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PL. DLXVII. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM uot. var. LINDENI soar. 
_ Mr. J. LINDEN’S VARIETY OF 0. CRISPUM. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11. 
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 101. 
Var. Lindeni Hort., Sem. Hort., I, p- 58. — Gard. Chron., XXI (1897), p. 269. 
‘a dontoglossum crispum var. Lindeni, which is dedicated to him who disco- 
vered the type of this marvellous Orchid more than fifty years ago, 
24 flowered for the first time last February with Messrs. Lucien Linven & Co., 
at Moortebeek, among an importation which had been received in May 1896. 
Although the plant is still weak, having only three pseudobulbs and one lead, 
yet the four flowers borne on the frail spike were comparatively speaking very 
large. So as not to weaken the puny plant too much, it was deemed prudent to 
let it flower for a few days only. The plant however is quite healthy and there is 
no doubt that next year it will be seen under more favourable conditions. 
What first attracted our attention were the perfect form of the flower and 
the two distinct shades of the blotches — that on the petals being a beautiful 
rich rose, while on the other segments it is a pale brown — the two colours 
thus presenting a unique contrast. 
So far as our own choice is concerned we would place O. crispum var. 
Lindeni in the first rank by the side of the marvellous O. c. Luciani, the famous 
augustum of Mr. Jutes Hye, and Baron Scuroéper’s apiatum, to all of which it is 
equal. 
The houses at Moortebeek, which contain many thousands of plants all 
in vigorous growth, already comprise an extremely rich collection of fine varieties 
and I should be very much astonished if the following among them were not 
worthy of mention, viz : procerum, Adrianae, Ruckeri Margaritae, R. excelsior, 
magnificum, musaicum, bellum, mirabile, Wilckeanum Leopoldi, W. tigrinum, W. lu- 
teum, W. decorum, W. nobile, W. castaneum, W. grande, W. illustre, W. aurosum, 
W. formosum, W. albescens, W. splendens, W. spectabile, etc., and out of this 
enormous number of plants about two thousand have flowered up to the 
present. 
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