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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM STEVENSII. 
THIS superb variety appeared in the collection of the Duke of Sutherland, 
at Trentham, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticural 
Society on March 14th, 1882, when it recived a First-class Certificate. The 
Gardener's Chronicle report of that meeting (1882, xvii., p. 378) records it as 
follows :—‘‘ Odontoglossum crispum var. Stevensii, from Mr. Stevens, 
Trentham, a form with flowers measuring 3 inches across; sepals 
oblong-lanceolate, petals of the same form but waved at the edges, heavily 
barred and spotted with brown; lip oblong, spotted, with a clear yellow 
Fic. 47. ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM STEVENSII. 
disc.” It was afterwards figured in the Orchid Album (iii., t. 127), as O. 
Alexandre Stevensii, when it was remarked, ‘‘the sepals and petals are 
white heavily spotted and blotched with pale sienna brown, and 
the lip is white, having a large blotch of the same colour on the 
anterior part, and numerous smaller spots towards the base, where the 
yellow disc is prominent and adds life to the colouring.” It was probably 
exhibited under the latter name, being so marked in the list of R. H. S, 
