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base confluent into irregular broken lines. The lip is some- 

 what hastate, deep yellow at the base, where there are about 

 four longitudinal red lines, and a fringe of smaller transverse 

 streaks on each side, the centre having two or three chestnut 

 brown blotches, and the wavy margin and front portion pale 

 primrose. It flowers in the spring. — Colombia. 

 Fig.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, iii. t. 25. 



0. Edwardii, Rchb. f. — A species of great merit, and one 

 that should be grown by every one on account of its distinct- 

 ness of colour and the deHcious perfume of its flowers. It is 

 a stout-growing plant, producing large pear-shaped pseudo- 

 bulbs of a dark green colour. The flowers are produced in 

 large thyrsoid panicles, and although small individually are 

 nevertheless very efi'ective on account of their being produced 

 in profusion — hterally by hundreds ; they have the sepals and 

 petals bright violet purple, the sepals asperous on the outer sur- 

 face, and the lip of the same colour with a bright yellow base. 

 The flowers of this species, which have a delicious perfume of 

 violets, are produced in February and March. We saw this 

 plant well flowered in the collection of Baron Schroder, The 

 Dell, Staines, under the care of the gardener, Mr. Ballantine. 

 — Ecuador. 



0. elegans, Rchb. f. — This most distinct plant was imported 

 with a batch of 0. cirrhosum, of which species it is doubtless 

 a natural hybrid, resembling it as it does not only in the 

 shape of its flowers, but also in its habit of growth, and in its 

 paniculate inflorescence. Its other parent is supposed to be 

 0. cristatum. The lanceolate acuminate sepals and broader 

 caudate petals are yellowish white, and are marked with a 

 number of dark chocolate spots and blotches, so as to become 

 almost covered, the sepals especially so ; the lip is hastately 

 triangular caudate, with two long serrated keels on the disk, 

 pale yellow at the base, white in front, having a large rich 

 brown blotch in the centre and one or two spots towards the 

 apex ; the crest is deep yellow, the column white with choco- 

 late markings. It flowers in May. — Ecuador. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 111. 



0. excellens, Rchb. /. — This ' wonderfully fine ' plant is 

 thought to be a natural hybrid between 0. Pescatorei and 0. 

 tripudians. The flowers are rather broader than those of the 

 latter; the sepals yellow with a few purple blotches, the dorsal 



