ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM (ALEXANDRAR) 
WRIGLEYANUM. | 
[PLaTe 493.] 
Natiwe of Bogota, New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong ovate, about three or more inches in length, 
compressed, and with acute edges. Leaves borne in pairs at the apex, oblong 
lanceolate and acute, of a light green colour, and about a foot long. Scape radical, 
slender, sub-pendulous, and many-flowered, having acute bracts at the base of the 
peduncles. Flowers about four inches in diameter, of pleasing form, white, heavily 
shaded with crimson; sepals ovate lanceolate, undulated, white, deeply flushed 
with crimson, with several large blotches of a deeper shade, and with a _ pure 
white margin; petals broadly ovate lanceolate, of the same colour and markings, 
and more undulated at the margins; lip white, blotched and spotted with rosy red, 
marked with rich clear yellow on the discal portion, and with a few lines of red 
at the base. Column arched, club-shaped, and reddish brown. 
ODONTOGLOssUM cRIsPpUM (ALEXANDRAE) WriIGLEYANUM, .Williams’ Orchid (frower's 
Manual, 7th ed., p. 558. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM WRIGLEYANUM, JfZort. 
This is without doubt one of the best and most handsome varieties of this 
well-known and useful plant, the flowers being of fine form, large, and very highly 
coloured. There have in recent years been many grand varieties in bloom from 
different importations, but none, we think, more beautiful than the one now under 
consideration ; such grand forms as Odontoglossum crispum ( Alexandrae) Veitchianum, 
O. crispum (Alexandrae) Mundyanum and others being more heavily spotted, but none 
are more chaste and graceful than this superb variety. Of spotted kinds we have 
many, such as Stevensiz, reginae, plumatum, Outramii, Cooksonii, and Duvali, all 
these being familiar forms; but the forms mentioned above are decidedly superior, 
and nearly as good as the grand form in the celebrated garden at The Dell, 
known as apiatum. It is from Pacho, which is about thirty miles north of Bogota, 
that most of the fine spotted varieties have been procured; but it bbe sss to 
~ be proved what produces these superb maculated varieties, and we think Reichenbach 
now would scarcely say, as he once did, “I never had any difficulty in recognising 
what is Mr. Bateman’s Aleandrae and what is my Blunti.” 
Odontoglossum crispum (Alexandrae) Wrigleyanum is named in honour of 
0. O. Wrigley, Esq., of Bridge Hall, Bury, and the plant from which our illustration 
was painted flowered during Whit Week, 1893, in the famous collection of 
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