at brown
blotch.

_Edithae._--Rosy white of sepal and petal, bordered with yellow and barred
with chestnut; lip pale yellow, much deeper at the base, with chestnut
spots in the centre.

_Crispum Our Empress._--A remarkable variety. Very large, rose colour,
heavily blotched with reddish purple; lip paler, covered with brown spots.

_Crispum Woodlandsense._--A superb example of the 'round-flowering' type.
Sepals and petals very broad, densely spotted with cinnamon-brown; lip
short, broad, similarly spotted.

_Crispum magnificum._--Sepals pale rose; petals and lip very faintly
flushed; the whole covered with brown spots.

_Bictoniense album._--The ordinary Bictoniense is pretty enough when the
lower blooms on the densely clothed spike can be persuaded to last until
those above them open. This uncommon sport is much more effective, with
sepals and petals of a lively brown, and broad lip of purest white.

_Facetum._--A good example of this catches the eye at once. Ground colour
pale yellow, almost hidden by great brown bars upon the sepals. The petals
are sharply freckled with brown, and up the middle runs a series of dark
red dots. Lip similarly freckled above, with a large splash of brown in
front; the lip handsomely fringed.

_Cristatellum._--Rather small and not impressive, but valuable for its
scarcity. The yellow ground colour shows itself only in a few narrow
streaks upon sepal and petal, and in the base of the lip. Elsewhere it is
hidden beneath layers of chestnut.

_Hallii magnificum._--A variety finer in all respects than the common
type. Sepals brown, save the yellow tips, and a few yellow lines; petals
yellow, with two large brown blots. The fringed lip also is yellow, with
two brown blots.

_Madrense._--Named after its place of birth, the Sierra Madre, in Mexico.
The plant is not uncommon, but it does not flower willingly, as a rule.
Sepals and petals are white, with a double purple blotch at the base; lip
small, bright orange.

_Polyxanthum magnificum._--The grandest variety of a species always
treasured. In colour deepest 'old gold,' with four or five great blots of
chestnut on the sepals, and as many spots at the base of the petals. The
lip has a shallow fringe and a broad splash in the centre.

_Wallisii._--Small. Sepals and petals dusky yellow, with a long straight
bar of chocolate down the middle. Lip white at the base, with small rosy
streaks; the disc rosy, edged with white.

_Hallii leuco