LIST OF COOL ORCHIDS. Ill 



0. Pescatorel (New Granada, 1851).— This is a variable, but 

 strikingly beautiful species, similar in colour but rather 

 smaller in habit than its relative 0. crispum. It is easily 

 distinguished from the latter by its having a distinctly 

 panduriform or fiddle-shaped lip. Pseudo-bulbs thick and 

 speckled with brown, two-leaved ; leaves from six to twelve 

 inches long; spikes or panicles from one to two feet long, 

 erect or drooping, and bearing from ten to one hundred 

 Howers ; sepals and petals of pearly whiteness ; lip white, 

 with bold purple blotches, and a lemon yellow bilobed and 

 serrated crest. Flowers in April and May, lasting three or 

 four weeks, or even more, in perfection. Lord Londesborough 

 has a fine variety of this, bearing flowers three inches across, 

 with very broad segments of great substance. There are also 

 some superb forms of this lovely species in the collection of 

 E. Salt, Esq. 



*0. PhaliBiiopsis (Ecuador, 1850). — A very distinct and 

 beautiful species. Its ovoid bulbs are two-leaved and of a 

 very pale whitish green colour. Leaves slender. Grass-like, 

 pale green or glaucous ; scapes slender, one or three flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves ; sepals and petals oblong, about an 

 inch long, pure white ; lip very large and flat, fiddle-shaped 

 — that is, contracted in the centre, white, with a lilac blotch, 

 and a few purple spots. This species is rather delicate, and 

 will be found to require a warmer temperature than most 

 Odontoglots, except 0. Krameri. The house in which it is 

 grown should not be allowed to fall below 50'^ during the 

 winter months. It requires an equal temperature, free from 

 sudden changes, in order to grow it successfully. I have 

 never seen it grow so freely as it does in the rich collection 

 of 0. 0. Wrigley, Esq., of Bury, under the care of Mr. Thos. 

 Hubberstey. Plants of it are there grown by the dozen, and one 

 fine specimen of it has been exhibited both at Manchester and 



