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not given), that the plant was a hybrid, and a summary of his remarks will 
be interesting. The suggestion was, ‘“‘the Odontoglot in question is 
evidently a cross .between O. Pescatorei and O. crispum,’ but this, he 
remarked, for various reasons, cannot be. For one reason the home of O. 
Pescatorei is in the north-eastern parts of Columbia, while O. crispum 
Lehmannii i3 a native of the southern parts of this country and the 
Fig. 22. ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM WITH BRANCHED SPIKES. 
northern districts of Ecuador, the two plants being separated from each 
other by the wide range of over 300 miles—an occurrence quite unknown 
among the Odontoglossa. Although the colour of the flowers of O. crispum 
Lehmannii resembles that of O. crispum, 1 am of opinion that the 
Odontoglot in question is not a variety at all, but, on the contrary, a good 
species. Of this I felt sure when I first met with it in 1878, and after 
having made detailed studies of the entire plant in its natural habitat in 
