106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
or C. X Meirax or other barbatum X venustum hybrid in place of C. x 
calophyllum. 
Query: Should the products of these various crosses be considered 
synonymous with C. X Lachesis, varieties of it, or be entitled to entirely 
new names ? : REGINALD YOUNG. 
[A very curious question is raised in the above note, which it is not easy 
to answer absolutely. It has previously been pointed out that certain 
definite results might be obtained in different ways, as in the cases above 
cited, and bearing in mind the well-known variability of hybrids, especially 
of secondary hybrids, it seems quite probable that certain seedlings of the 
hypothetical crosses a or b might be more like C. x Lachesis than like 
other seedlings out of the self-same capsule; and it is even possible that 
they might be so identical as to be indistinguishable from it, and in the 
latter case, at all events, a separate name would be meaningless, even in a 
florist’s sense. We are inclined to think many secondary hybrids are not 
worth naming, and if only those which showed some distinct improvement 
on their predecessors were named and recorded these plants might be treated 
in the same way as florist’s flowers, which they undoubtedly are. In the 
case of crosses between distinct species—primary hybrids—we think every 
distinct cross should be recorded, whether an improvement or not, and all 
subsequent seedlings should come under the original name, a distinct varietal 
name being added where such a course seems desirable. _ If this course were 
consistently followed we think the records might be kept free from 
much confusion.—Ep.] 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM x ANDERSONIANUM BRADSHAWI. 
Tuis striking form was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society® 
meeting on March ioth last, by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., and has since 
passed into the collection of J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate. x 
is most allied to the one known as O. x hebrai lineoligerum, but differs 
egments 
in having the ground colour entirely bright yellow, and all the si 
narrower and much acuminate, the lip being 1} inches long, and the sé 
two inches. The spots on the lower halves of the sepals and petals ae 
humerous, red-brown, and somewhat elongated or line-like, as in the form 
above named. It flowered out of a batch of Odontoglossum crispum, bs 
is one of the numerous hybrids between that species and O- are 
though the characters of the former are less apparent than usu 
In shape it bears a remarkable resemblance to O. cirrhosum, W" 
however, is a native of Ecuador, far away from where O- crispu™ 
grows. Itis a very pretty variety. ALR 
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