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be reckoned curious rather than pretty. Narrow and rather 

 small, dull greenish yellow, with a longitudinal bar and spots 

 of red-brown. 



Wilckeanum Roths childianum. — Perhaps the handsomest 

 form of this rare variety. Large, very broad of sepal and 

 petal, pale yellow, blotched and spotted with brown. 



Pescatorei Germinyanum. — Named after the Comte de 

 Germiny, an enthusiastic lover of orchids, as indeed of all 

 other flowers. This ranks among the prettiest forms of 

 Pescatorei. Petals white, sepals flushed ; both marked with 

 a spot of dark rose. Lip white, with similar dots. 



Sceptrum. — A superb variety of the common luteo- 

 purpureum. Sepals deep reddish brown, with yellow edges ; 

 petals yellow, blotched with reddish -brown. Lip yellow, 

 with a single blotch in front. 



Coronarium. — One of the Odontoglots which may be 

 termed climbing par excellence, for the pseudo-bulbs thrust 

 out a long shaft before taking form. It makes a very large 

 plant, and probably the example here is the largest existing 

 — at least there are few as big. By successive enlargements, 

 the basket in which it stands has reached the dimensions 

 of three feet by two. Coronarium is reckoned among the 

 species slow to flower, but here we find no difficulty at all. 

 Last season our plant made nine growths and threw up 

 eight spikes — a record ! Noble spikes they are too, bearing 

 twenty to thirty blooms ; petals of the brightest red-copper, 

 marbled with yellow at the base ; petals somewhat browner, 

 both edged with gold. Lip small, narrow, light red, broaden- 

 ing towards the tip, which is pale primrose. I should describe 

 coronarium as the most majestic of Odontoglots. 



Crispum Arthurianum. — A notable variety — very large, 

 blush-white, with one enormous chocolate blot and two or 

 three small spots on sepal and petal. Spotted lip. 



Crisp o-Harryanum. — This is one of the very few hybrid 



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