550 orchid-grower's manual, 



O. CRINITUM, Rchh.f. — ^According to the late Professor ReichenbacH', the 

 present species is quite distinct from any other Odontoglossum. It was dis- 

 covered by Roezl in Eastern New Grenada, and later by Wallis. The flowers, 

 of the size of 0. odoratum, are produced in racemes ; sepals and petals lanceolate 

 acuminate, ochre-yellow with dark cinnamon spots ; lip trilobed, white spotted 

 with brown ; anterior lobe triangular, the margin somewhat undulate, and 

 toothletted. It was first flowered by J. Broome, Esq., at Wood Lawn, Didsbury, 

 Manchester. — New Crrenada. 



Fig. — Xenia Orchidacca, ii. t. 191, ff. 4-6. 



O. CRINITUM SAPPHIRATUM, Rchh. /.—Much superior to the type in 

 shape and colour ; the lip is white, covered with bluish-mauve spots, the petals 

 and column are also tinted with mauve at the base. It was flowered by A. H. 

 Smee, Esq., of The Grange, Carshalton. — Nev^ Grenada. 



Via.— Juurn. of liort., 1892, xxiv. p. 197, f. 29. 



O. CRISPUM, Lindl. — One of the most beautiful and most useful of Orchids, 

 which from its identity with 0. crispwm, not having been at first discovered, and 

 from its having when originally introduced in ,a living state received the 

 popular name of 0. Alexandrae, is perhaps even yet better known in gardens 

 by this latter designation. It is a charming addition to our collections, and one 

 which afiords many variations, ranging from a pure white to yellow and rose, and 

 inclnding various highly spotted forms. The pseudobulbs are oblong ovate 

 ..compressed, with a pair of ligulate oblong acute leaves, and radical scapes 



from the axils of accessory leaves, bearing 



racemes or panicles of the lovely flower.s, which 



often have the ovate lanceolate sepals flushed 



with rose, the broadly ovate pure white petals 



being much undulated, and the oblong ovate lip 



much crisped and acuminate, with a rich yellow 



stain over the diskal port;ion, and having one or 



two small red-brown spots about the centre, and 



a series of radiating lines of the same colour at 



the base. This is regarded as a fair example of 



the species, but, as just noted, there are many 



varieties, of the plant, some much finer and larger 



than others, though very few prove" altogether 



inferior. It is a most graceful plant, producing 



its lovely spikes of bloom freely when kept quite 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CBiSPUM cool, and lasting in beauty a long tifne if the 



(much reduced). flowers are kept free from damp. This indeed 



is the case with all white or light-coloni'ed 



flowers when placed in a cool house ; if they become damp they soon get 



spotted, and so lose their beauty. ' The form which originally received the 



name of 0. Alexandrae had nearly pure white flowers, with a bright golden 



blotch on the lip. The plant called 0. Bluniii is a form with white sepals and 



petals shaded with rose and richly spotted with purplish-crimson,- the lip also 



being profusely spotted. ■ ' 



We may repeat that this is the most useful of all the Odontoglots, indeed of 



