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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM cpt. var. ASHWORTHIANUM o’srien, 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM, Mr. ELIJAH ASHWORTH’S VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p., t- 
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 101. 
Var. Ashworthianum, Floribus majusculis, intense roseo-purpureis et laete roseo marmoratis, margine irregu- 
lariter albo-argenteis; sepalis petalisque latis, margine crispulis, basi albis; labello intense purpureo et albo variegato 
basi Iuteo, disco ad medium lineis paucis irregularibus intense luteis ornato ; columna dorso intense purpurea, antice 
flava. 
Var. Ashworthianum O’BRIEN in Gard. Chron., ser. 3, XIX, p. 196, fig. 26 (1896). 
his beautiful variety was described last February by Mr. James O’Brign, 
from some flowers sent by Mr. Exryan Asnwortu, Harefield, Hall, 
Wilmslow, Cheshire, to whom he dedicated it. 
The flowers are large; the sepals and petals are broad, with slightly crisped 
margins, of a very deep rosy-purple, veined with a paler rose, irregularly 
margined with silvery-white, with white base. The lip is deep purple, variegated 
with white, especially on the edges, the base is yellow, and on both sides of 
the callus, several irregular bright yellow lines. The column is deep purple on 
the posterior side, the anterior part is yellow. 
Mr. O’Brien deems that in the group to which this variety belongs, it would 
be difficult to find more perfect and more richly coloured flowers. In form this 
Odontoglot is somewhat like the splendid O. crispbum apiatum, with the brilliant 
colouring of O. crisbum Franz Masereel. 
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