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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[XovembcT, 1913. 



NEW HYBRIDS. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM LEDA. 



nobile crispum 



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Hallii Harryaiium iiobilc armainvilliercnsc 



Cravvshayanum frplendidum 



Leda. 



The first plant of this cross to bloom 

 shows a very strong reversion to the pre- 

 ponderating influence of nobile, as would be 

 expected, the ground colour being white 

 with the slightest shade of creamy lightest 

 yellow in it, spotted in a somewhat linear 

 arrangement, caused by Hallii, somewhat 

 heavier in the sepals than in the petals, much 

 in the way of the Crawshayanum which was 

 the seed parent. The lip is oblong, somewhat 

 reniform at the apical half, pure white, having 

 two " eye " spots only. 



All spotting on sepals, petals and lip is of 

 a lilac-brown shade, also the result of nobile's 

 spotting. The crest is light yellow and 

 much like those of the secondary Harryanum 

 hybrids. The column is white with deep 

 brown wings. 



The form is similar to that of the variety 

 of Crawshayanum that carried the pod, the 

 sepals and petals not meeting at the shoulders. 

 In this case the prepotency of the white 

 ground has proved too strong for the yellow, 

 the reverse generally taking place in the 

 suffusion of the white by the yellow. 



dc B. Crawshay, October i ith, igi S- 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPODINISPUM. 



Lindlcyanum crispum 



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Coradinei crispum 



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crispodinei crispum 



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crispodinispum. 



Had this plant bloomed from an impor- 

 tation in the nineties, few would have 



questioned it being a " pure crispum." 

 Sepals and petals heavily blotched light 

 rosy-brown on a rosy-white ground, lip 

 triangular, almost covered by a light brown 

 shining overlay blotch.- Crest yellow, the 

 central keels being strongly divergent 

 (showing the Lindleyanum ancestry). 

 Column mostly white, but having a deep 

 crimson back and some of the same colour 

 running down the lacerate wings. 



This cross may be called a step-ladder to 

 making a blotched crispum. The Coradinei 

 used was an average one from an importation. 

 It was crossed by a sparsely spotted crispum ; 

 the resulting crispodinei had a bright yellow 

 ground with two heavy whorl blotches on 

 sepals, and one large and two small ones on 

 petals. The lip was triangular, with one 

 heavy blotch so often found on Coradinei. 



This plant being the first to bloom of the 

 cross we may expect further interesting 

 variation, but it incontestably proves what 

 many of the " blotched crispums " of days 

 past were, viz., hybrids. 



de B. Craiushay, October iith, igij. 



Cymbidium FlorindA. — This new hybrid 

 between giganteum and erythrostylum has 

 been raised by Sir John Edwards-Moss, Bart, 

 of Roby Hall, Torquay, and is believed to be 

 the first hybrid resulting from the use of the 

 latter species. The plant carried two spikes, 

 one with two, the other with four blooms. 

 The flowers are creamy-yellow, tinged with 

 light brown, and marked with rose-crimson 

 lines, the margin of the hp spotted with 

 crimson-red, the inner portion of the side 

 lobes marked with crimson-red hnes, the front 

 lobe yellow, the crimson column having a 

 creamy-white anther cap. 



L.elio-Cattleya Xantho. — This, the 

 result of crossing L.-C. Ophir and C. Iris, 

 has been raised in the collection of Mr. 

 Richd. G. Thwaites, Streatham. The medium- 

 sized flower has pale chrome-yellow sepals 

 and petals, the side lobes of the labellum 

 marked with lilac. 



Odontonia MacNabiana. — A beautiful 

 addition to the Odontonias has been raised 

 by Messrs. Sander and Sons. The parentage 



