JANUARY, 1903. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 13 
O. c. FRANZ MASEREEL (fig. 4) is a magnificent variety from the 
collection of M. Jules Hye-Leysen, of Ghent. It originally flowered with 
MM. Vervaet & Cie., of Ghent, who had purchased it, with others, as an 
imported plant from M. Aimé van den Bogaerde, of Birmingham. It was 
exhibited by MM. Vervaet at a meeting of the R.H.S. on November 13th, 
1894, and was awarded a First-class Certificate. The shape of the flower 
is perfect, and the ground colour is more or less suffused with rose-pink, 
while the heavy and very regular markings are deep claret-purple on the 
petals, but on the sepals they are rather more of a crimson-brown shade. 
The petals are more strongly toothed than in some of the allied varieties. 
Fic. 4. O. c. FRANZ MASEREEL. 
This variety differs from most of the heavily blotched forms previously 
mentioned in the regularity of the markings, which are distributed over the 
segments almost in hieroglyphic fashion, and hence it is difficult to compare 
it with any other. The variety Baroness Schréder, however, has still more 
heavily marked flowers, of somewhat similar colour. With Ashworth- 
ianum, too, it has some affinity, but in that the blotches are not so dark, 
and more suffused into the ground colour. 
A comparison of all the heavily blotched forms of Odontoglossum 
crispum side by side would be extremely interesting, and help us to under- 
stand their differences better than at present. Several are known only from 
description, and some of the figures are not very accurate. Moreover the 
markings in some cases vary somewhat in different seasons. 
