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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



natural hybrid believed to have originated from O. crispum and O. 

 luteopurpureum, and we do not know of a record that O. sceptrum and (). 

 Pescatorei grow anywhere intermixed in a wild state. The flowers are 

 fairly intermediate in character, the colour being pale yellow, blotched with 

 deep brown, and the lip showing strong evidence of the influence of 

 O. Pescatorei, which is apparent in other lespects, while the acute toothed 



It is an interesting and beautiful hybrid. * ? 



O. X m ERIFICUM was exhibited by M. Ch. Yuylsteke at the last 



Fig. 20. Odontoglossum x merificum. 



O. sceptrum. The present one (fig. 20) bears strong evidence of such an 

 origin, having the general shape and broad round lip of the latter, though 

 the colour and markings have been greatly modified, and here we think we 

 can trace the influence of a heavily blotched form of O. crispum. The 

 ground colour is li^ht yellow, and the markings of the deepest red-brown 

 imaginable. Another flower which may possibly have the same parentage 

 was described at page 170 of our tenth volume (the second one mentioned), 

 but, as in the present case, the parentage had to be inferred from the 

 characters of the flower. Whatever the origin of the plant now figured it 



