AUGUST, £907.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 241 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x ARMAINVILLIERENSE VAR. 
ROBSON£. 
At the last Temple Show a very handsome Odontoglossum was exhibited 
by Mr. John Robson, Altrincham, under the name of O. X ardentissimum 
var. Robsonz, to which a First-class Certificate was awarded, as recorded 
at page 179. It afterwards passed into the collection of A. Warburton, 
Esq., Vine House, Haslingden, and received a similar award from the 
Manchester Orchid Society on June 13th. A flower and photograp 
kindly sent by Mr. Warburton, and the latter we now reproduce natural 
size, though, in conformity with the note published at page 155, we feel 
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Fig. 28.—OpoONTOGLOSSUM X ARMAINVILLIERENSE VAR. ROBSON. 
bound to adopt the name of O. X armainvillierense for the hybrids between 
O. crispum and nobile (Pescatorei), it being over three years earlier than 
O. X ardentissimum, which further appeared simultaneously with O. xX 
concinnum, O. x dulce, and O. X venificum, all four being forms of the 
same hybrid, and indeed out of the same seed pod. We do not know the 
early history of the superb variety now figured, but we consider it one of the 
most attractive which has yet appeared, the shape being excellent, and the 
broad white margin to the segments setting off the large purple blotches 
to great advantage. Mr. Warburton very well describes the colour as “a 
lovely shade of plum purple.” The character of the flower is so well shown 
in the figure that we need only add that in the shape of the segments, the 
