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what like. Hebrew characters—whence the. name. The inflorescence is 
often branched, as in O. gloriosum. The varieties lineoligerum and 
aspersum subsequently appeared. . 
O. x deltoglossum appeared in 1881, with Messrs. James Veitch. and 
Sons, of Chelsea. The sepals and petals are sulphur, with brown blotches 
and smears, and a lip more deltoid than usual—whence the name. 
O. x Leeanum appeared in 1882, in the collection of W. Lee, Esq,, of 
Downside, Leatherhead. It has a deep yellow ground, densely spotted 
with reddish brown, the lip having a very large red-brown blotch in front of 
the crest. vee : 
O. xX Scottii appeared in 1883, in the collection of G. F. Wilson, Esq., 
Heatherbank, Weybridge Heath, and is characterised by its cream-yellow 
flowers, heavily spotted and barred with light brown. . | 
O. x Brassia appeared in 1885, with Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. 
Albans, and is characterised by its élongated and narrow sulphur-coloured 
sepals and petals, with but few spots. - 
_.: Of the other forms -cited at the foot of this article, as derived from the 
samé parentage, O. x Josephine and O, x Schlesingerianum conform most 
_ to the: Andersonianum type; QO. x Bleichroederianum, O. x Fitchianum, 
O. x Measuresianum, O. x Ortgiesianum, O. x Pollettianum, and .0..x 
Warocqueanum, to the Ruckerianum type ; while O. x Edithize approaches 
O. x baphicanthum, having a yellow ground, suffused and spotted like some 
forms of O. x Ruckerianum. SG feast: 
-. Hybrids are notoriously polymorphic, but the wide range of variation 
seen in the series of hybrids derived from O. crispum and O. gloriosum is 
indeed remarkable. The parents are themselves very variable, especially 
the former, but this only partially explains the facts. ~The real explanation 
is that the characters of the parent species are not always equally blended 
in the offspring, and have a tendency to separate themselves, those from 
one parent appearing most strongly in one part, and from the other parent 
in another. Hybrids are generally spoken of as intermediate between ell 
parents, which is so far correct, but. must be understood in the sense just 
mentioned. Sometimes the blending is very partial, as when the characters 
of one parent preponderate in the foliage, and of the other in the flower, and 
generally speaking the term intermediate must be understood in the sense 
that the hybrid presents a combination of characters derived from its two 
parents. It is this unequal fusion of the essential elements of the parent 
species which is the cause of the wide, range of variation seen in S0 cgi 
hybrids, and the more diverse are the parents the greater the possibilities of 
variation’ in the offspring. When a more complete fusion takes place, 
more perfect blending of the parent characters, and less variation, is seen- 
_ In the present hybrid every shade of ground colour is seen between. og 
yellow of O. gloriosum and the white of O. crispum, both with and without 
