Nov-Dec, 1918.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 233 
oe ODONTOGLOSSUM EXIMIUM LA PAPILLON. ie 
HE annexed figure represents the brilliant Odontoglossum eximium La 
Papillon, for which Messrs. J. & A. McBean received a First-class 
Certificate at the R.H.S. meeting held on October 22nd last, as recorded at 
page 249. It is a flower of model shape, being nearly circular in outline, 
with remarkably broad, overlapping segments of great substance, quite 
representing the florist’s ideal. Its parents are O. armainvillierense X 
ttispum, the former being from O. Pescatorei X crispum, and thus the latter 
is twice represented. in it, though the influence of O. Pescatorei is well 
shown in the shape of the lip, and in the broad, blunt sepals and petals. It 
Fig. 26. OponToGLOSSUM EXIMIUM LA PaPILLon. 
May, indeed, be a hybrid of more complex parentage, for O. crispum Franz 
*Sereel, which is presumably concerned in the ancestry, is suspected to be 
of hybrid origin, O. luteopurpureum being in some way concerned in the 
tentage, Whatever the origin, it is a brilliant acquisition, and the broad 
ne of nearly confluent claret-purple blotches with a broad white margin, 
Ttshed With pale rose, makes an effective contrast, and the lip is very 
attractive, being subpandurate with a few small blotches in front of the 
ey “rest, and a few small markings behind. it may be added that O. 
“spum Franz Masereel is also a F.-c. C. variety, whose history and a 
f 
ste have already been given (O.R., vi. p- 113). 
