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Reichenbach remarked, ‘‘ If I were to guess, I might conjecture its descent 
from O. Lindleyanum and O. cristatum.”” The flowers are nearly orange, 
with a few large crimson bars, the crest of the lip with two plate-like keels 
and six to seven teeth on either side, and the wings of the column falcate- 
subulate and denticulate. The only combination capable of fulfilling all 
these conditions is the one we are now considering. O. cristatum grows far 
away in Ecuador, and is quite out of the question, while O. luteopurpureum 
would just as readily account for the characters of the hybrid. 
Odontoglossum x lepidum is the other hybrid apparently derived from 
this parentage. It was imported from New Granada by Messrs. Shuttleworth 
and Carder, Park Road, Clapham, and flowered in their establishment in 
1883. Reichenbach observed that “the column is much in the way of that 
of O. Lindleyanum: it is long, slender, with narrow wings,” which was 
evidently one parent. ‘The flowers are nearly equal to those of 0. 
cirrhosum.” Lip hastate, with a long unguis and reniform apiculate blade. 
Callus, terminating in two recurved plates of nearly triangular shape with 
a tooth on each side. Flowers yellow at first, ultimately white with yellow 
edging; sepals with two or three cinnamon blotches, petals with but one; 
a similar spot stands on the lip before the keels, and the base shows some 
brown marbling. 
I have not seen an authentic flower of either of these forms, but hybrids 
with this parentage have appeared in the collections of E. G. Wrigley, Esq. 
Howick House, Preston; W. Thomson, Esq., Walton, Stone, Staffordshire; 
and H. Grose Smith, Esq., The Priory, Ryde, Isle of Wight. 
It may be distinguished from the preceding hybrid by its longer column 
with less toothed wings, the longer unguis of the lip, and an approach to 
the characters of O. Lindleyanum generally. In short, it almost combines 
the colours of O. x mulus with the shape of O. Xx Coradinei, except that 
in the shape of the lip it approaches O. luteopurpureum, as would naturally 
be expected. 
The following are the forms of this hybrid, with references to 
tions. It has apparently not yet been figured :— 
descrip- 
Odontoglossum x acutissimum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1882, i. p. 256 
O. X lepidum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1883, ii. p. 526. RA R 
(To be continued.) 
ODONTOGLOSSUM UROSKINNERI SEEDLINGS: 
In the Orchid Album, vol. ix., t. 417, occurs a note that i 
ve: J. Buchan, Esq., Wilton House, Southampton, “ We saw f ae 
seedling Odontoglossums which had been raised in this country: it 
been obtained from Odontoglossum Uroskinneri without any eb 
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