240 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
MASDEVALLIA X PLUTO. 
ANOTHER handsome hybrid Masdevallia has been received from Captain 
Hincks, Richmond, Yorks. It was obtained by crossing M. xX Gairiana 
with the pollen of M. Harryana, and thus has three species in its 
composition, M. X Gairiana being descended from M. Veitchiana 2 and 
M. Davisii ¢. It is most like the seed-parent in shape and size, and the 
colour is deep-orange in the throat and on the outer halves of the lateral 
sepals, but intense rich crimson elsewhere, with a good number of those 
beautiful iridescent violent hairs so characteristic of M. Veitchiana. The 
petals are white, and the lip violet-purple, with a darker tubercle at the 
apex, each being half as long as the perianth tube. It is richer in colour 
than M. X Chelsoni, to which it bears a certain resemblance, and should 
develop into a very handsome thing. 
ODONTOGLOssuM X CooKSONI VAR. CRAWSHAYANUM. 
Another artificially raised Odontoglossum has reached the flowering 
stage, and was exhibited by De Barri Crawshay, Esq., at the Hybridisation 
Conference under the above name. A flower has now been sent, together 
with a note of its origin. The cross was made in June, 1894, the 
seed was sown in September of the following year, and the seedling was 
detected in the following March. It has now produced a spike of eight 
flowers, which began to expand at the end of June, five years after the 
cross was made, and less than four after the seed was sown. It ag 
very different from Mr. Cookson’s original cross, obtained from O. Halln 
x O. crispum Cooksoni, and provisionally named O. X_ crispo-Hallii 
(O.R., v., p. 10), having a distinct tinge of lilac in the sepals and petals, 
especially when young, with rather small, light-brown blotches. In other 
respects it is fairly intermediate between the two parents. Mr. Crawshay 
must be congratulated on his initial success, and as he has other seedlings 
coming on, and plenty of capsules, we hope to have many more from him 
to record. And we hope that among other things he will not forget to 
demonstrate by experiment what some of the much discussed secondary 
hybrid Odontoglossums are like. 
L&LIO-CATTLEYA X ISABELLA. 
d, believed to have originated from Lzlia purpurata 
eya Schreedere, from the collection of John Leemann, 
House, Heaton Mersey, presumably raised by M. ee 
It is intermediate in shape, and the colour white tinged with pink, 
with some purple pencilling and a suffusion of rosy-purple round the cream- 
yellow disc.—O’Brien in Gard. Chron., July 29, p. 82. 
A charming hybri 
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