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SIKBRECHT AM) WADLEYS CATALOGUE OF 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISI'UM. 
This plant, also known under the names of O. A/exaudy^e s.nd O. Jiluntii, is one of the gems of tlie cool 
house, Orchid since by a litile management its charming flowers may be had all the year round. It is a plant 
which varies to an almost endless extent, no two of the many thousands imported being perhaps exactly alike, 
and very considerable differences in size, coloring or crispness in the flowers constantly presenting itself. In 
good typical forms the sepals and petals are white, ovate or ovale lanceolate^ the petals being much undulated, 
and often fimbriately lootned. The lip is oblong-acuminate, yellow and crested towards the base, beautifully 
crisped at the niargin, and more or less spotted towards the front with blotches of reddish brown. It has been 
very largely imported from Colombia, and in some of its forms is flushed with a lovely tint of rose. 
