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OECHID-GROWER S. MANUAL. 



O. CRI.SPUM WRIQLEYANUM, HoH.^A most handsome variety, dedicated 

 to E. G. Wrigley, Esq., of Howiok House, Preston. We saw the plant at the 

 Whit- week Show of the Eoyal Botanic Society at Manchester in 1893, when it 

 was exhibited by F. Hardy, Esq., of Tyntesfield, Ashton-upon-Mersey, who was 

 kind enough to send us a spike for figuring in the Orchid Albv-m. The flowers 

 are of fine form and substance ; the sepals, and petals being beautifully veined, 

 margined and suffused with rosy-purple, which gives the flower an altogether 

 unique appearance. — New Grenada. 

 Fig. — Orchid Album, xi. t. 493. 



O. CRISPUM XANTHOTES, Rort.—A variety allied to 0. crispwm hijper- 

 xanthum, the sepals being white spotted with yellow, and the petals pure white ; 

 lip also spotted with yellow. — Neiv Grenada. 



Fig. — Litidenia, vii. t. 312. 



O, CRIST ATELLUM, Bchh.f. — This species is allied to 0. cristatum, and is a 

 very rare plant. It has ovate pseudobulbs of moderate size, ligulate oblong 

 acute leaves, and radical peduncles terminating in racemes of attractive flowers 

 each 21 inches across, in which the roundish oblong-ovate sepals and petals, 

 which are about of equal size, are yellow heavily blotched so as to be nearly 

 covered with chestnut-brown ; the lip is smaller oblong pandurif orm, apiculate, 

 yellow at the base and chestnut-brown in front, furnished with subulate radiate 

 calli on the disk, and a pair of lamellae standing before them. It flowers during 

 the summer months. — Z7. 8. of Colombia. 



Fig. — Orcldd Album, ii. t. 66. 



Syh. — 0. Lelhvianni. 



O. CRISTATUM, Lind.—A. pretty compact-growing and free-flowering 

 species. The pseudobulbs are conical, of a light shining green, and the leaves 



linear-lanceolate and very 

 acute ; the many-flowered 

 radical scape bears a raceme 

 of flowers, which are abouc 

 25 inches across, with lan- 

 ceolate acuminate spread- 

 ing sepals and petals,, and 

 a deflexed lip of the same 

 form, furnished with a 

 multi-partite crest, of which 

 the anterior lobes are 

 largest; the flowers are of 

 a honey-like yellow, with 

 dark brown blotches which 

 nearly cover their whole 

 surface, the petals being 

 distinguished by zig-zag 

 bars of yellow, and the base 

 of the lip being white. 

 There are several varieties of this, some of which"are very deficient in colour. 

 Prof. Reichenbach has distinguished three {Gardeners' Chronicle, 1868, p. 1014), 



ODONTOGIiOSSUM CEISTATUM. 



