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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[September, 1915. 



NEW HYBRIDS. 



Odontonia Kaffir Queen. — A pretty 

 addition to this distinct section. Produced 

 by crossing Odm. harvengtense with Miltonia 

 Warscewiczii, the flower has the sepals and 

 petals heavily blotched with red-brown, the 

 large, square labellum is almost covered with 

 a shining crimson-red blotch, the margin of 

 which is tinged with rose, while in front of 

 the yellow crest is a rich crimson blotch of 

 triangular shape. Raised by Mr. F. W. 

 Thurgood in the Rosslyn collection, Stamford 

 Hill, London, N. 



Cypripedium Gypsy.— The result of 

 crossing insigne and Watsonianum (concolor 

 X Harrisianum). Raised by Mr. Wm. Bolton, 

 of Warrington, who used the variety of 

 msigne known as Oddity, which has three 

 labellums. See note on page 241. 



LYCASTE ARTHURIANA.~An interesting 

 hybrid between macrophylla and Balliae 

 (macrophylla x Skinneri), exhibited by Mr. 

 R. Ashworth, Manchester Orchid Society, 

 July 22nd, 1 91 5, when it obtained an Award 

 of Merit. 



L.elio-Cattleya Mrs. Harold King.— 

 The result of crossing L.-C. Epicaste and 

 L.-C. callistoglossa, the flower of excellent 

 shape and deep purple. Exhibited by Mrs. 

 R. le Doux, Manchester Orchid Society, 

 July 22nd, 191 5, when it received a First-class 

 Certificate. 



Odontoglossum cerissimum. — A pretty 

 hybrid between Ceres (Rossii x Rolfeje) and 

 ardentissimum, the flowers of rose ground 

 effectively spotted with red-brown. Raised 

 by Messrs. Flory and Black. 



L.ilio-Cattleya Sylph.— This cross 

 between L.-C. luminosa and C. Warscewiczii 

 has been raised by Mr. F. C. Puddle in the 

 Scampston Hall collection, Rillington, York. 

 The labellum is of an unusually bright purple 

 colour. 



Cypripedium Warnham Fairy. — A 

 pleasing result obtained by Mr. C. J. Lucas, 

 Warnham Court, Horsham, the parentage 

 being Fairrieanum and Clinkaberryanum 

 (Curtisii X philippinense). 



ODONTIODA NIRVANA. 



(Odm. naevium X Oda. Charlesworthii.) 



Mr. Armstrong sends me the first spike of 

 this most elegant little hybrid. It is easily 

 pictured by imagining naevium majus stained 

 deep rose and heavily barred and spotted 

 with crimson-brown, the white ground and 

 dark spotting of it having assumed the 

 crimson of the Charlesworthii. The lip of 

 naevium has reduced that of Charlesworthii 

 greatly in size, and the colour here is a deep 

 rosy-mauve. 



A group of nasvium and this hybrid will be 

 a most artistic one. There are only five 

 hybrids from naevium at present named, all of 

 them having originated at Orchidhurst and 

 Rosefield. 



de B. Crawshay, Rosefield, Aug. §th, igi S- 



DENDROBIUM THYRSIFLORUM. 



A NATIVE of the forests of Moulmein 

 and of the Kargen district of Lower 

 Burmah, this species was introduced 

 in 1 804 by Messrs. Low and Co., through the 

 Rev. C. Parish, its discoverer. It flowers in 

 April and May, and has, since its first 

 introduction, been regarded by horticulturists 

 as one of the most beautiful species of the 

 genus. 



By some authorities it is considered a 

 variety of D. densiflorum, which has angulate 

 stems. In D. thyrsiflorum the stems are 

 terete, longer and more slender. Hence the 

 two plants can be easily distinguished when 

 not in flower. 



D. thyrsiflorum var. Walkerianum is stated 

 to have had stems 3 feet in height, and the 

 racemes of flowers 2 feet long, bearing more 

 than 50 flowers. 



The unexpanded racemes have a curious 

 cone-like appearance. This is caused by the 

 flower buds being completely enveloped by 

 the large imbricate bracts, and forming a 

 thyrse, from which the specific name is 

 derived. 



