Marcu-APRiL, 1919.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 53 
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HE annexed figure represents a particularly fine variety of Odonto- 
glossum maculatum, which was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society by the late W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, 
Stone, in July, r901, and was awarded a First-class Certificate. It is 
characterised by the exceptional breadth of the segments, which gives the 
flower an almost perfect shape. The inflorescence bore eight flowers, over 
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ODONTOGLOSSUM MACULATUM THOMPSONIANUM. 
SULATUM V MPSONIANUM. 
Fig. 5. ODONTOGLOSSUM MACULATUM VAR. THOMPSONIANUM 
are uniformly suffused with dark brown, 
the petals light yellow with a zone of dark brown blotches at the extreme 
base, and the blotches on the undulate lip are very regularly disposed. 
The figure is reproduced from a photograph of one of the flowers exhibited. 
In the typical form of the species the sepals are narrower and distinctly 
acuminate. The history of the species and that of the allied O. cordatum 
ate given at pp. 43-44. 
three inches across. The sepals 
