JuLy, 1908.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 209 
ODONTOGLOSSUM x EGREGIUM VAR. MADAME JULES 
HYE DE CROM. 
THE beautiful variety here figured was included in the magnificent group 
which was staged by M. Ch. Vuylsteke at the recent Ghent Quinquennial 
Show, and was noted at page 153 as having broad segments of a peculiar 
bronzy claret hue. The photograph here reproduced has been kindly sent 
by the raiser, and shows the excellent shape and other details of the flower 
very clearly. The peculiar bronzy claret colour is diffused almost through- 
out the sepals and petals, leaving a very few pale markings at the margin 
and extremities. The lip, however, has more white in it, and its colour 
Fig. 27. O. X EGREGIUM VAR. MADAME JULES HYE DE CROM. 
and markings are certainly very beautiful. The plant was exhibited without 
record of parentage, and we have provisionally retained the name under 
which it was shown, and under which it was subsequently figured (Gard. 
Chron., 1908, i. p. 362, fig. 165), but we believe that it is a hybrid between 
O. X Vuylstekei and O. X ardentissimum, and thus a variety of O. X 
illustre. Owing to the great variability of some of these complex hybrids, 
and the absence of records in so many cases, it is becoming increasingly 
difficult to classify them correctly. It may be added that there is also an 
earlier O. X egregium, but we believe it to bea variety of the extremely 
polymorphic O. X Andersonianum. 
