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the petals, and about intermediate between the two parents in shape. The 
ground colour is white, the sepals bearing two or three large irregular 
red-brown blotches, and the petals about six to nine smaller ones. The 
lip is somewhat pandurate, similarly blotched, and the crest shows a 
decided approach to that of O. luteopurpureum in shape. It has the 
appearance of a careful and accurate representation, which Mr. Ireland, 
who sent the flowers to Reichenbach, fully confirms. 
A very charming form has just flowered in the collection of 
R. Wigfull, Esq., of Sheffield (gr. Mr. Lucas). It most resembles O. 
crispum in shape, but has a light yellow ground, with numerous red-brown 
blotches, those near the base of the petals being broken up into small 
spots. The side teeth of the crest are short, but one on either side of 
the central pair is much better developed. The flowers are rather small, 
being under three inches broad across the petals—which may arise from 
the plant being weak—but the colour and very regular spotting are most 
effective. 
A flower from the collection of Mrs. Briggs Bury, Bank House, 
Accrington, has a white ground, very regularly and heavily blotched with 
chestnut-brown. It is quite intermediate in shape, but the lip is rather 
narrow, and the crest approximates to the luteopurpureum type. It 1s 
a very striking and handsome variety. 
A plant exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence at the R. H. S. meeting 
on March r4th, under the name of O. crispum maculosum, is a form of 
this hybrid, being quite typical in the lip and crest. The colour 1s 
white, with large blotches of deep red-brown. A flower has been kindly 
sent by Mr. Crawshay. 
Two very interesting forms have just flowered in the collection of 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, both of which have the 
short broad segments of the crispum type. The one called var. Yellow 
Gem has a light yellow ground, tinged with rose-purple on the sepals, @ 
single, small, chestnut spot on the petals, a larger one on the dorsal 
sepal, and two or three on the lateral sepals. The lateral teeth of the 
crest are rather more developed than in O. crispum, and thus there is 
good ground for considering it as a hybrid. The one called var. Princess 
Victoria has a whiter ground, tinged with light yellow, and many smaller 
red-brown spots and blotches on each segment, and this also has the 
lateral teeth of the crest rather too prominent for typical crispum, and 
thus, I think, must be classed as a form of the present hybrid, which 
1s even more polymorphic than has been supposed. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
