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for a suspended pan ; it rarely exceeds six inches in height, but its 

 spikes are a foot or more long, drooping, and bear a number ot 

 closely set red-brown, yellow marked flowers. 



O. PULCHELLUM is a dainty plant that flowers in early Summer ; 

 its spikes are rather more than a foot high, and the small flowers 

 are white, charmingly flushed with pink. 



O. BARCODES is a showy species, and its spikes, from one to two 

 yards long, are shortly branched and carry a great number of large, 

 yellow-lipped flowers, the sepals and petals being red-brown edged 

 with yellow. 



O. SPHACELATUM is another fine species for an amateur to grow. 

 Its flowers are not more than an inch across, but they are produced 

 in large numbers on branched spikes that rise from three to five 

 feet high. The colour is bright red-brown, with bars and tips of 

 golden yellow, the yellow lip having a red-brown mark near 

 its base. 



O. SPLENDIDUM is a Sturdy, Winter-flowering species ; each 

 pseudo-bulb bears a large, stout, leathery leaf, and the spikes rise 

 about two feet high. The flowers are of good size, with a large, 

 flat, yellow lip and greenish yellow, brown-marked sepals and 

 petals. 



O. TiGRiNUM resembles 0. splendidum^ and bears yellow 

 flowers, margined with red-brown, on branching spikes two or 

 three feet high. 



O. VARicosUM is a beautiful species that flowers in Autumn 

 and Winter. It has nodding spikes two to five feet long, that 

 bear quantities of bright flowers. The sepals and petals are 

 yellow, barred with bright brown, while the golden-yellow lip 

 has a small red-brown stain near the crest. O. varicosum rogersii 

 is far more popular than the species, and is altogether larger and 

 finer, the lip often exceeding two inches in width. 



