1 €e) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X CRISPO-HALLIIL. 
Ir is with much pleasure that we are able to record the flowering of 
another artificially raised Odontoglossum. It is a seedling between O. 
Hallii @ and O.crispum Cooksoni g , raised in the collection of Norman C. 
Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, W ylam-on-Tyne, by Mr. Murray. It was exhibited 
at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on November 24th last, and 
received a First-class Certificate. It is quite intermediate between the two 
parents in general character. In shape it is comparable with O. Halli, 
with rather broader segments; and the colour yellowish white, deeper 
yellow on the lip, with numerous dark crimson-brown blotches and spots. 
The crest is most like that of O. Hallii, but the lip is less fimbriate than in 
that species. Thus it will appear that there is the same unmistakable 
combination of the characters of the parent species as is seen in the 
humerous natural hybrids which have appeared in this genus, but it is of 
course not comparable with any of them, as the two parents do not grow 
together in a wild state. The plant at present is weak, having two bulbs 
and a three-flowered raceme, but when it reaches maturity it will be of great 
beauty. It is the second hybrid artificially raised from O. crispum, the 
earlier one being the form of O. x Denisonix (Wilckeanum) known as 
O. X Leroyanum, of which an account has already been given (supra, I., 
PP- 204-205, 291-292). Indeed, the present hybrid resembles a form of 
O. X Denisonia# more nearly than any other, as might be expected from 
the general resemblance between O. Hallii and O. luteopurpureum. 
CALANTHE X ALBATA. 
This is a most interesting hybrid, raised in the establishment of Messrs. 
F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, between Calanthe veratrifolia @ and C. X 
Cooksoni ¢—the latter belonging to the C. vestita group, and we believe 
a white form of CC: X Veitch: Various unsuccessful attempts had 
previously been made to cross the evergreen and deciduous sections 
together, and Messrs. Veitch in 1890 remarked (Man. Orch., VI., p. 61) :— 
‘While the species of the Vestitz group cross freely with each other, and 
with the mules resulting from such crosses, and while, so far as the 
experiments have been carried, the cultivated species of the Veratrifoliz 
will also cross with each other, no species or mule belonging to one of the 
sections can be induced to cross with any species or mule of the other.” 
Mr. Maynard also informs us that he had frequently made similar 
experiments without any result, so that the present success is the more 
noteworthy. The plant was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
meeting on November roth last, and attracted a good deal of attention, 
though it had evidently not yet reached its full development. In the 
