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Mountains, where it was collected by Schlim, though the fact has been lost 
sight of, owing to the confusion of this species with O. gloriosum. 0. 
nevium is therefore quite out of the question, and the only alternative 
seems to be to suggest O. gloriosum as possibly the other parent, for that 
species grows in the same district, and would account for the peculiarities 
of the hybrid quite as well as O. nevium. The fact is it resembles O. 
nobile so much in its more essential features that it is not at all easy to fix 
the other parent with certainty. It differs in having much narrower, rather 
longer segments, and a less pandurate lip, with the front portion of the 
crest approaching the structure of O. gloriosum and its allies, while the 
tips of the column wings are also. slightly prolonged, showing the same 
influence. 
A few years later a second plant appeared in the collection of J. S. 
Bockett, Esq., of Stamford Hill, chiefly differing in having the front lobe of 
the lip more elongated and acute, and the sepals and petals slightly margined 
with a light purplish tint, whence it was called variety cinctum, 
Should other plants appear hereafter they may show more of the 
character of the second parent, and thus clear up its origin. 
The following are references to published: descriptions and a figure of 
this hybrid :— 
Odontoglossum X Murrellianum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1875, i. Pp. 053; Veitch 
Man. Orch., i. p. 75; Gartenflora, xxxi. p. 353, t. 110! 
ODONTOGLOssuM x CooKEANUM.—This is a single plant which appeared 
in the collection of Malcoim C. Cooke, Esq., of Kingston Hill, in November, 
1891, and received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. 
It was received with O. blandum, which was probably one of the parents, as 
the shape of the flower, particularly of the lip, and spotting of the segments 
are in close agreement. On the other hand, the ground colour of the sepals 
and petals is bright yellow, which I think must have come from O. 
triumphans, to which the crest of the lip bears a decided approach, which 
would further account for the flower being enlarged to the size of O. 
Lindleyanum, or rather more, and the elongated column. The lip, how- 
ever, is free at the base, and the wings of the column are much more like 
the other supposed parent. I cannot find any other combination which 
accounts so well for the characters of the plant, and the two supeosee 
parents both occur near Ocana, though I have not found any record ot 
their growing intermixed, which, is not surprising, . considering how little 
dtaceatien of this kind i is on record. 
he following i is the original reference :-— 
Pheer! *% “soem Rolfe i in Gard. Chron. , 1891, ii. p. 696..— - ieGIke 
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