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produces its white and purple flowers during the winter, and 

 lasts long in beauty. Is best gi'o\\Ti on a block, but should 

 always be kept moist. 



0. Fiossii majus. — This is a superb variety of the preceding ; 

 the growth is somewhat more robust, and the flowers are 

 vastly superior, often measuring three inches and upwards 

 in diameter, and two or three being frequently borne upon 

 each spike ; sepals white ; petals also white, but beautifully 

 striped with transverse bars of pui'plish-crimson ; lip large, 

 cordate, and pure white, the column being in some varieties 

 purple, in others yellow. It blooms during mid-winter, 

 lasting a very long time in full beauty. One of the finest and 

 largest varieties of this plant I ever saw was flowered by E. G. 

 Wrigley, Esq., of Bury, Lancashire. Native of Mexico. 



0. rubescens. — Another of the many small-flowered cool 

 Orchids, for which we are indebted to the late Mr. Skinner. 

 A dwarf-gi'owing kind ; flowering in autumn ; the sepals and 

 petals are blush, spotted with crimson ; the lip is white and 

 very prett3\ It is a native of Nicaragua. 



0. Fiuckerianum. — A new and handsome species, named 

 in honour of the late Sigismund Rucker, Esq., in whose 

 collection it first flowered. Sepals and petals creamy white, 

 bordered with deep violet, and spotted on the inner surface 

 with brown ; the lip is yellow at the base, and has two or 

 three chestnut brown blotches upon it. This is a very distinct 

 and desirable plant. Native of New Grenada. 



0. Scldieperianum. — This plant was confounded with 0. 

 Insleayi for a long time, and in growth it certainly resembles 

 that plant very much ; the flowers are, however, very distinct ; 

 sepals and petals soft light yellow, faintly blotched with a 

 darker yellow ; lip same colour, somewhat small. It flowers 

 towards the end of summer, and not during the winter 

 months. 



