200 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
HYBRID ODONTOGLOSSUMS. 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM NOBILI-TRIUMPHANS.—This is a well-known and very 
beautiful hybrid, and further interesting on account of its having been twice 
raised artificially, a fact which should be taken well to heart by those who 
are so sceptical about the existence of natural hybrids. 
It originally appeared in 1881, in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., Burford, Dorking, having been imported by Messrs. Hugh Low and 
Co., of Clapton, and is said to have been regarded as a yellow Pescatorei by 
the collector. It was described as Odontoglossum x -excellens, by Reichen- 
bach, who remarked :—‘ If a guess were permitted, I would suggest that 
this might be natural hybrid between Odontoglossum Pescatorei and 
tripudians.” Messrs. Veitch, in publishing their Manual, suggested O. 
triumphans as an alternative parent instead of O. tripudians, and, better 
still, proceeded to test the matter by making the cross in question, with the 
result to be presently seen. — : Bt 
Three years later another plant appeared with Messrs. Hugh Low and 
Co., which Reichenbach at first described. as O. Vuylstekeanum var. 
maculatum, though he afterwards admitted and corrected his error. 
The same year a plant appeared with Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of 
St. Albans, which was described under the name of Odontoglossum x 
stellimicans, by Reichenbach, who remarked that it appeared with O. 
Pescatorei and “ may be a mule between this and O. triumphans or 
tripudians, or even Lindleyanum.” It can hardly belong to the hybrid 
we last considered, where Reichenbach’s last alternative would place 
it, and the hybrid from O. nobile and tripudians is not certainly known. 
The colour of the flower as well as the shape of the lip and column-wings 
are those of the present hybrid. I only know it from the description. 
O. X eugenes appeared in 186, in the collection of the Duke of Suther- 
land, at Trentham, having flowered out of an importation made by Messrs. 
James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea. The sepals and petals are longer and 
more acuminate than usual. 
The variety chrysomelanum appeared in 1888, in the collection of Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking. The sepals and petals are 
vholly yellow and spotted all over. 
From this time forward it became more common, as plants of it appeared 
in several different collections, having been purchased as one or the other 
of the parent Species, and some of them were afterwards exhibited as yellow 
forms of O. Pescatorei, 2 
2 O. x Brandtii appeared in the collection of Herr Brandt, at Berlin, 
having flowered out of one of Messrs. Sander’s importations. It was 
figured and described as a new species, though it. evidently belongs here. 
