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the flower spike three feet high, and many-flowered. The 

 flowers are large, four and three-quarter inches across, white 

 shghtly flushed on the sepals with blush, the sepals and petals 

 otherwise colourless, very broad and very densely frilled ; the 

 lip, which is large and frilled, with a broad apiculate recurved 

 apex, has the usual yellow disk, and in front of it a few 

 chestnut brown spots, which are sometimes confluent into an 

 irregular blotch. The noble flowers are arranged in two 

 series, one on each side the rachis, and form a full secund 

 inflorescence. — New Grenada. 



YiG.— Warner, Sel Orch. PI., iii. t. 20. 

 Syn. — 0. Alexandrce giganteum. 



0. crispum guttatum, Moore. — A very handsome variety, 

 in which the flowers are large, white, the sepals and petals 

 bearing a few spots of reddish brown ; and the lip is large, 

 deep yellow at the base, and there dotted with red, having a 

 single large spot in its central part and other smaller spots 

 along the margin. — New Grenada. 



Fig— Bot. Mag., t. 5697 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 94 ; Puydt, Les ch., t. 

 .28. 



Syn.— 0. Alexandra guttatum. 



0. crispum Lehmanni, Bchh. /.— A remarkable variety, 

 i^pith narrow leaves, and flowers smaller than those of the type, 

 and described as being produced on a branching inflorescence, 

 sometimes as many as fifty in one panicle. There are several 

 reddish brown spots on the lip of this variety, which is very 

 distinct, being much broader than that of the typical O. 

 crispum, and altogether a rounder flower. — New Grenada. 



0. crispum Marianse, Moore. — A very handsome and dis- 

 tinct variety, which was first flowered by R. Warner, Esq. 

 The flowers are about two and a half inches in diameter, the 

 sepals being as bi'oad as the petals, both pale rose colour 

 heavily blotched with reddish purple ; and the lip is white, 

 spotted profusely with pale brown, and having a yellow disk. 

 — New Grenada. 



Syn.— 6>. Alexandrce Marianm. 



0. crispum roseum, Moore. — A very handsome and distinct 

 variety, having the sepals and petals deeply tinted with lilac- 

 rose colour, and marked with a few irregularly scattered spots 

 of chestnut brown ; the lip, which is white, and broad at the 



