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F. Fedde. 



the sepals and petals two-thirds distance from their bases, and also had 

 a group of „punctatum" spots in their lower areas. In form it was 

 ordinary. 



The ground colour of the 0. Wattianum was yellow, copiously 

 spotted with brown, its lip being also yellow, with a heavy brown blotch 

 under the erest. 



This new hybrid, of which I have as jet only bloomed one plant, 

 may show as great an improvement in the future as in the case of the 

 male parent. The sepals are greenish-yellow, with a little rose suffusion, 

 containing one brown bloth at two-thirds distance from the base, also a 

 broken line of spots around the margins, and an incipient inferior bar 

 made up of a few spots. 



The petals are of a pleasing shade of rosy-yellow, with a smaller 

 blotch placed as in the sepals; in their lower area thickly spotted on the 

 rosy ground. 



The lip is pure white, but has a large spot and a very few small 

 ones on each shoulder; in form it is similar to O. Lindieyanum, but 

 smaller, its crest and adnation to column being about identical; the in- 

 fluence here has been so great that there is but a filament on each side 

 of the central keels. 



The column is almost like that of 0. Lindieyanum. 

 68. Crinum amoenum Roxb. var. Mearsii R. H. Beddome in Gard. Chron., 

 3. ser., XLII (1907), p. 62. 



Bulb round or rarely ovoid and slightly tapering towards the apex 

 up to 2 inches in diameter; leaves ensiform rather thin, undulate, 8 

 inches to 1 foot or more long, 1 inch wide, tapering gradually to a 

 point, very smooth, closely veined, margin entire; peduncle moderately 

 stout, somewhat flattened, a little more than l /# inch broad, 3 to 4 l /a 

 inches long, umbel 6 to 10 flowered, spathe-valves about 2*/» inches 

 long, thin, pale coloured, about b / 8 inch broad at base, gradually tapering 

 to a point; filiform processes present round the spathe and between the 

 pedicels; pedicels 1 / i inch long, perianth hypocrateriform, tube slender, 

 white, up to 5 inches long, erect at first, cernuous before the buds open; 

 segments white, lanceolate, spreading, 8 1 /, inches long, Va inches broad, 

 tapering and incurved near the acuminate apex; stamens not quite so 

 long as the segments, the upper half reddish; anthers linear, x /a inch 

 long, style of the same length as the segments, upper half reddish, 

 stigma with three short lobes. Whole plant when not in flower only 2 

 to 3 inches high, flowering well in a 60 (3-inch) pot. 



This variety was discovered in Upper Burma by Major Arthur 

 Mears in a dry Teak wood forest on hills (2,500 feet elevation), a little 

 to the north of Mingin. It differs from the type in being a smaller plant 

 with smaller leaves which have glabrous edges; the peduncle also is 

 shorter and flattened. 



69. X Odontoglossum Ariadne (0. nobile 9X0. Wettiamm Craws- 

 hayanum <f) De B. Crawshay, 1. c, p. 101. 



