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to note that it is the one originally described by Dr. Lindley, in 1845, from 
a dried specimen collected by Hartweg about three years previously, “in 
woods between the villages of Ziquapira and Pacho,” in the province of 
Bogota (Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 1., XV., p. 256). Hartweg recorded on his 
ticket that the inflorescence was sometimes branched and sometimes not, 
and proposed to name the species after Dr. Lindley, which the latter 
quietly ignored. Lindley described it as “a most beautiful species, occasion- 
ally as much as three feet high. Flowers large, yellow with purple centre.” 
This note about the colour was not taken from Hartweg’s specimen, but 
from a copy by Matthews of a drawing from the collection of Ruiz and 
Pavon, by their artist Tafala. What this drawing represents is uncertain, 
but probably not O. crispum, as most of Ruiz and Pavon’s plants are 
Peruvian, and the colour bears no resemblance to any form of that species. 
It probably represents some imperfectly known Peruvian species, which 
will some day be identified, just as the Odontoglossum bicolor from the 
same collection has been. Hartweg’s specimen has a panicle three feet 
high, with five side branches, and about twenty-six flowers (a few of which 
have fallen or been removed), which were certainly white and unspotted. 
The Peruvian one is yellow densely spotted in the centre with purple, and 
except for the broader segments is suggestive of some species with the 
affinity of O. pardinum. Ruiz and Pavon’s drawing of Odontoglossum 
bicolor proved to be very accurate, otherwise the correctness of the 
present drawing might be suspected. 
The form afterwards described by Mr. Bateman as O. Alexandre (Gard, 
Chron.,1864, p. 1083) had an unb hedinfl and larger white flowers 
with broader segments. This had been collected by Weir in the “ gloomy 
forests of Santa Fé de Bogota” at 9,000 feet elevation, and sent to the 
Horticultural Society. A similar form, except for the addition of a large 
purple spot on each sepal, was described by Reichenbach immediatel 
afterwards as O. Bluntii (Bot. Zcit., XXII., p. 415). This had beet 
collected by Blunt for Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., and it was a plant from 
the last-named importation, which had been acquired by Mr. J. Day, of 
Tottenham, that produced the first living flowers seen in Europe. 0. 
crispum is the most popular Orchid in cultivation, and its varieties seem 
almost endless, besides which it hybridises freely with all the three — 
species with which it grows—O. gloriosum, O. luteopurpureum, and O- = 
Lindley and it is interesting to have a figure of the original forth 
for comparison with the numerous finer varieties which have since ap! 
We have never seen so fine an inflorescence as the one here illustrated, and 
it certainly deserved the award given. 
