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PL. DXXXIV. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ROSSI unot. var. PAUWELSIAE 1. uno. 
MADAME FLORENT PAUWELS’ VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11. 
Odontoglossum Rossi. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 73. 
Var. Pauwelsiae. Sepalis brunneis intensius marmoratis minutissime albo marginatis, petalis eodem modo pictis, 
margine alba latiore. Labello albo, crista splendide lutea ; columna alba, anthera violaceo-rosea. 
Var. Pauwelsiae L. Linp. Fournal des Orch., VII, p. 179, et supra. 
Var. Madame Pauwels. Fourn. des Orch., VII, p. 49. 
here are two clearly distinct groups in the varieties of Odontoglossum 
| Rossi : some having white flowers blotched with brown more or less 
| dark, sometimes slightly greenish; the others having pink flowers 
bigicuee with purple-red more or less deep in colour. The former type seems 
to be most ancient in date; it was introduced by the collector Ross for the 
first time in 1837, for M. Barker, of Birmingham. 
Both these groups comprise a certain number of forms, and taken together, 
the species may be considered as one of the most variable, after O. crispum. 
No variety hitherto known, however, equals the beauty of the one we 
now figure, and which has been so greatly admired at the Meeting of the 
OrcHIDEENNE on g” February 1896. All the connoisseurs who have seen it, have 
spontaneously ratified the appreciation of the Jury, who had awarded it a First- 
Class Diploma of Honour unanimously and by acclamation. In this variety, 
which belongs to the first of the two groups above mentioned, the sepals are 
entirely suffused with light brown, with a mere white margin, whereas in 
all the other forms of O. Rossi, the sepals are white (or rosy), with a few 
blotches only at the base. On this ground, large irregular chesnut-purple spots 
vein them gracefully, especially near the base; the petals are spotted in the 
same way. 
I am particularly happy to dedicate this superb plant to the wife of the 
distinguished amateur in whose house it has made its appearance; it will hold 
its owen in a place worthy of it. The collection of Orchids wich M. Fr. Pauwers 
has formed at Deurne, in a few years, with wonderful perseverance, faultless 
taste, and remarkable technical competency, contains a great number of select 
plants, some of which are of the first order. It is, moreover, admirably cultivated. 
