114 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM VARIETIES. 
WE have received from M. Jules Hye-Leysen, of Ghent, a series of five very 
beautiful varieties of Odontoglossum crispum. The first is O. c. HYEANUM, 
and is remarkable both for the large amount of colouring on the 
segments and its richness. The petals are an inch broad, and the sepals 
a little narrower, while the rich crimson-purple blotches of both are 
almost entirely confluent into one, leaving a small white area at the base, 
another at the apex, a narrow white margin, and a few irregular white 
markings here and there in the coloured area. On the lip the blotches are 
smaller and less confluent. The flower measures 3} inches from tip to tip of 
the petals, and is one of the most brilliant which we have yet seen. O. C. 
CAPARTIANUM has much improved since it was figured in our pages in 
1894 (li., pp. 241, 242, fig. 26), as it now measures 3} inches in diameter 
across the petals. The markings are bright cinnamon, and very similar in 
shape to what they were when our photograph was taken, though the petals 
are more alike, while the ground colour is suffused and somewhat splashed 
with rose, the former chiefly on the sepals. O. c. WRIGLEYANUM is 
rather larger, and has much rounder blotches, those in the centre of 
the three upper segments being confluent, with more white at the base. 
O. c. PUNCTATO-VIOLACEUM is much like a large O. c. roseum, the rosy 
suffusion slightly inclining to purple, especially near the centre, where 
also occur a few small darker dots. The petals are 1} inches in diameter. 
and the sepals correspondingly broad. O. c. Ghislaine is a very pretty 
form, with white ground and light chestnut blotches, three on each sepal, 
very large and somewhat transverse, and those on the petals forming a 
kind of zone, but larger and confluent towards the apex. They form a 
very beautiful group, and also afford evidence of excellent culture. 
A beautiful flower of O. c. Cooksoni is sent from the collection of 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, taken from part 
of the type plant figured in the Orchid Album (vol. iii., t. 118). It is a 
large form, of excellent shape, with broad white sepals and petals, heavily 
blotched with deep chestnut-brown. The lip has a large blotch in front 
of the crest, and several small spots on either side, and the principal 
blotch on the sepals is also very large, the remainder, as also those on 
the petals, being smaller. It is very beautiful. 
Two flowers of the handsome O. c. ARTHURIANUM are sent from the 
collection of W. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst. The shape 
is very good, and the red-purple markings on the sepals and petals are 
more or less confluent into one large irregular blotch, having a white base 
and margin. The blotch on the lip is very small with a few additional 
spots. F.-c. C., R.H.S., March 10, 1896. 
