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Facetum. — A good example of this catches the eye at 

 once. Ground colour pale yellow, almost hidden by great 

 brown bars upon the sepals. The petals are sharply freckled 

 with brown, and up the middle runs a series of dark red 

 dots. Lip similarly freckled above, with a large splash of 

 brown in front ; the lip handsomely fringed. 



Cristatellum. — Rather small and not impressive, but 

 valuable for its scarcity. The yellow ground colour shows 

 itself only in a few narrow streaks upon sepal and petal, and 

 in the base of the lip. Elsewhere it is hidden beneath layers 

 of chestnut. 



Hallii magnificum. — A variety finer in all respects than 

 the common type. Sepals brown, save the yellow tips, and 

 a few yellow lines ; petals yellow, with two large brown 

 blots. The fringed lip also is yellow, with two brown 

 blots. 



Madrense. — Named after its place of birth, the Sierra 

 Madre, in Mexico. The plant is not uncommon, but it 

 does not flower willingly, as a rule. Sepals and petals ear 

 white, with a double purple blotch at the base ; lip small, 

 bright orange. 



Polyxanthum magnificum. — The grandest variety of a 

 species always treasured. In colour deepest ' old gold,' with 

 four or five great blots of chestnut on the sepals, and as 

 many spots at the base of the petals. The lip has a shallow 

 fringe and a broad splash in the centre. 



Wallisii, — Small. Sepals and petals dusky yellow, with 

 a long straight bar of chocolate down the middle. Lip 

 white at the base, with small rosy streaks ; the disc rosy, 

 edged with white. 



Hallii leucoglossum. — One of the largest Odontoglots. 

 BufF or greenish yellow, lip white, fringed ; all heavily 

 blotched and spotted with dark brown. 



Mirandum.— Among so many charming species this must 



