ODONTOGLOSSUM. 



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tip, with a recurved apiculus, is more freely spotted with 

 brown, the yellow disk being less prominent. — New Grenada. 



¥m.— Floral Mag., 2 sen, t. 2G9. 

 Syn, — 0. Alexandres roseum, 



0. Crispum Sanderiauum, Hon. — A very distinct and 

 beautiful variety, Laving large port wine coloured blotches on 

 the sepals and petals. It was exhibited by Baron Schroder 

 at the Orchid Conference of the Koyal Horticultural Society 

 in May, 1885. — New Grenada. 



0. crispum Steyensii, Williams and Moore. — One of the 

 finest of the spotted forms, with noble flowers three inches 

 across. The sepals and petals are white, vei-y heavily spotted 

 and blotched with bright cinnamon brown ; the lip is also 

 similarly spotted, and has the orange stain on the disk very 

 prominent. It is quite one of the best forms yet observed. — 

 New Grenada. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 127. 

 Syn. — 0. Alexandra Stevensii. 



0. crispum Trianse, Moore. — A superb variety, with very 

 large flowers nearly three inches in diameter. The sepals are 

 white shaded with rose, the dorsal one having a single large 

 round spot of ferruginous red in the centre, while the lateral 

 ones have each three such spots, with a patch of several 

 smaller ones of bright rose on their outer half ; the petals are 

 pure white very broad toothed and wavy ; and the lip, which is 

 broad and two-lobed at the apex, has the usual yellow disk, 

 and a large blotch of ferruginous or coppery red in the centre, 

 with smaller spots of the same colour along the upper margins. 

 It flowers in October. — New Grenada. 



Yia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5691; 

 Stn. — 0. Alexandra Triance, 



0. crispum Yeitclliaiium, Bchh. f. — This is one of the most 

 distinct and richly coloured of all the many beautiful forms of 

 O. crispum at present introduced. In its pseudobulbs, leaves, 

 and inflorescence, it resembles the typical plant. The flowers 

 are produced in well-furnished racemes, and are of large 

 though perhaps not the largest size, broad and well filled out 

 as to form, and very gaily coloured. The sepals are broadly 

 ovate with the edges undulated, and the base very little nar- 

 rowed, white with about two large central blotches of deep 

 brownish crimson, and a row of smaller oblong blotches out- 



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