﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. [January, 1904. 



O. X Coradinei flowered in the establishment of Messrs. James Veitch 

 & Sons, at Chelsea, in 1872, out of an importation of O. crispum, and was 

 named after one of the collectors who sent it home. Reichenbach 

 suggested that it might be a hybrid between O. triumphans and some 

 species of the odoratum group. It was, however, afterwards recognised as 

 a hybrid between O. crispum and O. Lindleyanum. It is a fairly common 

 hybrid,' though less variable than the two preceding. It would be 

 interesting, now that the difficulty of raising seedling Odontoglossums has 

 been so largely overcome, to have the parentage confirmed by actual 

 experiment, and there should be little difficulty about the matter if the 



Fig. 4. O. x Coradinei mirabile. 

 species in question were crossed together. A similar remark applies to 

 O. X Andersonianum, and to O. X Adrianae, figured on the next page. 



The variety mirabile (fig. 4) is a very remarkable form which appeared 

 in the collection of Baron Schroder, The Dell, Staines, and - received an 

 Award of Merit from the R.H.S. in June, 1894, under the name of O. 

 crispum mirabile, and a First-class Certificate in May, 1897, under the 

 present name, its hybrid origin in the meantime having been pointed out. 

 It is the finest form of this hybrid which has yet appeared, and the figure 

 here given was taken from a flower of the type plant. 



