344 ORCHIDS. 
a broad border of white; lip white, with a few chestnut 
spots. 
Fig. 80 (for which we are indebted to the Editor of the 
‘Gardeners’ Chronicle”’). 
0. cristatum.—In this little species the pseudo-bulbs 
are somewhat oval, of a light shining green, bearing very 
narrow leaves of the same hue. The flowers are creamy 
yellow, varying in shade in the different forms, and 
banded or spotted with very dark brown or purple. The 
great prominence of the processes upon the lip, which 
is yellow or white, with a few brown spots, has given 
rise to the specific name. The flowers have in the 
evening a faint odour of meadowsweet. -=A native of 
Peru. 
Illustration Horticole, 1870, t. 21. 
Var. cristatellum. — Flowers larger: lip yellow and 
brown. Syns. O. cristatellum, O. Lehmannz. 
0. Edwardii—tThe colour of the flowers of this species 
is an exceptional one, no other Odontoglossum being 
at all like it. Being easily cultivated, and a ready 
plant to bloom, it has become a very popular Orchid, 
although its flowers are rather small. The pseudo-bulbs 
are 44in. long, ovoid, and two-leaved. The leaves are rft. 
or more long. Flower-spike almost erect, very stout, 
branched, and crowded with flowers, each tin. across. 
All the segments are about equal in size and form: 
they are oblong, wavy, and coloured violet-purple or 
puce, except the crest, which is yellow. Introduced 
from Ecuador, and flowered for the first time in England 
in 1880. It requires cool treatment, and plenty of water 
when growing. It usually flowers in early spring. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 6771. 
