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0. Cervantesii ALdersoni, Moore. — This variety, which is 

 referred to without Dame by Reichenbach in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle (1868, 710), has white flowers marked by the 

 usual concentric broken Hnes or bars of reddish brown at the 

 base of the sepals and petals, but differs in having the lip 

 bordered by numerous spots of the same colour as the bars at 

 the base of the sepals. It was flowered by Mr. Anderson in 

 the Meadow Bank collection. — Mexico. 



0. Cervantesii decorum, Rchb. f. — A magnificent variety 

 of 0. Cervantesii, with very large flowers, measuring nearly 

 three inches across. The sepals and petals are white tinged 

 with rose and spotted and barred with reddish brown ; the 

 lip is large, white tinged with rose blotched with crimson 

 and beautifully fringed. This variety produces as many as 

 three or four flowers on a spike, and when grown in a basket 

 makes a very charming object. It was exhibited by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., in whose fine collection it 

 flowered. — Mexico . 



0. Cervantesii membranaceuni,I/M2f//e^. — A charming small- 

 growing variety of this beautiful species, in which the larger 

 fragi-ant flowers, which smell of almonds, are pure white 

 having concentric broken lines of crimson at the base, and a 

 deeply cordate retuse blunt lip, marked with a few concentric 

 crimson bars. It blooms during the winter months, and 

 continues in bloom four weeks. This will do on a block of 

 wood or in a pot. There are many forms of this variety. 

 One named 0. C. memhranaceum roseum is a very handsome 

 plant, with the flowers in racemes of five or six together, rose 

 colour, shaded with yellow, and barred with brown, and pro- 

 duced through autumn and winter. — Mexico ; Guatemala. 



¥lG.—£ot. Reg., 1846, t. 34 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4923; Annales de Gand, 1845, 

 t. 10; Pescatorea, t. 5; Moore, III. Orch, PI., Odontoglossum, t. 5. 



0. Chestertoni, Hort. — A very handsome Odontoglot intro- 

 duced by the late Mr. Chesterton. It is of the 0. crispum 

 type, and has the sepals much serrated, white heavily barred 

 with reddish brown, the petals white with a few small reddish 

 brown spots towards the centre, deeply toothed at the edge, 

 and the lip pale yellow, having a large reddish brown 

 , blotch in the centre, and the margin beautifully fringed. It 

 flowers at different times of the year, after the growth has 

 been completed. — Neiv Grenada. 



