APRIL, 1914.] THE: ORCHID. REVIEW. 105 
Ie ODONTIODA LATONA VAR. PEARL. 
EVERAL cases of reversion have been recorded among secondary 
hybrid Odontiodas, but none more remarkable than that of O. 
Latona var. Pearl, which is here figured from a photograph kindly sent by 
Clive Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam. The seed bearer was the 
handsome O. Bradshawize Cookson’s var. (O. crispum X C. Neetzliana), 
and the pollen was derived from Odontoglossum spectabile (crispum X 
Harryanum). It will thus appear that both parents are half derived from 
O. crispum, and the seedling—the only one that has yet flowered—has 
Fig. 17. ODONTIODA LATONA VAR. PEARL. 
almost reverted to that species so far as colour is concerned, though ir 
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shape the influence of the seed bearer is more apparent, as a glance at the 
figure given at page 113 of our seventeenth volume will show. This is 
especially apparent in the shape and details of the column and lip, though 
the latter is somewhat broadened, perhaps by the influence of O. 
Harryanum, which is otherwise difficult to trace. A living flower was also 
sent. The ground colour is white, with a tinge of yellow on the lip, and 
there are two or three small light brown blotches at the base of the sepals, 
a single oblong blotch at the base of the petals, and several similar blotches 
