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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM uwov. var. AUGUSTUM «. ump. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM, AUGUST VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11. 
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p, 10%. 
Var. augustum. Floribus magnis; sepalis petalisque latis, margine satis undulatis, atropurpureo-chermesinis, 
irregulariter lateque albo-marginatis; labello albo, late irregulariterque intense rubro-fusco maculato, disco ad medium 
striis pluribus irregularibus radiantibus flavo-vitellinis ornato ; columna superne atropurpurea. 
Var. augustum L. LInD.; Gard. Chron., ser. 3, XIX, pp. 646 et 655, fig. 106 (1896). — Fourn. des Orchid., 
VII, pp. 99 et 106, fig. 102 (1896). — Ill. Hort., ser. 6, III, pp. 156 et 193, fig. 22 (1896). — Fourn. of Hortic., 
May 28, p. 485, fig. 80 (1896). — Orch. Rev., IV, p. 192 (1896). 
Odontoglossum augustum LinD. in Fourn. des Orchid., VII, p. 100 (1896). 
or the paraphrasing of the Latin diagnosis given above of this wonderful 
novelty, we have borrowed the life-like description published in the 
= Illustration Horticole, owing to the pen of our distinguished colleague, 
Mr. Cu. De Bosscuere : “ The floral divisions are large, of a pearly white 
and of solid texture; in this flower, as painters would say, there is a strength 
which surprises and which is characteristic. 
“ The five divisions are blotched, but blotched so profusely, so brilliantly, 
that we are astonished and enraptured; the blotches are ofa red-claret colour 
which is reflected in the ample white marges of all the divisions. The lip is 
white, with a reddish-brown blotch and yolk-coloured veins, the lip is so beau- 
tiful and characteristic, that the name of augustum, which is fully justified, 
was given to this variety. 
“ When we view the flower in a false light, it strikes as by the deepness 
of its coloration; it is like some butterfly with purple-tinted wings settled on 
a dark green ground. But when we bear it to the light, what a sudden transfor- 
mation takes place! The white shines, the red is resplendent, the flesh becomes 
transparent, the flower is animated, decidedly it is the master-piece of its kind. , 
Exhibited at the celebrated “ Temple Show, , the great annual Exhibition 
of the London Royal Horticultural Society, open from the 19" to the 21* of last 
May, O. crisbum augustum was the champion, ,, 
it obtained the highest award given to Orchids, a First-Class Certificate. 
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“ The great sucess of the “ Show , says Mr. Lucien Linpen, in his 
Fournal des Orchidées, was the O. augustwm that we exhibited and which had 
just flowered for the first time at Messrs. DALLEMAGNE & C°®, Rambouillet, from 
one of our importations dating two years back. It is certainly the most won- 
derful of wonderful Odontoglossum. Everyone declared it superior to O. apiatum, 
