THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



At the recent Temple Show a remarkably handsome Odontoglossum w 

 exhibited by Mr. Ch. Vuylsteke, of Loochristi, Ghent, under the nan 

 of O. X ardentissimum, to which a First-class Certificate was given, 



recorded at p. 175. Most of the papers recorded it as O. crispum ardent- 

 issimum, but whether this was a mistake or a change of name by the 

 Orchid Committee is not apparent. On examining it we were immediately 

 struck with the combination of characters of O. Pescatorei and O. crispum 

 that it presented, and concluded that it had been raised by crossing the 

 former with a heavily spotted form of the latter. There were three other 

 handsome spotted forms in the collection, labelled O. X concinnum, O. X 



