48 THE ORCHID REVIEW. FEBRUARY, 1907. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x BEAUTE-CELESTE. 
WE have received from M. Ch. Vuylsteke a photograph of the beautiful 
Odontoglossum described at page 26 under the provisional name of O. X 
armainvillierense, together witha note as to its origin. The photograph is 
here reproduced natural size. It has received the name of O. X Beaute- 
Celeste. M. Vuylsteke writes :—‘ I think this Odontoglossum has nothing 
to do with O. X armainvillierense, because it has not the same parentage. 
It comes from a crossing of a fine large O. crispum, the old Pacho type, 
and a fine O. X ardentissimum. The plant of which I sent you the flower 
Fig. 6. ODONTOGLOssuM X BEAUTE-CELESTE. 
is only three and a half years old, and is a small plant with two bulbs. In 
the same batch of seedlings I have also had some fine red spotted varieties, 
but the greater part are much inferior to their parents.” The above came 
after the flower, and consequently too late for our last issue, but it explains 
the influence of O. Fescatorei to which we alluded, though it now appears 
that it is a secondary hybrid, in which O. Pescatorei is only represented to 
the amount of one-fourth. We need not repeat the description, but we 
think the illustration justifies M. Vuylsteke’s remark that it is he best in 
form which he has ever seen. It may be added that the original O. X 
armainvillierense, according to the record, is half crispum and half 
