370 ORCHIDS: 
olive-green. Flower-spike stout, arched, branched, bearing 
from twenty to fifty large flowers, each from 14in. to 3in. 
across, and coloured deep shining brown, with a few 
yellow and reddish marks on the lower parts of the 
segments; sepals and petals large, oblong, narrow at the 
Fig. 88. Flowers of Oncidium crispum 
(nat. size). 
base, rounded at the apex, the margin crisped and wavy; 
lip almost circular, stalked, with two horn-shaped side 
lobes, and a three-lobed, warted, yellow crest; column 
yellow, with red wings. This plant may be grown on a 
block or raft, or in a basket, in the Cattleya-house. It 
