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HE question as to whether Odontoglossum crispum Lehmannii may not 
be identical with the original O. crispum with a branched spike 
-described by Lindley, is raised by a correspondent, for the character is not, 
or very rarely, seen in the fine Pacho type. We believe the two are 
distinct, for it has been universally believed that O. crispum Lehmannii was 
a different local race, though very little was known about it until the 
Lehmann Herbarium became available. The locality of the original O. 
crispum is not in doubt. It was collected by Hartweg, in 1842, ‘‘ in woods 
between the villages of Zipaquira and Pacho,” and the fine specimen sent 
by him to Lindley, from which the species was originally described (Am. 
Nat. Hist., ser. 1, xv. p. 256), is preserved in the Herbarium of the latter. 
It is a very fine specimen, having an inflorescence about three feet high, 
with five side branches and an aggregate of about twenty-six flowers, with 
the characteristic shape and breadth of segments, and which were evidently 
white and unspotted. There is a note in the original description that the 
flowers were ‘‘ yellow with purple centres,” but this was taken from a 
Peruvian drawing by Matthews, which is preserved in Lindley’s Herbarium, 
and, though labelled “O. crispum,” has nothing whatever to do with 
Hartweg’s plant, though what species it represents has never been cleared 
up. It is recorded on Hartweg’s original ticket, by the collector himself, 
that “‘ the inflorescence is sometimes branched and sometimes not.” This 
should set at rest any doubts as to the locality and character of the original 
‘O. crispum. 
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| ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM anb var. LEHMANNII. 
The illustration on the opposite page represents a fine plant of what we 
believe agrees with Lindley’s type, and was taken from a particularly well- 
grown specimen from the collection of Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, 
Dorking, which received a Cultural Commendation from the R.H.S. in 
March, 1896. The panicle bore nine side branches and an aggregate of 
sixty-five flowers, shown, of course, greatly reduced in size. 
O. crIsPpUM LEHMANNII was originally described by Reichenbach in 1880 
(Gard. Chron., 1880, i. p. 712), as follows: ‘‘ This is a rather curious plant, 
much smaller than the Bogotese one, rather narrow leaved, and with a 
distinct tendency to produce branched inflorescences as that herculanean 
plant does in Sir Trevor’s Orchid paradise. Mr. F. C. Lehmann, the 
successful discoverer of this variety, saw as many as fifty flowers in one 
panicle. There is usually purple and brown tint in the flowers.” The 
habitat was not stated. 
The history was afterwards given by Lehmann himself (Gard. Chrom, 
1883, il. p. 395), partly in reply to a suggestion (the reference to which is 
