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0. CaTendislliaiLlini, Bateman. — A very sliowy and noble 

 species of bold and striking babit, remarkable for the ab- 

 sence of pseudobulbs, the large broad fleshy rich green 

 leaves, together with the stout flower scape, growing out from 

 between a few stout imbricated scaly bracts. The bright 

 yellow flowers are produced in great abundance on the stout 

 tall branching scapes, and appear in the dull months of winter, 

 a fact which greatly increases its value, for even at that 

 season they retain all their brilliancy for several weeks. The 

 flowers are about an inch in diameter, the sepals obovate- 

 obtuse with the upper one arched, greenish yellow spotted 

 with bright chestnut, the petals oblong-obtuse wavy and of 

 the same colours, and the lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 roundish unguiculate, the middle one larger reniform deeply 

 emarginate and of a pure bright yellow colour. It has a 

 crest of four prominent tubercles. In 0. pachyphyllum, 

 which Lindley considers a form of the same plant, the sepals 

 and petals are spotted with crimson. Keichenbach keeps 

 them distinct, and figures in Xeriia a golden-lipped variety 

 oi x>(^^chypliyllum. It may be grown on a block or in a pot, 

 but on account of its size seems to do best in the latter. — 

 Guatemala. 



'EiG.—Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat, t. 3 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3807 (paclijphyllum); 

 Xenia Orch., i. t. 99, fig. 4 (pachyphyllum chrysoglossum). 



Syn, — 0. pachyphyllum (spotted fl.), 0. pachyphyllum chrysoglossum. 



0. cMropllomm, RcM. /. — A very pretty dwarf-growing 

 species, producing slender panicles of small golden yellow 

 sweet-scented flowers. It has small ovate ancipitous pseudo- 

 bulbs, linear-lanceolate acute leaves, and dense short-branched 

 panicles of flowers, which, though not of large size, should 

 secure the admission of the species to any choice collection on 

 account of its free-blooming properties and its dehghtful fra- 

 grance ; the lip is comparatively large, and three-lobed ; it 

 flowers in October. — Veragua : Volcano of Chiriqui. 



'ElG.— Xenia Orch., i. t. 69, fig. 1 ; Bot. 3Iag., t. 6278. 



0. clirysotliyrsus, Bchb. f. — A very showy and abundant- 

 flowered Oncid, of free and compact growth, seldom attaining 

 more than a foot in height, the pseudobulbs being two to 

 three inches high, oblong compressed, and at length ribbed, 

 and supporting a pair of oblong acute light green leaves. The 

 scape is some two to three feet in length, terminated by a 

 thyrsoid panicle of numerous showy and lovely flowers, of 



