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coloured flowers when placed in a cool house ; if they become 

 damp they soon get spotted, and so lose their beauty. 



The form which originally received the name of 0. Alexandrce 

 had nearly pure white flowers, with a bright golden blotch 

 on the lip. 



The plant called 0. Bhmtii is a form with white sepals 

 and petals shaded with rose and richly spotted with purplish 

 crimson, the lip also being profusely spotted. 



We may repeat that this is the most useful of all the Odon- 

 toglots, and one cannot have too many of it, so useful is 

 it for every purpose for which flowers are grown. — Neiv 

 Grenada : Bogota, at an altitude of 7,000 to 8,000 feet. 



YlG.— Orchid Album, i. t. 47 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 26 ; Floral Mag., t. 343; 

 Bateman, Mon. OdonU, tt. 14, 19 ; Flore des Serres, t. 1652 (Bluntii). 

 Syn. — 0. Alexandra!, 0. Bluntii, 



0. Crispum aureum, Hon. — One of the best yellow 

 varieties of 0. crispum we have yet seen. The sepals and 

 petals are of a deep lemon yellow, the sepals spotted with 

 brown ; and the lip is yellow, having two brown spots on 

 the anterior part. This variety was exhibited by F. A. 

 Philbrick, Esq., Bickley, at the Koyal Horticultural Society's 

 meeting in February, 1884, and was awarded a first-class 

 certificate. — Neiv Grenada. 



Stn. — 0. Alexandrce. aureum. 



0. crispum Cooksoni, Williams and Moore. — A very splen- 

 did variety, one of the best spotted forms yet obtained. The 

 sepals and petals are white, heavily marked in broad patches 

 with dark brownish crimson, and the lip is white, haung a 

 large blotch of the same brownish crimson on its anterior part 

 and a few spots on either side of the crest, which, with the 

 disk, is golden yellow. It flowers during the summer 

 months. — New Grenada. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 118. 



Syn. — 0. Alexandres Cooksoni, 



0. crispum flaveolum, Bckb. f. — A most distinct and 

 pleasing variety, having the flowers of a pale sulphur yellow 

 colour, and the lip of a bright yellow, marked with about 

 three reddish brown spots. — New Grenada. 



¥lQ.— Orchid Album, i. t. 43. 

 Syn, — 0. Alexandrce flaveolum.. 



0. crispum giganteum, Moore. — A magnificent variety, in 

 which the pseudobulbs and leaves are large and robust, and 



