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duced. In its pseudobulbs, leaves, and inflorescence it resembles the typical 

 plant. The flowers are produced in well-furnished racemes, and are of large 

 though perhaps not the largest size, broad and well filled out as to form, and 

 Tery gaily coloured. The sepals are broadly ovate with the edges undulated, 

 and the base very little narrowed, white, with about two large central blotches 

 of deep brownish-crimson, and a row of smaller oblong blotches outside these, 

 all being enclosed by a belt of purplish-rose some distance within the margin, 

 which preserves its pure white character. The petals are also ovate, but con- 

 siderably broader and more decidedly undulated, the margins being also toothed; 

 the colour resembles that of the sepals, but there is frequently only one central 

 blotch, which is then larger than those on the sepals ; the lip is oblong, broad, 

 and well displayed, white with yellow disk, the surface marked by a few crimson 

 splashes over the central parts, and pencillings near the edge, with the usual 

 radiating lines round the base of the column. Tt is certainly one of the hand- 

 somest forms that has yet appeared. The plant is now in the rich collection of 

 Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, of Staines. — New Grenada. 



YlG.—Flm: mid Pom.., 1884, p. 177, t. 623 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 799, f. 151. 

 Syn. — 0. criapuin mirahile. 



O. CRISPUM VIRQINALE, Williams. ~'\!\as, is a pure white variety, having 

 very large flowers of fine substance, without either spot or tinge of pink in the 

 sepals and petals ; the disk and crest of the lip yellow as in the type. It was 

 exhibited by us at South Kensington in November, 1882, when it received a 

 first-class certificate. — New Grenada. 



O. CRISPUM WARNERI, Moore.— K magnificent form of this beautiful 

 species, exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's Exhibition in 1869. It 

 is a large-growing vigorous form, with long close secund racemes of very large 

 blossoms, upwards of 3 inches in diameter, having the sepals white stained with 

 rose, and spotted on the central area with about half a dozen oblong spots of 

 chestnut-brown; the petals very broad, dentate at the edges, pure white; and 

 the lip, which is large and densely frilled, white stained at the base with rich 

 yellow, in front of which is a large squarish patch of bright chestnut-brown. 

 This fine variety has been well figured by Mr. Warner, in the work cited below. 

 — New Grenada. 



"FlQ.— Warner, Sel. Orcli. PI., ii. t. 23. 



O. CRISPUM WILSONII, Williams. — A lovely form which flowered in the 

 collection of the late A. Wilson, Esq., of Sheffield. Flowers beautifully coloured ; 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, white suffused with rose, spotted and blotched with 

 chestnut-brown ; petals ovate, undulated, white suffused with rose, and heavily 

 spotted with chestnut-brown in the upper part ; lip slightly shorter than that 

 of the normal plant, ovate, toothed at the edge, white, spotted in front with 

 chestnut-browii ; column club-shaped, chestnut-brown.^jVeio Grenada. 



FiGt.—OrcJM Album, ix. t. 387. 



O. CRISPUM WOLSTENHOLMIAE, BM. /.—Another beaiitiful variety, 

 dedicated to Mrs. Wolstenholme, sister to the late J. Day, Esq., at one time one 

 of the most enthusiaistic Orchid growers. The sepals and petals are pure white, 

 spotted with rich brown and bordered with mauve. — New Grenada. 



