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0. CErstedii, Bchh. f. — A very pretty diminutive species, 

 having oblong ancipitous pseudobulbs, which are furnished 

 with a single cuneate oblong leaf, and producing erect scapes 

 bearing one or two flowers, of which the lanceolate wavy 

 sepals and the obovate retuse undulated petals are pure white, 

 while the flabellate lip, four-lobed in front, is white with a 

 yellow disk and a few red spots. This plant is very flori- 

 ferous, and is in addition deliciously scented ; it flowers 

 during the summer months. — Costa Rica. 



¥lG.—Xenia Orch., i. t. 68, figs. 1—3; Gard. Chron., N.S., vii. 811, fig. 

 128. 



0. pardimim, Lindley.^One of the most distinct species of 

 the genus, which was first flowered by Lord Rendlesham in 

 1878. It produces large ovate compressed pseudobulbs, narrow 

 elliptic-oblong acute leaves, and strong branching panicles 

 three feet long or more, freely furnished with flowers of large 

 size and of the purest golden yellow colour, ornamented 

 with several small orange red ocellated spots on the much 

 undulated petals and the lip, which latter is of a deeper yellow 

 than the other parts of the flower. It should be cultivated 

 on account of its distinct colour — a palish yellow lightly 

 spotted, its long lasting properties, and its delicious fragrance. 

 It flowers in March and April. — Peru, Ecuador. 



'FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5993. 



Syn.— Cyrtochilum pardinum. 



0. Pescatorei, Linden. — A magnificient species, and one of 

 the choicest gems of the cool Orchid house. It is furnished 

 with small ovate slightly costate pseudobulbs, bearing a pair 

 of lorate leaves a foot in length, and producing branched 

 panicles of richly ornamental flowers during April and May. 

 The sepals and petals are ovate-oblong, undulated, white with 

 a shade of rose, and the cordate oblong cuspidate sub- 

 pandurate lip is white spotted with rose, the disk with its crest 

 being bright yellow streaked with crimson. The panicles some- 

 times contain as many as a hundred flowers. We ourselves 

 showed a specimen at Brussels with one hundred flowers ex- 

 panded at one time ; and when grown in this way the plant 

 produces a charming effect. There are several varieties of 

 it, all of them good. It does best in a cool house, grown in 

 a pot. — ]<[ew Grenada : Pamplona. 



Fig.— Paxf. Fl. Gard., iii. t. 90 ; Pescntorea, t. 1 ; Flore des Serres, t. 

 1624 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 331 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 25 ; BaUm., Man. 

 Odont., t. 5 ; Orchid Album, iv. t, 175 ; Floral Mag., t. 241 (splendens). 



Syn.—O. nobile. 



