122 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x WENDLANDIANUM. 
A PLANT of the handsome Odontoglossum X Wendlandianum has 
appeared in the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, 
and Mr. Stevens suggests that it may be a hybrid from O. Pescatorei. 
Both the previous records pointed to some form of O. crispum as one of 
the parents, and the purple suffusion, I thought, must have come from that 
species. It is, however, very pronounced also in some forms of O. Pescatorei, 
and as the lip of the present example is decidedly pandurate in shape, the 
question arises whether, after all, the latter may not have been one parent. 
The other is probably O. crinitum, as pointed out last year (ante, vii., p. 
168), for the crest is broken up into numerous filaments, and other details 
are in agreement. But we do not know precisely where the latter comes 
from, and it illustrates very clearly the difficulty of ascertaining the origin 
of some of these curious natural hybrids. The flowers are larger than in 
O. crinitum, rather crowded, the acuminate sepals and petals suffused with 
rose purple, and bearing numerous minute dots. The lip is light yellow, 
with few spots, and the column-wings slightly cirrhate in front, and nearly 
entire behind. I am not sure if the history of the plant can be traced, but 
it would be very interesting to clear up its origin. 
R. iA. RB, 
LAELIA COWANI AND ITS ALLIES. 
THE note on Lelia Cowani, at page 78, has, fortunately, brought out some 
new facts respecting it. It is flowering finely in the collection of Joseph 
Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno, together with L. flava and L. 
harpophylla, and Mr. Broome accordingly sends spikes of each, and points 
out that the lip of L. Cowani has'a recurved front lobe, in this respect re- 
sembling L. harpophylla. Continuing the comparison with living flowers, 
I find several other intermediate characters, which suggests the possibility of 
L. Cowani being a hybrid between the other two. This led me to look into 
the matter further, and the results are certainly interesting. The plants 
were sold about the end of 1898, and on looking up the Catalogue, I find it 
stated :—* The plants look like a hybrid between L. harpophylla and L-. 
cinnabarina, the stems and leaves resemble the former, and the enlarge 
ments at the base of the stems the latter. The flowers are of 4 
bright golden yellow, and are produced on fine spikes of from five t? 
twenty-five on each.” If L. flava be substituted for L. cinnabarina, there 
is some plausibility in the suggestion, and it would be interesting to knoW 
how far the species Stow together. In February, 1890, Messrs. Seeger and 
Tropp, of East Dulwich, sent to Kew a flower which they thought must be 
