﻿January, 1904.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



O. X Adrians first appeared in April, 1897, in the establishment of 

 Messrs. L. Linden & Co., at Moortebeek, and was at once recognised as a 

 hybrid between O. crispum and O. Hunnewellianum. It then received a 

 First-class Diploma of Honour from the Orchidienne of Brussels. It is now 

 known that it came out of an importation of O. crispum from a new 

 locality, where the two species mentioned grow intermixed, and since that 

 time many other plants have appeared in the same way, and it has proved 

 to be common and remarkably variable in colour and markings. As in 

 other hybrids between O. crispum and another yellow-flowered species, there 

 are hybrids both with white and yellow ground colour, and the amount of 

 spotting varies greatly, some forms being very densely and others very 



Fig. 5. O. X Adrians Victoria-Regixa. 

 sparingly spotted. In every case, however, the characteristic shape and 

 details of O. Hunnewellianum can be very readily traced. It is curious 

 that the hybrid should have remained so long unknown, considering how 

 diligently O. crispum has been searched for. 



The variety Victoria- Reg ina (fig. 5) is a very heavily blotched and 

 handsome form from the collection of Baron Schroder, The Dell, Staines, 

 which leceived a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. in April, 1902, 

 under the name of O. X Adrians memoria Victoria-Regina. It is one of 

 the handsomest varieties known, and our figure was taken from a flower of 

 the type plant. 



