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and Harryanum, adding: ‘‘ This handsome Odontoglossum was described 
by me some few months ago as a doubtful hybrid between O. Lindleyanum 
and O. luteo-purpureum. At that time I had only a single dried flower, a 
pen and ink sketch, a couple of old pseudobulbs, and a few notes, to guide 
me, but on seeing Mr. Moon’s beautiful painting, here reproduced, I felt 
obliged to give up the idea of its hybrid origin and to consider it a new and 
distinct species. Its real affinity still seems rather doubtful. If one looks 
at the elongate column, the stalk, and crest of the lip, and the shape of the 
sepals and petals, it appears to be an ally of O. Lindleyanum, but on 
turning to the shape of the lip, and, to some extent, the colour, one sees a 
certain resemblance to another Odontoglossum. Perhaps in the future we 
may find out more about it.” 
All these elements of uncertainty are now removed, for on September 
11th a plant was exhibited by De Barri Crawshay, Esq., at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s meeting at the Drill Hall, which had been raised 
artificially by crossing O. Lindleyanum with the pollen of O. Harryanum. 
Mr. Crawshay writes that he made the cross on September 12th, 1894, the 
seed was sown on August tst of the following year, and now the plant has 
produced a spike of eight flowers, of which the first three blooms opened on 
August 24th. The plant has three bulbs and is growing strongly. The 
flower sent has all the essential characters of the wild plant, but the limb of 
the lip is broader and nearly truncate, measuring 16 lines long by over II 
lines broad at the base and 8 lines near the apex; the ground colour is also 
wholly yellow, with no trace of white, the broad blotch is close up to the 
crest, without a yellow interval, and there are many small spots at the sides 
on the basal half. The sepals and petals are also proportionately broader 
and less acuminate. Owing to these marked differences the plant was 
exhibited under the name of O. X Wattianum Crawshayanum. 
Mr. Crawshay must be congratulated on having solved a very interesting 
scientific problem, as well as of raising a very handsome garden plant, and 
I hope that he will attempt to demonstrate the origin of other natural 
hybrid Odontoglossums. 
I may add that I have known of the existence of this seedling for 4 
considerable time, and it has been generally agreed that when it flowered 
it would prove to be the mysterious O. xX Wattianum. Had it been 
known from the outset that O. x Wattianum came from the unknown 
district of O. Harryanum, of which an importation was received at about 
the same time, there can be little doubt that its origin would have been 
guessed from the first. Soon after the Reichenbachia figure appeared, I waS 
told in confidence by another collector that O. Harryanum and O- . 
sceptrum grew together in the Antioquia district, and that O. xX Wattianum 
came home with them, and, he had no doubt, was a natural hybrid between — “ 
