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origin has thus been put to the test, though we fear that the above remarks 
are based upon evidence which has proved unreliable. The published 
figures are made up with the help of C. Leopoldi, and thus are incorrect so 
far as habit is concerned, while the original flowering in May, 1892, was 
certainly abnormal—delayed through importation—for two authentic plants 
already mentioned in these pages have both flowered in the autumn. Our 
remarks at page 293 afford conclusive evidence that the plant does possess 
precisely that combination of characters which it ought to have if our 
theory of its origin is correct. 
HYBRID ODONTOGLOSSUMS. 
(Continued from page 201.) 
ODONTOGLOssUM xX LINDLEYANO-TRIUMPHANS.—The first trace of this 
hybrid which I have discovered is the account published by Reichenbach 
of a plant which flowered in the establishment of Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, 
in 1888, to which the name of O. x dicranophorum was given. It was 
described as a highly interesting Odontoglossum, conjecturally a hybrid, 
“and one cannot help thinking of Odontoglossum triumphans, notwith- 
standing the narrow floral envelopes, and in order to lessen ones perplexity 
one may think of O. Lindleyanum.”” The sepals are light yellow, with two 
large brown areas, and the petals similar, but with one brown area in the 
middle and some brown spots at the base. The lip is adnate to the column 
at the base, light yellow with a brown area in the middle, The crest is 
supposed to resemble “an old-fashioned two-pronged fork,’ whence the 
name. The column wings are square and toothletted, and the plant like a 
well-developed O. Pescatorei, I have not seen an authentic specimen, but 
think it must belong here. 
The same year a plant appeared with Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of 
Chelsea, which was supposed to be a form of O. triumphans with narrow 
segments. The characters of O. Lindleyanum, however, may be very clearly 
traced in it. 
In 1891 a plant appeared with Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. Albans, 
which I described as a natural hybrid between these two species, under the 
name of O. x Godseffianum. It is precisely intermediate between them in 
every respect, and a decidedly handsome form. It is darker in colour than 
O. x dicranophorum, to judge by the description of that, yet both appear 
to be forms of the same hybrid. 
_ The following are the references to published descriptions of this 
. oe = : : 
ontoglossum X dicranophorum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1888, i, le 330, 360. 
0. x ¥ Codeedllieka: — Z¢., 1891, ii. p. 728. 
