8 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1913. 
VARIATION OF ODONTOGLOSSUM PERCULTUM. 
TurouGH the kindness of Mr. H. J. Chapman, gardener to Mrs. Norman 
Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam, we are able to illustrate a remarkable group of 
eleven very diverse forms of Odontoglossum purcultum (figs. 1-6, 9-13),* 
raised from the same seed pod, together with two of the original grand- 
parents, O. crispum Franz Masereel (fig. 7), and O. Pescatorei (fig. 8). 
The seed parent was O. Rolfeze Oakwood var. (Pescatorei x Harryanum), 
Fig. 1—6, g—13. ODONTOGLOSSUM PERCULTUM. 
Fig. 7. O. cRISPUM FRANZ MASEREEL. Fig. 8. O. PESCATOREI. 
a large and handsome form, heavily blotched with ¢ark purple, which 
received an Award of Merit from the R.H.S. in April, 1902 (O.R., x. p. 148). 
The pollen parent was.O. armainvillierense Cooksoniz (Pescatorei x 
* For convenience of reference we have numbered the flowers, beginning with the one 
on the left, and then taking the vertical rows successively from top to bottom; the 
numbers, however, have not been added to the block. 
