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side these, all being enclosed by a belt of purplish rose some 

 distance within the margin, which preserves its pure white 

 character. The petals are also ovate, but considerably broader 

 and more decidedly undulated, the margins being also toothed ; 

 the colour resembles that of the sepals, but there is frequently 

 only one central blotch, which is then larger than those on 

 the sepals. The lip is oblong, broad, and well displayed, 

 white with yellow disk, the surface marked by a few crimson 

 splashes over the central parts, and pencillings near the edge, 

 with the usual radiating lines round the base of the column. 

 It is certainly one of the handsomest forms that has yet 

 appeared. The plant is now in the rich collection of Baron 

 Schroder, of Staines. — New Grenada. 



'Fig.— Florist and Pomol., 1884, 177, t. 623. 



Syn. — 0. crispum mirabile. 



0. crispum virginale, Williams. — This is a pure white 

 variety, having very large flowers of fine substance, without 

 either spot or tinge of pink in the sepals and petals ; the 

 disk and crest of the lip yellow as in the type. It was 

 exhibited by us at South Kensington in November, 1882, 

 when it received a first-class certificate. — New Grenada. 

 Stn. — 0. Alexandres virginale. 



0. crispum Warneri, Moore. — A magnificent form of this 

 beautiful species, exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Exhibition in 1869. It is a large-growing vigorous 

 form, with long close secund racemes of very large blossoms, 

 upwards of three inches in diameter, having the sepals white 

 stained with rose, and spotted on the central area with about half 

 a dozen oblong spots of chestnut brown ; the petals very broad, 

 dentate at the edges, pure white ; and the lip, which is large 

 and densely frilled, white stained at the base with rich 

 yellow, in front of which is a large squarish patch of bright 

 chestnut brown. This fine variety has been well figured by 

 Mr. Warner. — New Grenada. 



Fig.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, ii. t. 23. 

 ^Y^.— O. Alexandra Warneri. 



0. Cristatellum, Echh. f. — This species is allied to 0. 

 cristatum, and is a very rare plant. It has ovate pseudo- 

 bulbs of moderate size, ligulate oblong acute leaves, and 

 radical peduncles terminating in racemes of attractive flowers 

 each two and a half inches across, in which the roundish 

 oblong-ovate sepals and petals, which are about of equal size, 



