THE ORCHID REVIEW. 17 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM QUEEN VICTORIA. 
IN continuation of the series of Odontoglossum portraits given in these 
pages, we now give a figure of the beautiful O. crispum Queen Victoria, 
which was one of the prominent features of the Temple Show in 1897, on 
which occasion it was exhibited by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., and gained 
the award of a First-class Certificate. The flower is of excellent shape, with 
broad, flat sepals and petals, and the lip somewhat pandurate, owing to the 
sides being reflexed about the middle. The petals are white, and the sepals 
tinged with rose-pink towards the apex. Each of them bears a very large 
irregular blotch below the middle, of a bright, purple-brown tint, anda few 
smaller spots near the base. The lip bears a smaller central blotch, and a 
regular row of smaller spots on either side of the crest. Besides the 
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individual excellence of the flower, the plant was extremely well grown, and 
bore a compact raceme of numerous flowers, forming altogether a charming 
picture, which fully justified the award made by the Orchid Committee. It 
is remarkable how extremely polymorphic this beautiful species is, and 
what a number of really distinct varieties there are in cultivation. There 
are variations in the shape and breadth of the segments, the tint of the 
ground colour, and, in the spotted forms, in the size, arrangement, and 
colour of the spots, and in this respect, as in others, it stands unrivalled in 
the genus. The photograph here reproduced was taken by Mr. G. T’Anson. 
