288 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, 1916. 
ee rN ODONTONIA ELWOODII. Eee 
N an earlier issue (pp. 168, 169) we figured examples of the hybrid genus 
Odontonia, namely, O. Lairessez and O. Magali-Sander var. xanthotes, 
showing the preponderating influence of Miltonia Warscewiczii. The 
present figure shows the very different O. Elwoodii, the effect of crossing 
Odontoglossum cirrhosum with M. Reezlii alba. It was raised by Messrs. 
Fig. 50. OpontoniaA ELwoopil. 
Charlesworth & Co., and flowered for the first time in February, 1907. In 
the long acuminate sepals it recalls the character of the seed parent, 
whence the spotting was derived, while the lip shows rather more of the 
Miltonia character. The colour ot the flower is white with purple spots. 
A good many other Odontonias have since appeared, and the finest of the 
