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white with two great crimson blotches, one on each side of the 

 centre, where occurs a broken bar or two of the same colour, 

 the front edge of the blotches being extended into stripes. 

 The plant blooms in summer, and. will last in bloom four or 

 five weeks. This is a free plant to cultivate, but it requires 

 the heat of the Cattleya house in winter to grow it well ; it 

 also requires a well-drained pot, and good fibrous peat soil. — 

 New Grenada. 



'FlG.—Pesca/orea, t. 44 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 30 ; Baiem., Mon. 

 Odont., t. 3 ; Gard. Chron., 1872, 832, fig. 191 (specimen plant). 

 Syn. — Miltonia pulchella. 



0. Pollettianuni, Hort. — A very handsome and distinct 

 Odontoglot, probably a natural hybrid between 0. crispum 

 and O. f/loriosum. The sepals and petals are white tinged 

 with purple on the underside and heavily blotched and 

 spotted with reddish brown ; the lip wedge-shaped. It was 

 exhibited by H. M. Pollett, Esq., Bickley, at South Keusing- 

 ton,atthe K.H.S. meeting in February, 1884. — New Grenada. 



0. polyxantlllim, Bchh. /. — A rare and handsome plant 

 resembhng 0. Hallii in the character of its pseudobulbs 

 and foliage. Its flower scapes are some two feet or more in 

 length, drooping, the individual flowers being about four 

 inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are large ovate- 

 lanceolate acute, deep tawny yellow, the sepals having a 

 large roundish blotch of bright chestnut red towards the end 

 and various smaller markings near the base, the petals being 

 marked only near the base ; the lip is shorter, cordate, cus- 

 pidate, nearly covered by a broad dark chocolate brown blotch, 

 the edge being just marked with yellowish white and finely 

 toothed. It flowers in April and May. Introduced by Mr. 

 E. Klaboch in 1878. — Ecuador. 

 YiG.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 453. 



0. prsenitens, Bchh. f. — A very interesting species, whose 

 flowers are in the way of those of 0. triuniphans, but are 

 smaller, though with clear shining colours, which make them 

 very effective. The sepals and very wavy petals are bright 

 shining sulphur yellow with a few large maroon-brown 

 blotches ; and the lip has the claw white, and its anterior 

 part yellow, marked in the centre with a cinnamon-coloured 

 blotch. It flowers in the spring months. At one time Prof. 

 Eeichenbach thought it might be a natural mule between 



