56 THE ORCHID WORLD. [ncccmIxT, 1914. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM HANNIBAL. ODONTOGLOSSUM ROMA. 



crispum triumphaiis nobile Harryanum 



harvengtense rrispum Roll'ea; crispum 



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hellein<"nse Lambeauianum 



Hannibal. 



This is the resultant of a cross to attempt 

 a " sunset coloured " hybrid ; m other words, 

 crimson flushed upon a yellow ground. The 

 $ parent had a deep rich yellow ground well 

 spotted with \ery rich deep lustrous choco- 

 late ; the ^ was one of M. Peeter's raising 

 from crispum Luciani, having two-thirds of 

 its surface covered by rich ]:)urple-brown upon 

 a violet-purple ground. 



Hannibal has the same yellow ground, but 

 so covered with crimson-chocolate as to nearly 

 obscure it and make it look paler than it is, 

 as is apparent in some of the hybrids from 

 Loochristy resulting from Vuylstekei ; the 

 backs of the sepals and petals are also half 

 covered by the same colour. 



The lip is of a fine crispum, white, with a 

 large spot in front of the keels, and the lower 

 half covered by minute spots almost forming 

 a crimson-brown overlay. These spots 

 become so around the crest, which being 

 orange stands out well upon the subjacent 

 colour. The column is cream-white. 



The plant is in full growth as well as in 

 bloom, hence the next spike should show a 

 material improvement. It has been a ver}' 

 shy one to bloom, considering I made the 

 cross on March 24th, igo/. 



B. Craivshay, Noi'cuibcr 13th, iQi^. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM ZYGUS. 



Andersonianum Kegeljani 



Zygus. 



Fortunately only one plant survived of this 

 cross as I should have begrudged space for 

 any more. Briefly described, it can be called 

 a very bad waltoniense. The great retro- 

 grade power of gloriosum has robbed the 

 whole of the good quality of the other parents. 

 de B. Crawsliny, Noi'oiibcr i^/h, uji f. 



crispum Harryanum crispo-Harryaniim nobile 



crispo-Harryanum Ossulstoni 



Roma. 



A reference to Odontoglossum Dora 

 (Orchid World, March, igii, p. 148) will 

 give a good idea of what my Roma is like. 

 Subtract the suffusion of small spots outside 

 the eyebrows of the petals and the minute 

 markings on the petals ; widen the reniform 

 blade of the lip ; alter the colour of the 

 markings to light rosy-brown ; result becomes 

 Roma. 



She IS only a small plant with two blooms, 

 but has a future that promises a very beautiful 

 race of rose grounded forms, these having 

 been used in the parentage to try and fix it. 



It is not surprising, but very interesting to 

 find such similar results when the basic 

 specific quantities are compared. Dora has 



1 Harryanum, i crispum, 2 nobile ; Roma has 



2 Harryanum, 2 crispum, i nobile. 



de B. Craiushny, Noi'cniln'r /J///, iQi-f. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM GLYCON. 



nobile Harryanuii nobile cris])um 



Roli'eae armainvillierense 



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luteopurpureum percultum 



G ycon. 



In making this cross I used one of M. 

 Vuylsteke's early percultums, which were not 

 the best, and naturally the immense flower of 

 luteo almost overpowered the hybrid. The 

 colouring and form are intermediate between 

 the parents, both sepals and petals almost 

 covered except some marbling of the usual 

 arrangement. There is a shade of the plum 

 colour of percultum in the brown. 



1 he lip is creamy-yellow with a blotch and 

 basilar marks of lustrous brown. The crest 

 IS that of luteo, the column takes after nobile. 

 dc r>. C razvsliay, Noi'cnibcr /J///, /<;/^. 



