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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



flower, in which the characteristics of this 

 species may possibly be more in evidence, 

 which, of course, would certainly occur had 

 I recrossed L.-C. Adolphus with C. Aclandiae, 

 but I thought it would be more interesting 

 to try with some other species which would 

 improve the shape of the flower." The 

 specimen sent has cinnabar-yellow sepals and 

 petals, and a purple blotched labellum. 



Cattleya Olaf (labiata alba X 

 Parthenia Prince of Wales) — A 

 pleasing flower with almost white sepals and 

 petals ; the labellum has purple mottling in 

 front of a yellow disc. Shown at the meeting 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society, Novem- 

 ber 7th, igii, by Francis Wellesley, Esq. 



Cypripedium a. J. H. Smith (Hera 

 EURYADES X NIVEUM)— A flower slightly 

 larger than the latter parent, and remarkable 

 for having the upjaer half of the petals con- 

 siderably darker than the other portions of 

 the flower. Raised by Mr. H. J. Chapman, 

 Orchid grower to Mrs. N. C. Cookson, Wylam. 



L^lio-Cattleya Sapphirata (L.-C. 

 CanhamiANA X C. MAXIMA).— The flower 

 of this new hybrid resembles the former 

 parent in size and form, but the lip is almost 

 covered with a mass of blueish-purple veins 

 derived from the pollen parent. Raised by 

 Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM HELLAS. 



Hallii Harryanum 



Hallii Crawshayanum 



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Hellas. 



To many this would not commend itself, 

 but it is more than an ordinary Hallii as it 

 might almost be thought it would be. In 

 form it approaches Harryanum, having some- 

 what incurved petals. In colour it goes to 

 Hallii, having the three whorls of blotches 

 peculiar to it, the linear spotting in the bases 

 of the petals being easily recognisable, the 

 ground colour of both sepals and petals being 

 creamy-yellow tinged with green. 



The lip is a very handsome segment, and is 

 large, creamy-white with a central red-brown 



spot, and having a run of marginal spots at 

 the lower hailf of the sides, its crest being 

 almost that of a pure Hallii ; the column very 

 like Hallii, but the cirrhi almost suppressed. 

 I used a fine variety of Hallii leucoglossum, 

 hence the general hght colour of this hybrid. 

 It bloomed April 22nd, 1911. 



de B. Crawshay, November 20th, igii. 



u m ^ 

 ODONTOGLOSSUM MOMUS. 



gloriosum crispum 



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Harryanum Andersonianum 



triumphans Bradshawiae 



Momus. 



Od. Bradshawiae and its hybrid Momus, 

 which I bloomed in May, igog, are unique 

 plants ; some may say " a good thing, too," but 

 if no one raised anything but what was certain 

 to be " fine and valuable," we should not have 

 learnt perhaps that which we know now, and 

 we, or at least some of us, might still be 

 saying " blotched crispums are not hybrids." 

 I wonder if there is anyoneyfAiO still thinks so ? 



Momus has a rich-yellow ground colour 

 evenly spotted with red-brown, thicker in the 

 sepals, the basilar markings derived from 

 triumphans being strongly marked, and in 

 form it is like the same parent ; the petals 

 have the central basal line peculiar to 

 gloriosum. 



The lip is almost white-ground colour, 

 having a central arrow-head shaped blotch 

 of red-brown that has the sheen peculiar to 

 triumphems, the crest, column, and wings are 

 almost that of a pure triumphans, which 

 species predominates very heavily, almost 

 obliterating the three other parental species. 



It is here seen how powerful a true trium- 

 phans from the Ocana district is ; the reason 

 being that it is almost a pure species, so little 

 hybridity has taken place there, so different 

 from triumphans latisepalum, which is so 

 mixed up among crispum, Hunnewellianum, 

 etc. 



de B. C rawshay, November 20th, igii 



