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which are transversely barred with brown at the base ; lip 

 white, with a few streaks of yellow near the base. Native 

 of Mexico. 



0. gloriosum. — This, like many more of the family, would 

 appear to seed freel}^ in its native country and produce 

 numberless varieties, some of which are good. It is a plant 

 of good constitution, and easily gi'own. It produces a long 

 branched spike. The flowers vary much in size and colour, 

 but they are mostly yellow, clouded with gi'een, and spotted 

 with a lively brown. It is a native of New Grenada. 



O. (jrande, — A remarkably handsome species from Gua- 

 temala ; produces its very large flowers on an upright spike 

 during the autumn. The flowers are mottled and striped with 

 brown and yellow, like the back of a tiger ; the lip white and 

 purple. It remains in perfection three or four weeks, if the 

 flowers are kept dry. This plant, which is one of the finest 

 of the genus, should be grown in a pot. 



0. c/rande mcKjniJicum . — In habit of growth this resembles 

 the preceding, but it bears sixteen flowers upon a spike, and 

 these have the most splendid and brilliant markings, and 

 measure seven inches in diameter ; lip also large in propor- 

 tion. This plant I saw in the collection of the late T. Dawson, 

 Esq., and it well deserves the name of wagnijicum. With it 

 there were in bloom fifty to a hundred plants of 0. grande, 

 forming a really beautiful display. 



0. H(dlii. — A charming variety, belonging to the 0. luteo- 

 jmrpureum section, but having superior and more beautiful 

 flowers than any variety of that species I ever saw. The pseu- 

 dobulbs are about three inches high ; leaves upwards of a foot 

 long, and two inches broad, light green ; spike produced from 

 the base of the bulbs, many-flowered ; flowers measuring about 

 four inches across ; sepals and petals bufi*, spotted and barred 

 with reddish broT\Ti ; lip large, white, blotched with purplish 



