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O. LUTEO-PURPUREUM CRISPATUM, Bchh. /.—A very striking variety, 

 wliicli flowered in the collection of A. E. M. Mundy, Esq., of Shipley Hail, 

 Derby. "We cannot do better than quote Reichenbach's own words : — " It has 

 nearly the whole front half of the lip convoluted into deep folds. It is quite a 

 novel feature, and resembles an old-fashioned ruff." — Xew Grenada. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., 3rd aer., 1880, v. p. 233, f. 41. 



O. LUTEO-PURPUREUM MAESEREELII, Bdib.f.—A. distinct variety, exhibited 

 at the International Exhibition at Ghent in 1838, by M. Maesereel, of Ghent. 

 In growth it resembles the type. Sepals and petals orange yellow ; lip light 

 yellow. 



Fia.—Le Monitcur d'lIoH., 1889, p. 238. 



Syn. — 0. Maexcrcelianum. 



O. LUTEO-PURPUREUM MAGNIF1CUM, Williams et Moore.— A fine and bold 

 variety, producing long spikes; the flowers measure from 3 to 4 inches across ; 

 sepals bright chestnut-brown, having a yellow zone at the base and the apex of 

 the same colour ; petals yellow, having several small and three larger chestnut- 

 brown blotches at the basal part, and a zone of the same colour across its whole 

 breadth about the middle; lip pale yellow, chestnut-brown, with basal part 

 and crest deep yellow. — Neio Grenada. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, vi. t. 2,)-t. 



O. LUTEO-PURPUREUM PRIONOPETALUM See 0. prionopetalum. 



O. LUTEO-PURPUREUM SCEPTRUM, Bchb. /.—The royal or sceptre-bsariug 

 variety of the type, and a plant of wondrous beauty. The sepals are oval, 

 oblong acuminated, toothed, and undulated, deep chestnut -brown margined with 

 yellow ; the petals of the same form as the sepals, irregularly lobed at the edges, 

 yellow, blotched with the same colour as the sepals ; and the oval cordiform 

 lip yellow, with serrated edge and apiculate apex, and having a curved blotch 

 of chestnut-brown in front of the disk. — Neiv Grenada. 



Fig.— L'lU. Hurt., 3rd ser., t. 73 ; OrcUd Album, vii. t. 294. 



O. LYROGLOSSUM, Bclil. f. — This very fine, species is in the way of 

 0. Wilckeanum, but differs in colour. The pseudobulbs are oblong ovate, 

 compressed, diphyllous ; its leaves are oblong ligulate, and its radical scape bears 

 a vigorous raceme, the individual flowers of which arc about 4 inches across ; 

 the sepals and petals are oblong lanceolate, coarsely toothed at the edges, of a, 

 bright yellow heavily blotched with chestnut-brown; the lip is small, much 

 fringed and toothed, similar in shape to that of 0. luieo-purpureum, yellow with 

 a large blotch of chestnut-brown in the centre. The plant is supposed to be 

 a natural hybrid between 0. Pcscatorei and 0. Inten-purpuraum. — Nci<j Grenada. 

 \_Por Illustration, see page 576.] 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., x.S., xvii. p. G32, 1 97, and supp. sheet; Iil., 1880, xxv. 

 p. 77, f. 15. 



O. MACROSPILUM, Bchb.f. — This plant was believed to'be a natural hybrid 

 by Reichenbach, and has the sepals and petals cuneate-lanceolate acute, in the 



