JANUARY, 1903.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 11 
O. c. IMPERATOR (fig. 2) is a very handsomely blotched form which 
appeared in the collection of John S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishops 
Waltham, in 1895. The shape is rounder than in O. c. Luciani, and the 
petals are extremely broad, but the markings are not quite so heavy. The 
sepals and petals are suffused with rose-pink, which is darker on the back 
of the flower, and the blotches are dark red-brown in colour. It is a 
superb variety, and takes a high rank among the heavily blotched forms of 
the species. It bears some resemblance to O. c. Rex, from the collection 
of Baron Schréder, which was figured at page 241 of our second volume. 
Fic. 2. O. c. IMPERATOR. 
Nearly allied to the foregoing we find a group of handsome varieties, in 
which the markings take the form of a single very large irregular blotch on 
each segment, with occasionally one or two smaller detached spots; of 
which may be mentioned nobilius, augustum, Hrubyanum, Duvalii, and 
ferrierense, which differ from each other in certain respects. Mundyanum 
is another superb form in which the blotches are rather less confluent, and 
the segments very broad, while the superb variety Pittianum is also nearly 
allied, but the blotches are rather more broken up than in nobilius. Ail 
the seven varieties just mentioned have been figured in various horti- 
cultural works. 
