THE ORCHID REVIEW. 361 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x DENISONZ CHESTERTONI. 
THE annexed figure represents a most beautiful Odontoglossum, and one 
whose history has been sadly confused, as will be seen from the following 
note. It appeared in an importation of O. crispum sent by the late Mr. J. 
C. Chesterton to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, and flowered in 1876, being 
exhibited at a meeting of the R.H.S. on March 15th, as Odontoglossum 
Chestertoni, and received a First-class Certificate. It was briefly recorded 
as a distinct form, with creamy white flowers bearing large brown spots 
(Gard. Chron., 1876, v. 374). In 1885, a coloured figure of what purported 
to be the same thing appeared in the Orchidophile (1885, p. 133, fig. 8), 
though, as will presently be seen, it is something very different. Two years. 
later the original plant appeared as O. crispum Chestertoni, Rchb. f. 
Fic. 18. OponToGLossuM X DENISON# CHESTERTONI. 
(Veitch Man. Orch., i. p. 26), with the note that it is “now in the collection 
of Baron Schrader.” It is thus described :—“ Sepals and petals broad, the 
sepals white with two large and one small reddish brown transverse blotch ; 
the petals also white with two to five reddish brown spots: the lip reddish 
brown with a broad reddish white margin.” The flower here figured was 
taken from that very plant, and was photographed by Mr. G. I’Anson, of 
Bush Hill Park, who kindly forwarded the copy here reproduced. cae x 
second Catalogue of the Fernside Collection is a coloured figure of 0. 
Chestertoni Lee's grand variety ” (p. 8, n- 124, t- 4, fig. 143), which is again 
very different. This confusion was briefly alluded to in these pages some 
time ago (ante, v. pp. 73-75), but the publication of the present figure should 
