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The flower spike comes up with the young growth, bearing 

 five or six large flowers, and becomes pendulous as they 

 expand ; the sepals and petals are clear white, thickly studded 

 with spots of reddish brown ; lip difi'erent only in the spots 

 being larger, with a faint tinge of yellow. 



0. nehulosum candididiun. — A very pretty delicate variety 

 of the previous plant, precisely like it, saving in having the 

 sepals and petals pui'e white, and entirely destitute of the 

 spotting or clouding of reddish brown. This we do not con- 

 sider so good as the original form of the species, but it is very 

 distinct, and well worth a place in every collection. 



0. Nevadense. — A distinct species, producing long spikes ; 

 bulbs dark green, leaves narrow at base ; flowers large ; 

 sepals and petals chocolate brown margined and tipped 

 with yellow, and streaked with the same colour ; lip white, 

 middle lobe cordate and slightly serrate at the edge, 

 side lobes spotted with bright brown inside. I saw this plant 

 well flowered with Mr. Spier's, gardener to Sir Trevor Law- 

 rence. Native of New Grenada. 



0. odoratum. — This species produces a branching panicle 

 of flowers, which are in the sepals and petals golden yellow 

 blotched with brown, and crisp at the edges ; lip of the same 

 colour, white towards the base. It blooms during the winter 

 months, and, as its name implies, is sweet scented. Native 

 of New Grenada. 



0. Pescatorei. — A magnificent species which grows ten 

 inches high, with small pseudobulbs, and leaves a foot in 

 length. It produces branching spikes of richly ornamental 

 flowers during April and May ; sepals and petals white, with 

 a shade of rose in them ; lip white, yellow, and rose, pro- 

 duces as many as a hundred flowers on a spike. We showed 

 a plant at the Brussels Show with one hundred flowers 

 expanded at one time. When grown in this way it produces 



