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spikes every year : it has been grown from a small piece, 

 which shows that it gets the proper treatment. This plant is 

 still very rare, those which have been imported and sold for it 

 having often turned out to be 0. maculatum. 



0. cordatum superhuyn. — This very fine variety was exhi- 

 bited at the great summer show at Manchester in 1867, by 

 A. Turner, Esq., of Leicester, who possesses, in his superb 

 collection, many perfectly unique varieties, and this is certainly 

 not the least. The flower spikes were upwards of two feet 

 high, very much branched ; colours richer and flowers larger 

 than in the preceding. 



O. coronarium. — A charming species from South America ; it 

 grows eighteen inches high, with short thick pseudobulbs, and 

 dark green foliage ; the spike, which rises upright from the 

 side of the bulb, is about eighteen inches in height ; sepals 

 and petals reddish brown, edged with yellow ; lip bright yellow. 

 It does best in a pot in peat, and will continue a long time 

 in perfection. 



0. cristatum. — A pretty compact-growing and free-flowering 

 species from Peru. The pseudobulbs are conical, of a light 

 shining green, with narrow leaves, producing flowers of a rich 

 yellow, spotted wath purple. There are several varieties of 

 this, some of which are very deficient in colour. 



0. Galeottianum. — This is a plant nearly allied to 0. nebu- 

 losum, and still somewhat rare; in growth it resembles 0, 

 Cervantesii, and it may be a hybrid between these two species. 

 The flowers are white, with the exception of the petals, 

 which are transversely barred with brown at the base; lip 

 white, with a few streaks of yellow near the base. Native 

 of Mexico. 



0. gloriosum. — This, hke many more of the family, would 

 appear to seed freely in its native country and produce 

 numberless varieties, some of which are good. It is a plant 



