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HE very striking Odontoglossum here figured is a hybrid from O. 
oakwoodiense X armainvillierense, which was exhibited at the R.H.S. 
meeting held on April 7th last by Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., 
Westonbirt: (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), and received a First-class Certificate 
under the name of Odontoglossum Mogul. The flower is of good shape, 
and the ground colour of the clearest white, forming a broad band round 
the large solid claret-purple blotch which adorns each segment and sets the 
flowers off to great advantage. The retals and lip are very prettily 
Fig. 19. ODONTOGLOSSUM SCOTTIANUM VAR. MOGUL. 
fringed, and altogether the plant is a very charming acquisition. It appears 
to be a form of O. Scottianum, this having been derived from the same 
cross. ©. oakwoodiense is supposed to be either a form of O. Wilckeanum 
or some other natural hybrid in which O. luteopurpureum Is represented, 
and this, when crossed by Messrs. Charlesworth with a finely-blotched O. 
armainvillierense, produced a batch of seedlings showing the most 
extraordinary variation. Some resembled O. armainvillierense, others were 
More like a large plain O. Pescatorei, while some intermediate forms had 
the blotching inclining towards the brown of O. luteopurpureum. One was: 
