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produced on a much -branched spike ; sepals and petals bright 

 flame colour, spotted with brown ; lip similar in colour. 

 Native of Peru. 



0. sarcodes. — A fine species, with handsome flowers, from 

 Brazil, and producing its branching spikes of yellow and 

 crimson blossoms during March and April. . This plant has 

 been scarce, but this last year there has been some large 

 importations, and no doubt we shall get many varieties of this 

 showy Orchid ; it will do either on a block or in a pot, with 

 peat and moss. Native of Brazil. 



0. serratum. — A pretty species, which should be grown in 

 rough fibrous peat, and placed in the cool-house. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are oval, some six inches high or more, dark green, 

 bearing rigid acute leaves of the same colour ; spike twining 

 and branched, from six to twelve feet long, bearing many 

 large flowers, which are bright chocolate brown, margined with 

 yellow ; sepals much crisped at the margins, the lower ones 

 much lengthened out ; petals smaller and connivent ; lip 

 small. This plant is sometimes called 0. diadem a. Native 

 of Peru. 



0. sessile. — A pretty species of compact growth from Santa 

 Martha ; it produces its slender spikes of pale yellow flowers, 

 spotted in the centre with pale cinnamon colour ; blooms 

 during the spring months, and vnll do well in the Cattle}/ a 

 house ; it lasts in bloom fom- weeks. 



0. spliacelatum majus. — A good free-growing Orchid, from 

 Honduras, producing its long branching spikes of flowers in 

 April and May, lasting thi'ee or four weeks in beauty. The 

 colour of the flower is yellow, barred with dark brown ; it is 

 best grown in a pot with peat or moss. 



0. splendidum. — This is a grand and very distinct plant. It 

 has short roundish dark green pseudobulbs, which support a 

 single erect thick and fleshy deep green leaf; the spike is 



