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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM tint. var. DALLEMAGNEAE +. LIND. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM, Mrs. DALLEMAGNE'S VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. Ig. 
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., II, p. 51. 
Var. Dallemagneae L. Linn. Fourn. des Orch., IV, p. 361. 
he variety we now figure flowered for the first time at the beginning 
of the present year in the fine collection of M. DaLLemaGne, and is of 
a beautiful and distinct character. Its flowers bear large and regular 
spots, of a bright and remarkably contrasted colour. The spots on the petals 
are of a bright, somewhat carmine red, white those on the sepals are chestnut 
brown. All these blotches are large, of an irregular form, and are grouped on the 
centre of each segment. The lip bears a large yellow blotch, extending to two 
thirds of its length, and enhanced with several small spots of a bright red. 
It is with a particular pleasure that I have dedicated this beautiful variety to 
Mrs. DaLtemacne, wife of the well-known orchidist, possessor of several superb 
Orchids which have already been figured in the present work. 
The collection which M. Datiemacne has founded at Rambouillet is not 
only cultivated on a superior way, it is also remarkably rich and contains a 
number of choice varieties and rare species which could scarcely be found in any 
other collection of the same region around Paris. 
Its great value, moreover, is amply attested by numerous premiums obtained 
a few years since at several Exhibitions, especially at the meetings of the 
OxcuipEEnne, of Brussels, and more recently at the great Exhibition of the 
Société Nationale d’Horticulture de France, at Paris, where M. DALLEMAGNE sent 
a magnificent lot of 250 Orchids in flower, for which he was awarded the Grand 
Prix d’honneur, offered by the President of the French Republic. 
L. L. 
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