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Odontoglossum continued. 



but which, in this work, are referred to the genus 

 Miltonia, will not hybridise or, at any rate, no one, 

 up to the present time, has succeeded in making them 

 do go w ith any of the true Odontoglots. Certainly, it 



Odontoglossum continued. 



Through some mistake or other, Mr. Bentham, in the 

 " Genera Plantarum," asserts the contrary. 



A considerable number of Odontoglots, which are 

 generally accorded specific rank, are here reduced to 



appears to favour the view here taken of the generic 

 affinities of the plants in question, when, on the authority 

 of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, we are enabled to state that, 

 with other Miltonias, they cross and intercross readily. 



varieties. In this we have been guided, to a great 

 extent, by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who have made a 

 special study of the genus, and carefully compared, as 

 they flowered, the numerous specimens of each so-called 



