THE ORCHID REVIEW. 81 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM IMPERATOR. 
A MAGNIFICENT form of Odontoglossum crispum has appeared in the 
collection of John S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishop’s Waltham, wkich is 
represented in the annexed figure. The photograph reproduced has been 
kindly sent by Mr. Moss, who states that it is exactly natural size, and the 
illustration has been prepared from it entirely by photographic process, but has 
been reduced, however, f-inch in diameter during the process. Otherwise 
it is an exact fac-simile of the flower, with the single exception of colour. 
The sepals are very broad, and the petals quite exceptional in this respect. 
Fig. 5.—ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM IMPERATOR. 
Both sepals and petals are suffused with rose-pink, which does not come out 
inthe photograph, and this colour is still darker on the back of the 
The markings are red-brown, and in other respects speak for 
A well-known expert has pronounced it to be the finest form 
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of O. crispum which he has ever seen, and if any of our readers has a form 
which surpasses it we hope he will forward a flower. In form, colour and 
markings it is excellent, and Mr. Moss must be congratulated upon the 
possession of such a superb variety. It has far broader petals than O. c. 
Rex, figured at page 241 of our second volume, though approaching it in 
some respects, 
