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continues a considerable time in full beauty. The plant suc- 

 ceeds best in the Cattleya house, either suspended from the 

 roof upon a block, or potted in peat and sphagnum moss. It 

 comes very close to O. loncjipes. — Brazil : Organ Mountains. 



YlG.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 40. 



0. cnieEtum. — See Oncidium pelicanum, 



0. CUCUllatum, Lindley. — Although a small-flowered species, 

 this is a very beautiful one. It is a dwarf- growing plant 

 with oval obtuse costate pseudobulbs, and oblong-lanceolate 

 leaves, flat and equalling the scape, which bears the charming 

 flowers in nodding racemes, rarely in panicles. The upper 

 sepal and petals are oval, and together with the connate 

 lateral sepals are rose colour, and the lip cordato-panduri- 

 form, dilated and bilobed at the apex, reddish purple spotted 

 with deep purple. These flowers are produced in the spring 

 months, and last a long time in perfection. There are many 

 varieties, differing very much in colour ; the figure in Flore 

 cles Serres shows a form with a very broad rosy lilac lip 

 spotted with dark crimson. This species will do well in the 

 cool house with Odontoglossums. — New Grenada, at 8,700 

 feet elevation. 



^IG.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., iii. t. 87 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 317 ; Flore des Serres, 

 t. 835. 



Stn. — Leochilus sanguinolentus. 



0. CUCUllatuni flayidum, Hort. — This is a distinct and 

 very desirable form, similar in habit to the type. The 

 flowers have the sepals and petals yellow blotched with 

 brown, and the lip purple margined with white. It must be 

 placed in the coolest house ; the flowers are produced in 

 spring, and continue a long time in beauty. — New Grenada. 



0. CUCUllatuiIl macrocllillim, Lindley. — An entirely difTerent- 

 looking plant from the previous one, but equally beautiful, 

 being, according to Lindley, " the finest Alpine Orchid yet dis- 

 covered." It grows about a foot high, and has larger pseudo- 

 bulbs ; the scapes also are stronger, the flexuose racemes 

 being two feet in length, and well furnished with its beautiful 

 flowers, which have the sepals and petals of a rich plum colour 

 and crimson, and the lip, which is an inch and a half broad, 

 mauve spotted with dark violet. It must be grown in the 

 coolest house. — Quitinian Andes, at 13,000 feet elevation. 



