ODON TOGLOSSUM CRISPUM - REGINA. 
| [PLATE 264.] 
Native of New Grenada. 
| Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, diphyllous. Leaves ligulate-oblong 
--aeute, keeled beneath, the flowering bulbs having one or two accessory ones from 
the base. Scapes radical, growing in the axils of the accessory leaves, and supportin 
a many-flowered dense drooping raceme of numerous flowers, which have each a saul 
ovate appressed bract at the base of its pedicel. Flowers fully three and a_ half 
inches deep, and as much in breadth, white, beautifully spotted with deep brownish 
purple ; sepals lanceolate acuminate, wavy, entire, white, the lower two-thirds bearing 
from eight to ten oblong sometimes confluent spots of a deep reddish brown or 
chocolate colour; petals broader, ovate acuminate, the edges deeply and irregularly 
toothed, spotted like the sepals with reddish brown, the spotting mostly d in 
two lines just within the margin; lip oblong cuspidate, crispato-undulate, white with 
a yellow disk. and marked with one large spot of reddish brown near the end of the 
broader portion, beyond which it is shortly cuspidate, and having one or two similar 
spots on each side at the edge of the yellow, the base furnished with several 
radiating lamelle which are lined with crimson, and having a erest of two divergent 
elongated ridges. 
a OponToGLossuM crispum REGIN”, Hort. Philbrick. 
Of the numerous varieties which have been and are being introduced of the 
Odontoglossum crispum (Alexandre), many are very welcome and charming additions 
to our collections of cool Orchids. They richly deserve the popularity they 
have achieved, for there are no Orchids more useful and none more accommoda- 
, ting than these: and those who have but a small greenhouse or even @ frame to 
_ protect them may successfully cultivate them with little expense and trouble. These 
_ Various floral treasures are found in different localities in their native country, and 
__ it is altogether beyond our power to imagine, much less to recount, the attractions 
_ that are yet in store for us, since new forms and colours are turning up in nearly 
all the more recent importations. If we were fortunate enough to live amongst these 
Orehidic beauties, so that we could cross them and sow the seeds in the most 
likely places for them to germinate and flourish, they would no doubt soon 
produce an abundance of plants without any further aid from man. 
| The Odontoglot we now figure is a most beautiful one, and was flowered in 
the fine collection of F. <A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., Oakfield, Bickley. We have a 
yh h of this plant, which has been taken by Mr. HL. Stevens, of Covent 
who is quite an adept at this work. | 
