142 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



met with under the title of 0. Retchenheimii. O. Lindleyanum 

 grows very much Hke 0. crispum, and has yellow, brown-blotched 

 sepals and petals, and a white lip with brown, purple, and yellow 

 marks. O. Londesboroughianum is a difficult plant to manage ; 

 it has a rambling habit, much like 0. coronarium, needs the 

 warmth of a Cattleya House, plenty of sunshine, and occasionally 

 deigns to give tall spikes of bright yellow flowers that are lightly 

 marked with red-brown. O. maculatum resembles 0. cordatum^ 

 is easily grown, but is hardly so good a plant. O. n^vium has 

 slender spikes of elegant white, purple-spotted flowers, and is a 

 very pretty species. O. nebitlosum produces flowers three inches 

 across, rounded, white, faintly but freely marked at the base of 

 the segments with brown, the marks being deepest at the base of 

 the lip. O. odoratum often passes under the name of 0. gloriosmn^ 

 and at one time the pale-flowered varieties were grouped under 

 the latter name, and the brighter ones under 0. odoratum ; the 

 segments are all narrow, and the colour is some shade of light 

 yellow, with small red-brown markings. It ought to be grown 

 more than it is, if only for the sake of its sweet Hawthorn-like 

 fragrance. 



O. Oerstedii should be grown in shallow pans near the 

 glass, as it loves good light ; its flowers are small, pure white, 

 except for a tiny yellow mark at the base of the lip. The pretty 

 O. pulchellum has white flowers that dispense an odour like that 

 of Hyacinths. O. ramosissimum is an elegant species, bearing 

 numerous spidery, wavy flowers, white, freely spotted with bright 

 purple, on a branching spike two feet or more high. O. 

 Schlieperianum is well described as intermediate between 0. 

 grande and 0. Insleayi^ and should be grown with them. O. 

 TRiPUDiANS has bright red-brown flowers, lightly marked with 

 bright yellow. O. Uro-Skinneri flowers in the Autumn, and 



