68 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MaRcH, 1900. 
names have been certificated by ‘the Orchid Committee, but are surely no. 
improvement on the one held up as an example to be avoided. The Orchid 
Stud-Book says, “‘ Hybrids between species should receive names, Latin or 
classical, consisting of a single word,” and surely “‘ Phcebe”’ is classical 
enough. Perhaps the Committee will find a better illustration for their 
final Report. 
The system of forming names from parts of the names of the parents: 
has been adopted a good deal of late, but may easily be carried too far. I 
noted last month the examples, Cypripedium Xx Sanderz-Kimball and C. 
x Ville-Acteus. The former indicates a cross between two yellow varieties. 
of C. insigne, Sander and Laura Kimball, and thus is a variety of C. 
insigne, and not a hybrid proper. The latter indicates a hybrid between 
C. X Ville de Paris and C. x Acteus, but the first is said to be a form of 
C. X Romulus and the second a form of C. X Simonii. The other day I 
saw a hybrid called C. x Curtmanii, and naturally enough thought of C. 
Curtisii as one parent. But no, it was C. x M. de Curte, a form of C. X 
Schlesingerianum. Truly nomenclature is a thorny subject, and full of 
pitfalls. ARGUS. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM PAUWELSII. 
AN interesting and pretty natural hybrid has appeared in the establishment 
of M. Th. Pauwels, Meirelbeke, Ghent, of which the inflorescence and an old 
pseudobulb has been sent. M. Pauwels states that it flowered out of an 
importation of O. Pescatorei received from Ocana last year, and is the only 
plant presenting any difference so far, though a good many plants are still 
unflowered. It is much nearer toO. blandum than to O. Pescatorei, having 
rather narrow acuminate sepals and petals, but the column wings are broad 
and strongly toothed, not extended into a simple cirrhus, as in O. blandum. 
The lip, again, has more of the Pescatorei shape, and the characteristic side 
lobes of the crest are present in a reduced form. O. blandum is also 4 
native of the Ocana district, and the present plant is evidently a hybrid 
between the two. The flower is rather larger than in O. blandum, and the 
sepals and petals rather broader and less acuminate, the colour being white. 
with about eight to twelve roundish dark purple spots. The lip has the 
almost typical Pescatorei shape and strong constriction at the sides, with a. 
deep yellow, four-lobed crest, approaching that of O. blandum, and small 
side crests like those of O. Pescatorei reduced. The colour is white, and 
there are two purple spots on the front lobe, and a few others on the crest- 
The column wings are broad, strongly toothed, and end ina small cirrhus 
in front. It possesses the most unmistakable combination of characters of 
the two species mentioned, and those desiring to possess this pretty little 
plant should repeat the cross. R. A. ROLFE. 
