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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
the latter, no doubt, 
having an ancestry of 
varied components 
which we cannot at 
all define with pe/fect 
accuracy. 
Odontiodas which 
appear to have most 
broken up the red 
are perhaps the various 
crosses of Brads haw ice, 
Sf. Fuscicu, C ooksoni(p, 
Seiiciincca, and gatton- 
cnsis. The first three 
contain crispuni, the 
second and fourth have 
H unnci^'cU laniiiu in 
them, thei last having 
Kegeljani. As the best-patterned arrange- 
ment of spottmg of red-brown' or red, I thmk 
no one will dispute the superiority of Odon- 
tioda St. Fiiscicn Iiiipcrator, and in it the 
b.-eaking up has been similarly effected by the 
same ancestry as m Sciicnacca. Odontioda 
Brad shawice Cookson's variety is practically 
OdonlioJa Lutetia. {R H.S. Painting ) 
Od onto nlossnm 
a blotched cnspinii m 
a study of red and lilac 
with a Cochlioda Kocz- 
liana lip, unquestion- 
ably the finest yet seen 
of its cross. In gat- 
toncnsis we have a 
different system of 
breaking up the red, 
and I have great hopes 
of the secondary 
crosses herefrom be- 
coming fine things. 
Since writing this 
paragraph Mr. R. G. 
Thwaites showed (9 ^/o;^- 
iioda Cecilia (Coch- 
lioda Xoesliaita x 
W tganianinii ), which has 
gone a step further, in that the red of 
Cochlioda Xoczliatia has been supplanted 
by a creamy-yellowish-white ground covered 
with small red spots. This has been 
effected by the collective poiuers of the 
white grounds in the ancestry of this 
