raised by Messrs. Charles- 
worth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, from Odontoglossum cir- 
rhosum, Lind]. (B. M. t. 6317), and Cochlioda sanguinea, 
‘Benth. (Mesospinidium sanguineum, Reichb. f.. B. M. 
t. 5627), the former being the seed-bearer, and flowered 
for the first time in March, 1906, when it was exhibited 
at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, and 
received an Award of Merit. Several seedlings have 
flowered, and, as generally happens with hybrids, show a 
certain amount of variation in size and colour. One of 
the plants has been presented to the Kew collection. 
The two other Odontiodae are O. Bohnhoffiae, a hybrid 
between Cochlioda vulcanica, Benth. et Hook. f. (Meso- 
spinidium vuleanicum, Reichb. f.; B. M. t. 6001), and 
Odontoglossum ctrrhosum, Lind., and QO. Bradshawiae, 
derived from Cochlioda Noetzliana, Rolfe, and Odcentcglossum 
May lst, 1907. 
