﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM APTERUM VAR. GURNEY WILSON. 



At the R.H.S. meeting held on May 3rd last an Award of Merit was given 

 to a handsome Odontoglossum from the collection of Gurney Wilson, Esq., 

 Glenthorne, Hayward's Heath, under the name of O. nebulosum Gurney 

 Wilson, and the variety was shortly afterwards figured [Card. Chron., 1904, 

 i., p. 356, fig. 185). Mr. Wilson now writes : " I am sending you a block 

 of Od. nebulosum Gurney Wilson, which appeared in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 for insertion in the Orchid Review, if you think it good enough and of 

 sufficient interest to your readers.*' We are pleased to reproduce the figure 



Fig. 37. Odontoglossum aptekum Gurney Wilson. 

 of this handsome variety, which, as the initials show, was prepared from a 

 drawing by Miss Roberts. We have not seen a living flower, and would 

 therefore remark that the segments are described as " silvery white, slightly 

 tinged with rose at the backs, and attractively spotted with purple, in 

 which a slight green tint can be observed.*' It differs greatly from the 

 typical form, in having the spots extending practically to the apex of the 

 petals and lip, and in this respect is best comparable with the variety 

 pardinum, which seems to have originated in Mr. Salt's collection. It was 

 figured by Mr. Day in April, 186S (Coll. Draw., xi., t. 74), with the remark: 



