112 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CyYPRIPEDIUM X MULUS.—By an oversight we omitted to state the 
origin of this hybrid when describing it at page 244 of our last volume. It 
was raised by Mr. Maynard in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander and 
Co., of St. Albans. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM x EXCELLENS VAR. HARVENGTENSE. 
This is the beautiful Odontoglossum for which M. le Comte de Bousies 
received a First-class Diploma of Honour at the meeting of the Orchidéene 
of Brussels, on February 11th last, and which has been mentioned in various 
reports as a natural hybrid between O. crispum and O. sceptrum. Through 
the kindness of M. A. A. Peeters, of Brussels, I have seen the inflorescence, 
and find that the plant is a fine variety of O. x excellens, a hybrid between 
O. Pescatorei and O.triumphans. Shape, colour, column wings and crest 
of lip are absolutely in agreement,-and quite different from those of O. xX 
Wilckeanum, of which the first-named parentage would have made it a 
variety. The inflorescence is very fine, and the largest flower measures three 
and a half inches across its longest diameter, while the petals are fourteen 
lines broad, and the lip and dorsal sepal ten lines. I have seen a form of 
this hybrid with longer segments, though they were narrower, having more 
of the shape of O. triumphans. The flower has a very light yellow ground 
with many minute light cinnamon spots on the petals and larger ones on the 
sepals and lip. It is not so heavily spotted as the O. x excellens dellense 
in Baron Schréder’s collection. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
DENDROBIUM x EUOSMUM AND ITS VARIETIES. 
A series of forms of this beautiful hybrid has reached us from Messrs. 
James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea. It will perhaps be remembered that it 
was originally obtained by crossing Dendrobium x endocharis (D. japoni- 
cum X aureum) with the pollen of D. nobile, and that the name is given 
in allusion to its fragrant flowers. The flowers are white with a medium- 
sized maroon-purple disc, and each segment lightly flushed with pale, rosy 
purple. The variety leucopterum is larger and of the purest white, except 
the disc, which is a little paler than in the original form. Another pure 
white form has been called variety virginale, and chiefly differs in having 
rather narrower and more acute sepals and petals. The variety roseum is 
a beautiful rose-coloured form, but is remarkably like D. x Dominianum 
(D. nobile x Linawianum), and we cannot avoid a suspicion that it is a 
stray seedling from that cross. If not the resemblance is very remarkable. 
D. x euosmum and its varieties are very floriferous and beautiful. 
