﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[July, .904. 



difficult to see why it was passed over. The ground colour is white, very 

 slightly tinged with yellow, and the blotches are deep red-brown. The crest 

 is yellow, with numerous red-brown markings, and the column-wings are 

 distinctly toothed. As regards shape nothing need be said, except that the 

 segments are rather broader than they appear, because they had begun to 

 recurve a little before the photograph was taken. 



O. X VENUSTULUM (fig. 31), the upper right-hand figure, is said to 

 have been derived from O. X Harryano-crispum crossed with O. X 

 ardentissimum, but we should think O. X Rolfeae a far more likely second 

 parent, and for two reasons. O. X ardentissimum appeared in 1902, when 

 it was the sensation of the Temple Show, and no hybrid from it could have 

 reached the flowering stage in so short a period ; besides which the new 

 hybrid is much more like O. X Rolfeae. A composition of half O. Harryanum 

 and one-quarter each of O. crispum and O. Pescatorei is much more in 

 accord with the plant's character than half O. crispum and one-quarter 

 each O. Harryanum and O. Pescatorei ; in fact, the latter represents the 

 composition of the succeeding hybrid, though the result was arrived at by a 

 slightly different method. To return to O. X venustulum, the ground 

 colour is white, tinged with lilac towards the margin of the segments, while 

 the markings are brownish purple. The disc is yellow, and here the 

 markings are more brown. The column wings are slightly toothed. 



O. X JAPONAIS (fig. 32), the lower left-hand figure, was derived from O. 

 crispum album crossed with O. X Rolfeae, and thus is composed of half 

 O. crispum and one-quarter each O. Harryanum and O. Pescatorei. The 

 ground colour is white, very slightly tinged with cream, and the mark- 

 ings are light yellowish brown. The disc is brownish yellow, and the 

 column wings distinctly toothed. It is a very distinct and handsome 

 hybrid, and was exhibited by M. Jules Hye de Crom. 



O. X CONCINNUM letum (fig. 33), the lower right-hand figure, is said 

 to have been derived from O. Pescatorei crossed with O. sceptrum, and thus 

 must be regarded as a form of O. X amcenum, which was exhibited by 

 M. Jules Hye de Crom at the Temple Show last year (O. R., xi., p. 183). 

 The ground colour of the flower is yellowish white, with the markings 

 purple-brown and the crest light yellow. The column wings are shortly 

 toothed. As in the preceding cases, nothing need be said about the shape- 

 which is well shown in the photographs, but we may call attention to the 

 remarkably broad hp. It was exhibited by M. Ch. Vuylsteke, and received 



Two others exhibited by M. Vuylsteke were O. X insignitum, a form of 

 the preceding, with rather narrower, longer segments, and O. X percultum, 

 recorded as O. X Rolfeae X ardentissimum (which requires confirmation), 

 having segments heavily blotched with brownish purple on a light ground. 



