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Hawthorn. The flowers are exactly like those of 0. naevium 

 in shape, but yellow instead of white ; lip having a biJobed 

 white crest, around which is a blotch of clear lemon yellow. 

 Flowers very profusely in August and September, or much 

 later than naevium, lasting a long time in bloom. 



0. Ehrenhergi (Mexico). — This pretty little species is, in size 

 and habit, very much like 0. Cervantesi, but its sepals are 

 barred with brown to their apices, while those of 0. Cervantesi 

 are only barred on their basal half; the lip very much 

 resembles that of 0. stellatum (0. erosum) ; when a good 

 mass of it becomes thoroughly well established, it flowers 

 freely, and the same may be said of all the species composing 

 this dwarf group. 



0. gloriosum (New Granada). — This plant is, in habit, iden- 

 tical with 0. neevium, from which cultivators distinguish it by 

 its larger branched spikes, and creamy yellow flowers, spotted 

 and blotched with brown, whereas, in the true 0. naevium, and 

 its fine variety naevium majus, the flowers are of snowy white- 

 ness, spotted with purple ; sepals and petals from an inch to 

 an inch and a half long, lanceolate, acuminate, incurved, very 

 wavy along their margins ; blooms in April and May, lasting a 

 long time in flower. It appears to be a strong form of the 

 group of which O. naevium is the type. 



*0. grande (Guatemala). — Truly named, for this is the most 

 gorgeous species of the whole group, and when well grown 

 makes a flne, decorative, and valuable exhibition plant. Its 

 glaucous pseudo-bulbs are thick, slightly angular, two-leaved ; 

 leaves from six to nine inches long, broad, lanceolate, and dark 

 green ; flower scapes stout, from five to nine flowered ; flowers 

 individually from four to seven inches across ; sepals and petals 

 oblong, undulate, of a rich golden yellow colour, barred with 

 shining brown ; lip pale, creamy white, or yellow, barred with 

 pale brown. When well grown, it often bears from twenty to 



