June, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 185 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ELFRIDA. 
THE annexed figure represents a striking and beautiful Odontoglossum 
raised in the collection of Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam, from 
O. Uroskinneri X armainvillierense (ardentissimum), and is reproduced 
from a photograph kindly sent by Mr. H. J. Chapman. The flower, as 
will be seen, is of excellent shape, the sepals.and petals being very broad 
and round, and the lip strongly pandurate, with a well-expanded front lobe. 
The markings are also very regular. Mr. Chapman remarks: “I think it 
is a lovely thing, the ice-white ground forming a striking contrast to the 
violet-purple markings. The characters of both parents can be very clearly 
traced. The hybrids of O. Uroskinneri are not yet a very numerous class, 
but the one with which it is most comparable is O. Goodsonii (O.R., xvii. 
Fig. 35. ODONTOGLOSSUM ELFRIDA. 
Pp. 280), of which O. Pescatorei Charlesworthii was the second parent, and 
which has much more purple blotching in the flower. This received a 
First-class Certificate fram the R.H.S. in August, 1909. The difference in 
the present one arises from the addition of O. crispum in the ancestry. 
The other Uroskinneri hybrids of which we have records are O. Eleanor 
from O. cirrhosum: O. Groganiz, from O. Edwardii; O. Marie, from O. 
Charlesworthii : O. Stamfordianum, from O. bictoniense album; Odontioda 
Euterpe, from Cochlioda Neetzliana; O. Seymouriz, from C. vulcanica, 
and O. Irene, from Odontioda Charlesworthii. Odontoglossum Groganiz 
has a very interesting history, and some remarks on O. Uroskinueri as a 
parent appeared at p. 133 of our last volume. 
