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no other evidence forthcoming. But it is now clear that O. x Smeeanum— 
is a form of the present hybrid, with a white ground and deep red-brown 
blotches. O. x Marriottianum is an Ecuadorean hybrid, and though no 4 
from description only is evidently different. : 
O. x Leroyanum is a most interesting plant, being the first nybell 
Odontoglossum raised artificially, or at all events the first that reached the — 
flowering stage. It was raised- by M. Leroy, in the collection of Baron 
Edmond de Rothschild, of Armainvilliers, near Paris, from O. crispum 3 and 
O. luteopurpureum gf. It flowered in May, 1890, when five and a half years 
old. _ The ground colour of the flowers is white, the blotches on the sepals 
and petals reddish purple, very large, and nearly confluent. That it proves 
the parentage of the series of hybrids we are now considering is certain; it 
has all the essential characteristics, though it may not be absolutely identical 
with any of them in a florist’s sense. But scarcely any two are ever —_ 
alike. 
- O. x Claesianum appeared with Messrs. Linden, of Brussels, in +838 
and has broad — and petals, heavily blotched with red-brown on a white — 
ground. ; 
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OQ. x Bergmani also apoavels in 1891, in the collection under the charge 
of M. F. Bergman, at Ferriéres-en-Brie, near Paris. It has much of © 
the O. luteopurpureum shape, but a white ground, blotched with cinnamon- 
brown. a 
With respect to the acknowledged varieties of O. x Wilckeanum not ; 
mentioned above, we have only space to say a few words. The variety 
albens has a white ground with chestnut-brown spots, and is nearest O. 
crispum in shape. O. x W. elegans has longer and narrower segments, of — 
primrose colour, with a very few spots, which are chiefly confined to the @ 
sepals. Godefroy is very heavily blotched with violet- -purple.on a light — 
ground. The one called pallens has the luteopurpureum shape, toothed — 
petals, and a whitish ground with large brown blotches. Rothschildianum — 
is a superb form with the crispum shape, a light yellow ground and large — 
red-brown blotches. The variety sulphureum has primrose, almost um 
spotted flowers of intermediate shape. Lastly, the one called varians 
chiefly differs from the original form in having a white ground. re 
In the Fernside Catalogues mentioned at the head of this article, several — 
forms of the present hybrid occur under other names, which belong here. 
In the 1891 Catalogue we may note :— 
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“ O. crispum flaveolum,” Pp. 19, n. 498, t. 1, fig. 13.—This is very near O. X W ilckeanum 
elegans and O. x W. sulphureum, having tetetst segments of primrose colour with a 
ssn on the sepals only, and the chevaibanielc crest. 
O. Alexandre bickleyense,” p. 6, n. 99, t. 5, fig. 101 (also “O. x bickleyense,” P- 18, 
n. i -—A fine form of O. x Wilckeanum with cinnamon-brown spots on a nearly white 
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Without name, t. 3, fig. 99.—This is another form of O. x Wilckeanum with white 
