THE ORCHID REVIEW. 57 



ODONTOGLOSSUM x ROLFEiE. 



Odontoglossum X Rolfe.e is a beautiful hybrid from O. Pescatorei 5 

 and O. Harryanum <? , which was raised by M. Ch. Vuylsteke, Loochristi, 

 Ghent, and flowered for the first time in August, 1898, when it was named 

 by the raiser, and described in these pages (vi., p. 270). Several seedlings 

 have now flowered, and have exhibited the usual amount of variation, some 

 of them being very heavily marked with purple, and showing much of the 

 influence of O. Harryanum, while others are lighter and show more of the 

 Pescatorei character. The one figured is of the latter class, and is repro- 

 duced from a photograph taken by Mr. H. J. Chapman, of Camberwell 





and kindly forwarded to us. The original form has the sepals and petals 

 prettily and regularly spotted with purple, and a suffusion of a lighter shade 

 near the apex, while the basal half of the lip is also regularly spotted with 

 purple, and the rest white, as may be seen by the figure in the Didionnaivc 

 Icongraphique des Orchidces. Several varieties have since been named. At 

 the Temple Show in 1900 M. Vuylsteke exhibited varieties optimum and 

 ardentissimum, the former receiving a First-class Certificate and the latter 

 an Award of Merit, and a few weeks later a First-class Certificate was given 

 to the Walton Grange variety. In the following December the' variety 

 meleagris received a similar award, as did also var. Hercules at Manchester 



