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0. gloriosilin, Linden et Rchb. f. — This species appears to 

 seed very freely in its native country and produces numberless 

 varieties, of which some are more ornamental than others. It 

 is a plant of good constitution, easily grown, travels well, and 

 flowers in the summer or show season. The pseudobulbs and 

 leaves resemble those of 0. crispum, and the plant bears a 

 long branched inflorescence. The flowers vary much in size 

 and colour, but are mostly yellow, sometimes clouded with 

 green, and always spotted with lively chestnut brown ; they 

 are stellate, with oblong-ligulate acuminate sepals and petals, 

 the former having a few larger, the latter more numerous 

 smaller spots on the basal half, and a lip which is cordate 

 at the base, ligulate acuminate upwards, angulate towards 

 the base, and having just above the crest a solitary irregular 

 brown blotch. This plant is very fragrant, with a powerful 

 hawthorn-like scent. — Neiv Grenada. 



FiG.—Bate7n., Mon. Odont., t. 12; Gard. Chron., 1865, 678, with fig. 



0, grande. LindUij. — This species is well nwnedigrande, for 

 it is indeed the finest of the genus, and one of the most showy 

 Orchids in cultivation ; it is a grand old plant, a universal 

 favourite, which no collection should lack. It has ovate- 

 oblong compressed ancipitous pseudobulbs, with a pair of 

 broadly ovate striated wavy leaves, and a two to five-flowered 

 erect scape springing from the 

 base of the bulbs, and bearing 

 the very large gaily-coloured 

 flowers, which measure from 

 five to seven inches across, 

 and are developed during the 

 autumn months. The sepals 

 are oblong-lanceolate, yellow, 

 transversely blotched with ir- 

 regular bands of chestnut 

 red ; the petals are broader, 

 oblong, with a single obcor- 

 date spot of chestnut red over odontoglossum grande. 



the lower two-thirds, the rest being clear bright yellow ; 

 the lip is roundish, emarginate, unguiculate, creamy white', 

 with a few concentric bands of chestnut red in front of the 

 disk, and dotted with irregular-shaped pale reddish brown 

 spots around the edge. It remains in perfection for three or 



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