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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM BELLONA. 
luteopurpurcum X gloriosum 
mulus Harryanum 
BELLONA. 
No doubt some, perhaps almost would 
exclaim, " What waste of time ! " ljut by 
having one plant of this h\'brid we are able 
to compare the result with those produced 
from one of the compounding parts of mulus, 
viz., Souvenir de V. H. de Crom and the only 
other hybrid of Harryanum containing" glorio- 
sum, viz., Bradshawias (derived from Ancfer- 
sonianum). 
It is far nearer to Souvenir de V. H. de 
Crom than Bradshawi-s?, proving that m this 
instance luteopurpureum was far more potent 
than gloriosum, crispum having more or less 
overpowered it by the aid of the heavy 
Harryanum form and colour. 
Bellona, as indicated by the name, is very 
dark, a deep, shining brown that has a sheen 
of lilac here and there, the colour developed 
on the backs of the segments as it is in luteo- 
purpureum, barred and marked by the ground 
yellow. The lip is bright yellow with deep- 
brown Ijasal lilotching. 
It would, of course, be too much to expect 
form to be very fine, as all three species are 
lacking in it, but it is by no means an un- 
pleasing hybrid. 
In raising it from a ver} " black" mulus 1 
acquired a shade of colour I have only seen 
in one other Harryanum h\ brid, namel)-, in 
" Aida," another of m\' own curiosity raisings. 
dc B. C raivsha y, March 22nd, igi i. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HIGHFIELDIENSE. 
crispum luteopurpureum 
I I 
triumphans Harryanum 
L I 
I 
Oueen Ale.xandra 
I 
Wilckeanum 
crispum triumphans 
I I 
I 
harvengtense 
Vuylstekei 
HIGHFIELDIENSE. 
The history of this hybrid is very interest- 
ing, owing to the fact that it has triumphans 
as a primary ancestor on both sides, and the 
result is most conclusively proved by the 
rapid way in which the flower " flagged " 
when cut and kept out of water. (There are 
many ways of determining the force of 
parentage.) 
In form it is somewhat " open-shouldered," 
but will improve with age, and is more than 
balanced by the beautiful lustrous velvety 
brown of the whole flo\\er, which is only 
lightly barred and ground-marked b)' the 
underlying yellow. The hp is of modified 
Harryanum form, and is a brilliant deep 
)-ellow, ornamented with lilac-purple spotting 
at the base and all around the margin, as in 
Queen Ale.xandra and crosses therefrom. 
It is remarkable that these labial marginal 
spots should almost always be present in a 
triumphans-Harryanum descent ; they are in 
greater or less evidence according to the 
remoteness or nearness of the triumphans in 
the hybrid, but I have seen very few that do 
not bear some trace of it ; it seems as if the 
outer edge of the triumphans heavy labial 
mass of colour was the most difficult part to 
break up. Other evidence of its great power 
can be found in the great labial area of colour 
in crispums Rossendale and Theodore Pau- 
wels, both of which have triumphans latise- 
palum in their ancestry through a harveng- 
tense. 
This hybrid was raised in the Chillingham 
collection, purchased as a small seedling, 
having no record, growing upon another plant, 
bloomed and named by the purchaser, and 
sold to Mr. Richard Ashworth, of Ashlands, 
Newchurch, Lancashire, in whose collection 
the phnit has found a home among many 
other beautiful Odontoglossums. 
de B. C razushay, IMarch 2'jtJi, igi i. 
