HORTUS VEITCHII 



EPIDENDEUM x ELEGANTULUM, var. AUEEUM. 



Orchid Review, 1896, vol. iv. p. 108. 



A paler coloured form of the type in which the sepals and petals are 

 entirely light yellow and the disc of the lip nearly half red-purple in 

 radiating lines. 



EPIDENDEUM x ELEGANTULUM, var. LEUCOCHILUM. 



Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. xxiii. p. 238 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; Diet. Ic. des 

 Orchidees, Epidendrum hybr. pi. la. 



A variety of the type with yellow sepals and petals and a pronounced 

 pure white lip. 



EPIDENDEUM x ENDEESIO-WALLISII, Hort. Bolfe. 



Orchid Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 104; Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xi. p. 88 (Report of R.H.S. 



Orchid Committee). 



A hybrid obtained by crossing two species widely different in size and 

 appearance. 



The pollen parent is the rare and lovely Epidendrum Endresii, a native 

 of Costa Eica, few plants of which have been imported alive ; the seed 

 parent is E. Wallisii, from the Frontino district of New Grenada. 



The flowers from different plants vary considerably in colour, and are 

 about 1 in. in diameter and most freely produced. 



EPIDENDEUM x LANGLEYENSE. 



Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. xxv. p. 402 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee). 



Eaised at Langley from Epidendrum Pseudepidendrum and E. Wallisii, 

 the latter being the seed parent. 



EPIDENDEUM x O'BEIENIANUM, Bolfe. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. iii. p. 771, with figs. ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vi. 

 p. 128, with figs, reproduced ; Diet. Ic. des Orchidees, Epidendrum hybr. pi. 2. 



Eaised and first flowered in the spring of the year 1888, the first 

 artificially produced hybrid in the genus to be raised in this country. 



The species used as parents were Epidendrum erectum and E. radicans, 

 and the hybrid shows fairly intermediate characters. 



It was named in compliment to Mr. James O'Brien, a well-known 

 authority on Orchidaceous Plants. 



EPIDENDEUM x EADICO-VITELLINUM, O'Brien. 



J. O'Brien in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 16; Orchid Review, 1897, vol. v. p. 314. 



Eaised from the two species expressed by the name, and of slender 

 growth, the root-bearing stems, furnished with alternate leaves. The 

 evidence of the mother is seen in the soft green tint and slightly glaucous 



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