and are erect and about 2 feet long, each carrying up to a dozen fragrant flowers 
about 3 inches across. The colours vary considerably, the usual type having oblong, 
concave sepals and petals of a rich red-brown shade, thickly spotted with dark 
purplish dots. The lip is striking in form, the middle lobe triangular in shape and 
purple in colour. The base is yellowish, finely spotted with purple, and is finished 
with two pointed, recurving horns at the sides. Other varieties are much darker 
in colouring, and in others again the basic colour of the lip is white or cream, 
striped and spotted with purple. They flower in Autumn, the flowers lasting 
from 7 to 10 days. 
HOULLETIA CHRYSANTHA. Native of Colombia. 
A distinct and lovely species with long ovate, furrowed pseudobulbs bearing a 
solitary long, ovate-lanceolate, plaited leaf. Scape is erect and shortish, and red in 
colour, and carries 6 or 7 medium sized concave flowers. Sepals and petals yel- 
low outside, golden inside, spotted thickly with chocolate. Lip deep yellow, 
flecked with crimson. Flowers in Autumn. 
HOULLETIA LANDSBERGII. Native of Costa Rica. 
Pseudobulbs about an inch long, solitary leaf a foot long and about 4 inches 
across. Flowers about 3 inches, and fleshy in texture. Sepals and petals orange with 
red spots. Lip narrow, white with a suffusion of purple. Flowers early Winter 
and lasts about a fortnight. 
HOULLETIA ODORATISSIMA. Native of Colombia. 
A worthwhile species with ovate, ribbed pseudobulbs topped with solitary light 
green, lanceolate, ribbed leaf. Flower spikes erect and about 15 inches high, carry- 
ing up to half-a-dozen three-inch flowers. Lip white with two reddish horns at 
the base. Fragrant with a strong smell of violets. Flowers in Autumn. Lasts 10 
days. 
Var. antroquensis. Sepals and petals broader than the ies and rich crimson on 
the inside, the exterior being brown. 
Var. xanthina. Sepals and petals orange-yellow—lip white, tipped with yellow. 
HOULLETIA PICTA. 
A delightful species with narrow conical furrowed pseudobulbs about 3 inches tall 
and an inch wide at the base tapering towards the top which bears a broad lance- 
olate leaf about 18 inches long. Flowers on a basal, erect, eighteen-inch stem, up to 
ten blooms being produced per stem. Each is about 34 inches across and 
has narrow oblong rounded sepals and petals which contract considerably at the 
base, cinnamon brown in colour, the lower parts being mottled with yellow. The 
spear-shaped middle lobe of the lip has a recurved channelled apex, the front part 
being yellow barred with reddish-purple and having at its sides two ascending spurs. 
Flowers in Autumn and lasts about a week. 
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