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OECHID-GROWER S MANUAIi. 



the front part white, roundish, ovate acute ; the purple part 

 bears a crest of five irregular lamellae. This is a useful plant 

 for exhibition, on account of its continuing so long in bloom. 

 — New Grenada. 



'Em.—Bot. Mng.,t. 4272 (non t. 4919, which is cariniferum) ; Batem., Mon. 

 Odont., t. 7 ; Pescatorea, t. 11. 



0. hebraicum, Rchb. f. — This very beautiful and distinct 

 Odontoglot, supposed to be a natural hybrid, has elongate 

 ovate compressed pseudobulbs, ligulate oblong leaves, and 

 dense racemes or panicles of showy stellate flowers, of 

 which the ovate lanceolate acuminate sepals and petals 

 are pale yellow, and are striped and heavily spotted with 

 chestnut brown, the markings being suggestive of Hebrew 

 characters. The hastate lip is yellow, darker at the base, 

 where it is marked by short radiating lines of crimson, the 

 front part undulate and acuminate, and having a large cordi- 

 form blotch of maroon-brown. It flowers in the summer 

 months. — New Grenada. 



YiG.—Oi-cMd Album, v. t. 194. 



0. hehraicuin lineoligerum, Rchb. f. — An interesting 



variety of the pi'eceding, first flowered by C. Wynn, Esq., of 

 Birmingham. The flowers when they first open are pale 

 yellow, changing with age to creamy white, distinctly marked 

 with longitudinal bars and oblong blotches of purple- crimson, 

 the margins and tips unspotted. The lip is elongate triangular 

 acuminate wavy pale yellow, having three or four purple- 

 crimson spots variously disposed on its anterior part ; on the 

 disk are a pair of prominent divergent crests, the area which 

 surrounds them being deep yellow. It flowers during the 

 summer months. — New Grenada. 

 'Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 85. 



0. Horsmanni, Rchb. f. — A very beautiful and distinct 

 plant, supposed to be a natural hybrid between 0. Pescatorei 

 and 0. luteo-jmrpureum. The pseudobulbs are pear-shaped, 

 compressed. The flowers are of good form, well filled up, and 

 very ornamental ; the sepals and petals yellowish white blotched 

 with cinnamon ; the lip broad, yellowish white, with a large 

 yellow disk blotched with cinnamon. It was discovered by 

 Mr, Frederick Horsman. When the many-flowered racemes 

 of this Odontoglot are well developed, as we have frequently 

 seen them, the efiect they produce is highly pleasing. The 



