AucustT, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 233 
ODONTOGLOSSUM OLYMPIA. 
Tuts handsome Odontoglossum was exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth 
& Co., Haywards Heath, at the recent R.H.5. Show at Olympia, and re- 
ceived an Award of Merit. Its parentage is unknown, but we suspect that it 
isastray seedling from some 
batch of known parentage, 
and that thus its identity 
has been lost. As will be 
seen from the figure, the 
flowers are of excellent 
shape, and very copiously 
blotched, the arrangement 
of the blotches on the petals 
differing somewhat in dif- 
ferent flowers. O.crispum 
is largely represented, as is 
evident from the shape of 
the flowers, the white 
ground colour, and the red- 
brown blotches, but without 
a living flower it is difficult 
to give a guess at the other 
ODONTOGLOSSUM OLYMPIA. 
parent, the species noW 
being so completely mixed. 
There is a resemblance to 
O. Rolfez in the shape of 
the flower and the arrange- 
ment of the markings, but 
we cannot see the details of 
the column wings and 
crest, and will only suggest 
that it may be a form of 
O. Lambeauianum or some- 
thing derived from it. We 
should say that the influence 
of both O. Pescatorei and O. Harryanum can be traced. The spike is 
very compact, and whatever its origin it is a hybrid of great beauty. 
Of course, the same combination of species could be made by a different 
method of crossing, but in slightly different proportions, for example, O- 
spectabile x Pescatorei, or O. Harryanum x armainvillierense. 
For the loan of the block we are indebted to the Journal of Horticulture. 
Fig. 26. 
