type species the ovate (often lanceolate) petals and sepals are white, petals 
greatly undulated and generally fringed. Lip oblong and tapering to a point, 
yellow, spotted and blotched in the front with red or brown, crisped at the edges, 
with a crest at the base. Flowers at various times during the year, most frequently 
in Spring and Autumn. Flowers last three to four weeks. There are many varieties, 
the best of which are:— 
Var. apiatum.—Flowers larger than the type, pure white segments prominently 
toothed and crested, and blotched with chocolate. 
Var. Ashworthianum.—Good shaped flowers, sepals and petals rose-purple with 
white margins. Lip white with yellow crest, with purplish blotches in front of 
the crest. 
Var. Aureum.—Sepals, petals and lip flushed with lemon-yellow. 
Var. Baroness Schroeder.—Symmetrical flowers. Sepals and petals flushed with 
reddish-purple with a white patch at the bases and along the edges of the seg- 
ments. Lip white at the margins, centre blotched red-brown, disk yellow. 
Var. Confetti.—Sepals and petals white, flushed pink on the outside, the inside 
being thickly spotted with brownish-purple dots. Lip white, yellow crested and 
spotted brown. 
Var. Cooksonianum.— Sepals and petals white, much spotted and blotched with 
brownish-crimson. Lip white with a large blotch in the centre and smaller spot- 
tings on the yellow crest. 
Var. Franz Mazreel—Sepals white tinged with rose-pink and, like the petals, 
blotched with purple in the centre, and spotted at the base. Lip white spotted 
with brown in the centre and having a yellow crest. 
Var. heliotropium.—Segments heliotrope spotted with small brown dots. 
Var. King Edward VII.—Sepals and petals white, with very pale pink suffusion 
spotted with bright brown. Lip white, spotted brown and yellow crest. 
Var. Luciani.—A well-shaped flower, rose tinted and blotched with brown-purple, 
crested with yellow. 
Var. Mundayanum.—Flowers of good substance. Sepals and petals white, blotched 
with purple-brown. Lip white, spotted red-brown, crest yellow. 
Var. purpurescens.—Flowers white, very delicately tinted with rose, spotted 
bright brown-purple. 
Var. Rex.—Sepals and petals rose flushed, each having a single large irregular 
magenta blotch in the centre, with a few small ones at the edges. Lip white with 
brown blotch in middle. 
Var. Sanderae.—Sepals and petals and lip rosy white, heavily blotched with 
crimson-chocolate. Lip crested deep yellow. Flowers roundish. 
Var. Starlight.—Segments rose-tinted densely spotted with tiny red-brown dots. 
Var. Sultan.—Sepals and petals practically covered with reddish-chocolate blotches, 
the remainder white suffused with rose. Lip crested yellow. 
Var. Veitchianum.—White marked with brownish-crimson. Lip has a yellow disk 
and is spotted brown in front. 
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