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but is very similar in other details of shape and markings. It flowered in 
January of the present year. A third is the variety of O. X mirum noted 
on page 27, which is certainly a charming thing. A fourth photo is labelled 
O. X WATSONIANUM, and is from O. X loochristiense X O. crispum tessel- 
latum. The flower is large, finely-formed, and very handsomely marked, 
the sepals each bearing a couple of large blotches, and the petals numerous 
smaller ones. The two remaining seedlings are from O. X Wilckeanum 
x O. x loochristiense, and are both handsomely blotched, though 
differing in the breadth of the segments and the size of the spots. All the 
three latter flowered in January of the present year. We cannot, of course, 
describe the colour from photographs, but we may receive flowers later. 
Fig. 7. ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM VAR. TRIOMPHE DE MooRTEBEEK. 
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Our figure represents the handsome O. crispum var. Triomphe de 
Moortebeek, and is reproduced from the photograph mentioned last month 
(p. 27), and as the characters were given from a living flower, we need not 
repeat them. We may congratulate M. Linden on such marked success, 
and venture to express the hope that he will continue to record the exact 
parentage of his seedlings, whatever their quality, as it is of the greatest 
interest in connection with the origin of the various natural hybrids and 
blotched “‘ crispums ” which are now so highly prized. It isa question of 
great biological interest. We want to know more about the range of 
variation between seedlings from the same capsule, and it does not the least 
matter if some of them are of inferior horticultural merit. No one expects 
them to be all ‘‘ plums,” even if the choicest varieties only are used as 
