January, 19' 5-] 



IHIi ORCHID WORLD. 



85 



When E. Endresio-Wallisii was first 

 exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, January 12th, 

 iSy2, a First-class Certificate was awarded 

 by the Orchid Committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, who also ^ave a similar 

 award to the variety superbum shown by the 

 same exhibitor, April 21st, i8g6. 



E. elegantuliim, of which we reproduce a 

 photograph, is the result of crossing Wallisii 

 and Endresio-Wallisii. It was exhibited by 

 Messrs. Veitch, R.H.S., Mevrch loth, i8g6, and 

 awarded a First-class Certificate. The 

 flowers, which are much larger than those of 

 the original h)bnd between the two species. 



show much diversity of coloration, the 

 varieties lutcuin and leucochilum being 

 sufficiently distinct to receive Awards of 

 Merit. 



E. Clarissa is the result of crossing Wallisii 

 with elegantulum, and on that account is a 

 hybrid in which one species, E. Wallisii, has 

 been used as a jjarent three times. Like the 

 two preceding hybrids, it was raised and 

 exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, a First-class 

 Certificate being received, April lOth, igoo, 

 and on April gth of the following year an 

 Award of Merit was granted to the variety 

 superbum. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPILLIA. 



cvispum hiteopurpiireum crispum triumphans 



nobile crispum Wilckeanum harvengteiise 



armainvilliftrense Vuylstekei 



crispum illustre 



I (Theodora) 



Crispillia. 



The first plants of this cross to bloom 

 in England (of which I know) were 

 raised by the late Mr. J. S. Moss, of 

 Wintershill, Bishop's Waltham. Six of 

 these are figured m the Orchid Review, 

 191 3, p. 249, Figs. 41-46, but the parentage 

 given as O. illustrissimum x crispum is a 

 mistake. Mr. Moss and I made a series of 

 crosses in which illustre figured largely, and 

 he sent me a copy of the post-card from 

 which these figures were made, but with the 

 parentage correctly stated, illustre x crispum, 

 the latter being a heavily blotched one. He 

 did not think it well to name and publish 

 the cross till the second season, which, 

 unfortunately, he did not live to see. 



I have now bloomed a plant of a similar 

 cross from two entirely different parents, with 

 the result that its markings are almost 

 identical to Fig. 44, except that the white 

 margin is narrower, and the white area at 



tips of petals is absent, owing to the fact 

 that the pollen parent has sepals and petals 

 almost entirely covered with lilac-purple. 

 The crispum I used was one of the old Pacho 

 type, having a suffusion of undeveloped 

 blotched areas, showing more on the back 

 than in front of the flower. 



With the object of developing the blotches 

 by using a " solid," the result has been 

 attained in a lilac-purple ground almost 

 entirely covered by a brownish overlay. This 

 is interesting from a scientific point of view 

 also, as Crispillia could be mistaken for a 

 variety of crispum, eximium, or any of that 

 now rapidly expanding group of garden 

 hybrids. The yellow of luteo and triumphans 

 have been eliminated, but their brown 

 has remained and made the fine overla\' 

 mixed with the rose of the crispum and 

 nobile. 



dc B. Crawshay, Rosefield, Dec. ist, igi^. 



