12 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1903. 
O. c. QUEEN Victoria (fig. 3) is another beautiful variety, which was 
exhibited by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., at the Temple Show in 1897, 
and gained the award of a First-class Certificate. The shape of the flower 
is remarkably regular, the sepals and petals being more equal in breadth 
than in the preceding form. The ground colour is white, with a tinge of 
rose-pink towards the apex of the sepals, and the colour of the blotches is 
bright purple-brown. The plant exhibited bore a very compact spike of 
numerous flowers, and was greatly admired. It is nearly allied to the 
varieties mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the blotches being nearly 
confluent in one, but possesses characters by which it can be distinguished. 
BiG. 3. O.cC, QUEEN VICTORIA. 
The guttatum group of varieties is characterised by having the spots 
smaller than in the preceding, and pretty regularly distributed, the sepals 
and petals also being generally rather narrower. Of these, we may mention 
guttatum and Regina, but there are many others, and Cooksoni may be 
considered a superior variety of this group. And some” form transitions 
between this and other groups. 
The variety maculatum is remarkable for 
having rather few small blotches on the sepals, but more numerous smaller 
spots regularly distributed on the petals. Wrigleyanum is in some respects 
intermediate between this and the purpurascens group, having the sepals 
and petals strongly suffused with rose, and much spotted with a darker 
colour, and there are two or three other allied forms. 
