112 COOL ORCHID GROWING. 



in London with sixty delicate flowers, all expanded at the 

 same time. Blooms about May, lasting four or five weeks. It 

 is also sometimes called Miltonia pulchella. 



O.platycodon (Peruvian Andes). — A strong-growing species, 

 found at high altitudes, where the temperature is subjected 

 to great and sudden changes. Flower-spikes strong, eighteen 

 inches to two feet high, often bearing in their native habitats 

 from fifty to a hundred flowers. This plant is said to be capable 

 of withstanding a degree or two of frost, but we should not 

 advise it to be subjected to such rigorous treatment. 



0. pulchellum (Mexico, 1841). — A chaste, white-flowered 

 species, of very easy culture. Bulbs dark green, ovoid, bearing 

 two dark green leaves, very narrow. Flower-spikes erect, 

 from twelve to fourreen inches high, ten or twelve flowered ; 

 flowers about an inch across and of crystalline whiteness ; lip 

 white, curiously bent or twisted, having a crest shaped like a 

 W, of a clear lemon yellow colour, with a few purple dots. It 

 is a deliciously fragrant species, tind very useful for cutting, 

 as its flowers are produced in great profusion. Flowers in 

 March and April, lasting six weeks. 



a. 0. pulchelhim majus. — This is a larger flowered form, 

 similar to the last in habit. 



h. 0. pulchellum tenuifoUam. — Another variety, having very 

 small flowers, not so widely expanded as the last. 



0. radiatum — See 0. luteo-purpureum. 



0. Beichenlieimi (South America). — A vigorous growing 

 species. Pseudo-bulbs from five to seven inches high, two- 

 leaved; leaves from twelve to fourteen inches long; panicle 

 erect, two to three feet high ; sepals and petals green, barred 

 with chestnut brown ; lip wedge-shaped, white, with a lilac 

 blotch on its basal half, column very short, white. A free- 

 flowering species, lasting a long time in beauty. 



