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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM FRANZ MASAREEL. 
By kind permission of M. Jules Hye-Leysen, of Ghent, we are enabled 
to figure this magnificent variety, from a photograph taken of a bloom 
sent by him to Mr. de Barri Crawshay, of Sevenoaks, who has lent it us 
The sepals and petals have the ground 
to reproduce. It is taken life size. 
them 
colour white, but owing to the immense amount of blotching 
being much coloured, there is an appearance o 
beautiful 
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and the external surface 
rose here and there, especially at the points, making a most 
contrast to the solid deep claret-purple markings of the petals, the sepals 
a duller 
crimson-brown shade. The outer band is o 
shade of purple and is surrounded by a clear white margin. The lip is 
being more of a 
Fig. 4. ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM FRANZ MASEREEL. 
white with crimson-purple spots, with disc and crest chrome yellow. 
The column is of the same shade as the markings on the petals, fading 
to brown at the base. This remarkable variety, which stands near to 
O. c. Baroness Schréder, was imported by Mr. Aimé van den Bogaerde, 
of Birmingham, and sold as an imported plant with many others to 
M. Vervaet & Cie., of Ghent, who were fortunate enough to bloom it them- 
selves. The spike appeared at a meeting of the R. H. S. on November 13th, 
1894, when it was awarded a First-class Certificate, and it was again shown 
there on November 26th, 1895. Since then, M. Jules Hye has purchased it 
at a very high figure. It is one of the most beautiful of what may be termed 
the ‘‘ purple” section of blotched crispums. 
