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When Masdevallia splendida and M. Parlatorea were described, some 
ten years previously, Reichenbach had thrown owt the suggestion that 
they might be natural hybrids, and Messrs. Veitch accordingly crossed 
together the two species with which they came home, namely WM. Vevtch- 
iana and M. Barleana, using the latter as pollen parent. In 1888 the 
seedlings began to flower, and proved identical with the wild hybrids, 
which were now seen to be simply forms of one. 
The first artificially raised Odontoglossum flowered in 1890, and 
proved interesting on another account. It was raised by M. Leroy, 
gardener to Baron Edmond de Rothschild, of Armainvilliers, near Paris, 
by crossing O. crispwm with the pollen of O. luteo-purpureum, and was 
named O. Leroyanum. It was, however, immediately recognised as 2 
form of O. x Wilckeanwm, which in 1894 had been described by Reichen- 
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bach as a natural hybrid between the self-same two species, and soon 
afterwards it was traced back to 1872, when it flowered in the collection 
of Lord Londesborough, and was described and figured under the name 
of O. x Denisome. 
A year later Messrs. Veitch flowered a third hybrid which had been 
raised with the express purpose of proving the origin of suspected wild 
hybrids. This was Odontoglossum x excellens, described by Reichenbach 
in 1881 as probably a natural hybrid between O. Pescatoret and O. tri- 
pudians. The second parent suggested was obviously incorrect, as the 
characters of the hybrid agree much better with O. triwnphans, and 
consequently the pollen of this was used in a cross with O. Pescatoret, 
which yielded offspring absolutely identical with the wild plant. 
In 1892 Messrs. F. Sander & Co. also flowered a hybrid which proved 
the origin of a wild plant. It had been obtained by crossing Cattleya 
intermedia and C. Forbesii, and on flowering I immediately recognised 
