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all Orchids, and one cannot have too many of it, so useful is it for every 

 purpose for which flowers are grown. This plant may be said to be a perpetual 

 bloomer, flowering as it does at different times of the year as the bulbs are 

 completed. In fact, where a collection contains a number of specimens of this 

 plant, one may always depend upon having a supply of blossom at any season 

 of the year, the greatest number of flowers, however, will be found to present 

 themselves from early in February to the end of April. So useful is this 

 Orchid for many purposes, that many collectors have hundreds and some 

 thousands in their collections. — yew Grenada: Bogota, at an altitude of 7,000 

 to 8,000 feet. 



Fig. — OfcJiid Alhum, i. t. i' ; Jenitings, OivJi.,t. 26 ; Floral Mag., t. 343 ; Bateman, 

 Mnn. Odont., tt. 14, 19; Flure des Surres, t. 1B52 (_Blv/ntii); V OrcliidopUile, 188.5, 

 p. 132 (plate), f. 1 ; Lindenin, i. t. 48 ; VcUoh\i Man. Orrli. PL, i. pp. 24, 25, and 29 ; 

 Gartcnjiura, 1887, t. 1256 ; Revuii Hurt. Beige, 1888, p. 97 (plate) ; Reickcnhacliia, i. 1. 1. 



Syn. — 0. Ali'xandrac ; 0. Bhintii. 



O. CRISPUM AMESIANUM, IfoW.— A variety with handsome and bold flowers, 

 which measure nearly 5 inches across ; the sepals are broadly-lanceolate flushed 

 with bright rosy-crimson, having in the centre two or three large irregular 

 blotches of rich reddish-brown, and the two lateral ones have besides a few smaller 

 ones of the same colour near the margin ; petals broadly rhomboid, with 

 undulated margins, white with rich chocolate-brown spots confluent into a 

 central clearly defined blotch. 



Fig.— J"yM)-«. ofHoH., 1891, xxii. p. 361, f. 66. 



O. CRISPUM AUREUM, Jforf.— One of the best yellow varieties of O.crispum 

 we have yet seen. The sepals and petals are of a deep lemon-yellow, the sepals 

 spotted with brown; and the lip is yellow, having two brown spots on the 

 anterior part. This variety was exhibited by F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., 

 Biokley, at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting in February, 1884, and 

 was awarded a first-class certificate. — ]S!ew Orenada. 



O. CRISPUM BALLANTINEI, Bchb. /.—A fine variety, having the sepals 

 almost covered with a large blotch of reddish-brown, petals with one or more 

 smaller spots of the same colour, and lip similarly spotted. It was named 

 after Mr. H. Ballantine, the energetic gardener of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder. 

 — Neii> Grenada. 



O. CRISPUM BONNYANUM, Rort.—A distinct and beautiful form flowered 

 by Mr. Bonny, late of Hackney, in 1883. The flowers are bold in form ; sepals 

 broad, tinted with rose, having a lai-ge chestnut-brown blotch in the centre ; 

 petals white, lip white, with a lai-ge pale-brown blotch on the lower portion and 

 four or five small spots near the margin. — New Grenada. 



O. CRISPUM BOWMANII, Bchh.f.—A very handsome variety, flowered in 

 1880 by F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C. Flowers 3 to 3J inches in diameter ; sepals 

 flushed with deep rose colour, and irregularly blotohed;with deep rosy-purple, 

 broadly margined with white; petals white, deeply serrate at the margin, 

 spotted and streaked in the median portion with rosy-purple. — New Qi-enada. 



