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the sepals and petals and a small area at their 
extreme bases and around the edge of the 
lip. All the remamder of the bloom is vivid 
red brown, this colour on the lip being- 
brighter and having a sheeny surface over- 
lay. The form is fine, as shown by the 
photograph, the Ijloom measuring three inches 
ill diameter. 
Mr. Peeters, who raised it from Maria? x 
Luciani, is to be congratulated upon such a 
fine seedling. I saw the plant in bloom at 
Uccle in April, igo8, a tiny seedling with one 
flower. It has bloomed annuall}- since, and 
this year carried seven flowers. The logical 
deduction is that Mr. Peeters will ha\e manv 
a grand hybrid which will be a descendant 
of " Marsyas." It is a very interesting thing 
to see totally unspotted forms from this same 
seed-pod ; reversion is alwa\-s in evidence. 
dc B. C rawshay, Fcbriicxry J^th, igii. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM SATURNIA. 
cristalum Kegeljan 
crispum gloriosutn Hallii 
cristatellum 
Andersonianum 
Lucasianum 
Satiiriiia. 
I raised this hybrid with the idea of pro\ mg 
v.hat influence crispum could exert when 
pitted against no less than four of the yellow 
and brown species. The result is that it has 
been annihilated. 
The plant bloomed in 1910, and is remark- 
able and handsome. In form it is a very 
finely developed Andersonianum of Stewart- 
lanum proportions ; in colour a bright, 
dear yellow. Each sepal has two-thirds of 
its surface covered by a solid rich brown area 
extending from the base upwards, leaving a 
marginal band and apex of the yellow ground 
around it. The lip is large, oblong, apiculate 
yellow, with a central blotch of brown. 
It is, of course, unreasonable to expect 
cns|juiii to have had much influence, as having 
been only visited by an insect for its honey, 
it may have been a bad form. Kegeljani, the 
great grandparent, gives the rich yellow ; 
crista turn, through Hallii and Lucasianum, 
the hea\ y brown areas ; and gloriosum the 
general form. 
The next step of " Red " upon this will be 
intensely interesting. 
de B. C raiijshay, February 2i!t/i, njii. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM DOR^. 
nobile Harryanuin 
I I 
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Rolleae crispum 
nobile 
(Duchess of Westminster) 
I 
Lambeauianum 
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Dora. 
The accompaii} iiig photogra[)h will explain 
far better than any words what a beautiful 
thing this is as regards form and markings, 
but a few words descriptive of colouration are 
needed. 
The whole ground colour is rose and all the 
spo'.s are rosy-purple ; the lip and column 
being white, making a fine contrast to the rose 
ground of the sepals and petals. 
Mr. Charlesworth is again the raiser of 
another fine hybrid to add to his many 
successes, the earliest plant of it blooming 
last year. 
It is especially interesting to me as being of 
exactly analogous parentage to my Odonto- 
glossum rosefieldiense : the second hybrid 
being crossed with one of the original species. 
