THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[July, 191; 



ODONTOGLOSSUM LAMBARDEANUM. 



crispum luteo crispum triumphans 

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crispum luteo crispum triumphans 



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nobile crispum Wilckeanum harvengtense 



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crispum Harrvanum Wilckeanum harvengtense nobile crispum ardentissimum 

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crispo-Harryanum Vuylstekei ardentissimum 



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Vuylstekei 



illustre 

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Vuylstekeae 

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coeruleum 

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LAMBARDEANUM 



This complex parentage is, after very 

 careful consideration, what I feel almost cer- 

 tain to be the "modus " by which the present 

 hybrid has been 

 produced. 



From a photo- 

 graph, however 

 well reproduced, 

 it is sometimes 

 quite impossible 

 to determine the 

 ancestry of a 

 flower, but from 

 the hving bloom, 

 the mass of data 

 I fortunately 

 have accumu- 

 1 a t e d , and a 

 somewhat inti- 

 mate knowledge 

 of Mons. Ch. 

 Vuylsteke's pro- 

 ductions, f feel 

 there is not much 

 doubt that we 

 have here the 

 history of this extremely beautiful hybrid. 



There is not much need to describe its 

 form, as this is well shown by the figure. 

 The colour is magnificent ; the whole flower, 

 back and front, being uniformly of the richest 

 bluish claret-purple, except the lip where a 

 somewhat greater residuum of brown is left 

 from the influence of the " brown and yellow " 

 progenitors. The sepals and petals are mar- 

 gined by a very narrow edge of white, the 



Odonioglossum Lambardeanum. 



latter's apices being deeply stained white as 

 the overlay of colour does not reach the 

 extreme ends. 



In the lip the 

 margin becomes 

 a border of 

 stained white 

 having at the 

 extreme edge a 

 still much smaller 

 marginal line of 

 tiny spots re- 

 sembling a spot 

 of pigment at 

 the extreme end 

 of the nerve or 

 channel by which 

 it was led there. 

 The column is en- 

 tirely brownish- 

 crimson, forming 

 a most striking 

 centre to the 

 already gor- 

 geously coloured 

 flower. 



In these very complex hybrids I have 

 adopted the following plan instead of the 

 usual one heretofore followed in descriptions, 

 such as " half coeruleum, quarter Vuylstekei," 

 and so on, as it is clearer to trace them back 

 to their furthest origin that we are conversant 

 with, namely, to the imported species. By 

 this mode we can find the number of parts, 

 thus : 7 crispum, 2 nobile, 2 luteo, 2 triumphans, 

 and I Harryanum, 14 m all. 



