THE ORCHID WORLD. 
14? 
NEW PLANTS. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM VALESCA. 
(sceptrum X Vuylstekei.) 
[F oin a photograph by Lionel Crawshay.) 
crispum X luteo-pnrpureum triumphans crispum"] 
Wilckeanum 
harvengtense 
sceptrum 
Vuylstekei 
V^alesca. 
This may be aptly called a study of browns 
and yellows, for by the diagram it is seen to 
contain three of the most powerful of the 
brown and yellow species. 
There is a certain amount of problematic 
ancestry in the Wilckeanum used by M. Vuyl- 
steke, but as it was one of the very heavily 
three-barred-sepal varieties, known as atro- 
purpureum in England and President Zald- 
iiua in Belgium, there is not much doubt that 
it was a direct cross of crispum and luteo, 
for that has been amply proved by the 
garden-raised varieties. 
Presuming, therefore, that it was so, we 
have a hybrid containing two-fifths crispum 
(and possibly these were not entirely devoid 
of yellow in their ancestry) and three-fifths 
yellow and brown, of three different shades 
of each colour. 
It will be at once seen that the influence 
of luteo has gone down before tliat of 
triumphans and sceptrum, and these three are 
present in exact relation to their remote or 
later use in the creation of the hybrid. The 
yellow and brown of this plant are both good, 
r;ch and bright, and most symmetrically 
arranged. 
The influence of the two-fifths crispum is 
seen in the rounded form, the white lip, and 
the throat. The "eyebrows" of the petals 
are derived, possibly from the crispum or 
the sceptrum ; the column has a purple-brown 
back derived from the d* parent. 
Fine yellow and brown hybrids will always 
be admired, and anyone who raises them 
should make a study of the components, and 
they will not be disappointed. I bloomed 
the plant in the midst of the December, iQio, 
General Election, but did not e.xhibit it. 
de B. Crawshay, February 2jth, igi i. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM 
MARSYAS. 
(From a pliolograph by Lionel Ciaivshay.) 
This magnificent variety may be called a 
" bicolor " variety, as it has only two colours 
in its description, and very little indeed of 
one of these two, viz., white, which is almost 
obliterated to the very narrow margin around 
