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gleam of gold in the lip, singularly effective. In 

 form they are curiously like those of the potato. 

 Ecuador. Early summer. 1880. 10s. 6d. Figured, 

 p. 173. 



Elegans. An exquisite flower ; of the tenderest 

 yellow, spotted and dashed with chocolate. Lip 

 white, with a chocolate blotch. Spring. Ecuador. 

 Doubtless a natural hybrid, or rather two, under 

 the same name. The smaller varieties represent 

 cirrhosum x cristatum ; the larger and finer cir- 

 rhosum x Halli. 



Excellens. Soft yellow fading into white, with 

 purple blotches. Always charming, and sometimes 

 beautiful beyond description, as in Baron Schroder's 

 famous specimen. A natural hybrid of Pescatorei 

 X triumphans. Late spring. New Granada. 



Facetum (cone-shaped). Perhaps a hybrid of scep- 

 trum and Hunmwellianum. Pale yellow, heavily 

 blotched with chestnut. I have seen varieties of 

 this as handsome as any Odontoglot whatsoever 

 of the coloured class. Spring. New Granada. 

 15s. 



Gloriosum. A very variable species, found in 

 company with crispum. Sometimes lovely, but, as 

 a rule, not striking. Yellow, spotted with bright 

 chestnut. Stongly scented. April and May. New 

 Granada. 3s. 6d. 



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