go THE ORCHID REVIEW. (MARCH, 1907. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
OpontToniA X Etwoopi.—Another very interesting Odontonia has 
appeared, being exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on February 12th 
_last by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford. The parents are 
Odontoglossum cirrhosum ? and Miltonia Roezlii g¢. In its vegetative 
characters it most resembles the Miltonia parent, also in having a short 
inflorescence with few flowers—there were two on this occasion—but this 
character may not be so pronounced when the plant becomes stronger. The 
colour of the flower is white, with a few purple spots on the lip. The 
sepals and petals are narrow and acuminate, and the lip rather broader and 
acute, and thus the shape most resembles the Odontoglossum parent. We 
hope to see this interesting hybrid again when it becomes stronger. 
EPICATTLEYA X BALARUCENSIS.—The phrase ‘ Cattleya labiata 
reduced to half its size’? would almost describe the flower of this curious 
plant, which we have received from M. F. Denis, Balaruc les Bains, 
Herault, France. M. Denis states that it was derived from Cattleya 
labiata crossed with the rare Epidendrum eburneum (Bot. Mag. t. 5643)-. 
The seed was sown seven years ago, and one of the seedlings is now 
producing its first scape of two flowers. It is said that most of the pseudo- 
bulbs have two leaves, but there are other unflowered seedlings in which 
most of the bulbs have only a single leaf. Part of the plant is also sent, 
showirg three small pseudobuls, but the one that has flowered is much 
stronger. The colour and shape are almost those of the Cattleya parent. 
It is curious that the influence of the Epidendrum parent should not be 
apparent in the flower, and we should like to know if other seedlings differ 
in this respect. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM X AURIFERUM.—This is a very distinct and pretty 
hybrid which was exhibited by Messrs. Linden, Brussels, at the R.H.S- 
meeting held on February 12th. It is said to be from O. X Hallii-xanthum 
2 and O.crispum ¢, and shows most of the influence of the seed parent, 
the ground colour being bright canary yellow with a few largish deep brown 
blotches on the sepals, and smaller more numerous ones on the petals- 
The shape is good, and the petals distinctly toothed, while the lip 1s 
distinctly pandurate, with fringed margin, and a few small brown blotches 
in front of the crest, and some similar dots on the basal margin. 
C@LOGYNE X COLMANII MAGDEBURGENSIs.—It is interesting to find 
that Coelogyne X Colmanii has been raised in another collection. M. Paul 
Wolter, Magdeburg- Wilhelmstadt, Germany, writes:—‘‘I have in flowef 
the first plant of a hybrid Ceelogyne—C. speciosa x C. cristata alba, quite 
the same cross as published in the Gard. Chron. a fortnight ago (p. 108, 
g- 48) as C. x Colmanii. Perhaps it will be interesting for you to se 
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