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suits it best, with a good supply of water — in short, it should 

 never be allowed to become dry. This and the preceding 

 last several weeks in bloom, and they both make fine exhibi- 

 tion plants. — Xew Grenada, elevation 8,000 feet. 

 -piG.— Warner, Set. Orch. PL, i. t. 7; Garlenflora, t. 791. 



0. nebulosum, Lindley. — A very handsome species, with 

 oblong pseudobulbs, a pair of thick ligulate leaves, and a 

 flower scape which comes up with the young growth, and 

 bears five or six large flowers, and becomes pendulous as they 

 expand. The flowers are two and a half inches across; 

 the lanceolate elliptic sepals, and the much broader ovate 

 petals are clear white thickly studded in the lower half with 

 spots of reddish brown, or in some forms with red ; the lip is 

 ovate acute, much undulated, and otherwise differs only in the 

 spots being larger, with a faint tinge of yellow on the disk. — 

 Mexico. 



YiG.—lllust. Hort., t. 200 (as maxillare) ; Batem., Mon. Odont., t. 1 ; 

 Gard. Chron., 1867, 572, with fig. 



Stn. — 0. maxillare. 



0. nebulosum candidulum, FicM. f. — A very pretty and 

 delicate variety, precisely like the previous plant, saving in 

 having the sepals and petals pure white, and entirely destitute 

 of the spotting or clouding at the base. It is not so good as 

 the type, but it is very distinct, and well worth a place in 

 every collection. — Mexico. 



'EiG.—Gard. Chron., 1867, 710, with fig. 



0. nevadense, Rchh. f. — A thoroughly distinct as well as 

 rare and beautiful species. It has large oblong-ovate pseudo- 

 bulbs which are diphyllous, lorate lanceolate keeled leaves 

 much narrowed to the base, and radical scapes bearing long 

 drooping racemes of numerous large and pleasingly coloured 

 flowers, of which the lanceolate sepals are of a clear bright 

 chestnut with a narrow even edge of yellow, the petals 

 smaller, similarly coloured, with two forked bars of pale 

 yellow in addition at the base opposite the lateral lobes of the 

 lip, which are large, erect, crescent-shaped, white spotted with 

 chestnut, the front lobe large, roundish, cuspidate- acuminate, 

 pure white, deeply fringed, the disk with a bifid crest and 

 three obcuneate brown spots. — New Grenada. 



Fig.— Xewia Orch., ii. t. 191, figa. 1—3 ; Illust. Hort., 3 aer., t. 45 ; Orchid 

 ]bum, iii. t. 131. 



0. llol)ile. — See Odontoglo-!Sum Pescatokei. 



