THE ORCHID REVIEW. 113 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM GOLDEN QUEEN. 
THE accompanying illustration represents the beautiful Odontoglossum 
crispum Golden Queen, from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton 
Grange, Stone, Staffs., to which an Award of Merit was given by the Royal 
Horticultural Society on November 14th last, and which caused the dis- 
cussion detailed at page 73. Mr. Crawshay seems to be of the opinion that 
this plant is a hybrid, and if not actually a form of O. X Wilckeanum, at 
least one which owes its characters partly to the influence of O. luteo- 
purpureum, derived by secondary crossing. In forming this opinion he was 
evidently influenced by the colour, and perhaps to some extent also by the 
Fig. 6. ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM GOLDEN QUEEN. 
spots. I, too, at the first glance thought it to be a form of O. X Wilckeanum, 
but gave up the idea on failing to find any of the characters of O. luteo- 
purpureum in the shape of the column wings and lip, with its characteristic 
crest. How far this is the case can be seen in the figure, which is a faithful 
record, as revealed by the camera, though the base of the crest, being in the 
shade of the column, does not come out so clearly as the front. The shape 
of the flower generally is that of O. crispum, and the colour bright golden 
yellow with red-brown spots, the latter being of a shade which might be 
given by O. c. Stevensii on a yellow ground. It might possibly be suggested 
that this is an example of a hybrid which has taken the shape of one parent, 
