ke) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x WILCKEANUM FLAVEOLUM. 
A VERY pretty Odontoglossum is figured at t. 43 of the Orchid A lbum under 
the name of O.crispum flaveolum, Rchb. f. A very similar form has 
appeared in the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, 
but a comparison with the numerous forms of O. X Wilckeanum shows 
so many points of resemblance as to leave little doubt that it also belongs 
to this polymorphic hybrid. The general resemblance to O. crispum, and 
the total absence of spots, has probably led to its being considered a yellow 
form of that species, but the shape of the lip, the lateral teeth of the crest; 
the more toothed column wings, as well as the shape and ground colour of 
the sepals and petals, all show an approach to O. luteopurpureum. Indeed, 
it is nearer to O. X Wilckeanum sulphureum, Rchb. f., than to O. crispum, 
and I suspect that all the so-called yellow forms of O. crispum are of 
hybrid origin. 
RA 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
EPIDENDRUM X BERKELEYI. 
AT page 321 of Hansen’s Orchid Hybrids the following note occurs :— 
‘ Epidendrum X ? (Stamfordianum ? X O’Brienianum). Under raising 
with Berkeley, Southampton, 1895. In lit. May 5, ‘96... The plant has 
now flowered, and Mr. J. Godfrey, Orchid grower to the late General 
Berkeley, has now sent the infloresence and a leaf, together with the 
following additional information :—‘‘ In its habit of growth it is much like 
E. X O'Brienianum, but dwarfer and stouter, the growth from which this 
raceme was cut being about a foot high, and the leaf is also thicker. The 
seed was sown in 1895; several germinated, but only this one made any 
progress. If you think it distinct from Messrs. Veitch’s hybrid, E. X 
radicanti-Stamfordianum, I should like you to call it after my late master, 
General Berkeley.” The hybrids certainly bear a good deal of resemblance 
to each other, owing to their common descent from E. Stamfordianum, 
but they are not identical, the much darker colour of the present one 
being particularly noticeable, and this, of course, is due to the pollen 
parent being half evectum and half radicans, instead of wholly the latter, 
and we are quite justified in adopting the above name. The flowers 
combine the characters of the two parents, having the dark purple-red 
colour almost of the pollen parent, with the shape of lip of the seed bearer, 
while in other respects they are fairly intermediate. The raceme at 
present bears about ten flowers, but the plant has obviously not yet 
reached its normal development, being scarcely over three years old. Kt 
will be interesting to see the future development of the plant, for E. X 
