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the axil of an accessory leaf, bears a many-flowered erect 

 panicle of showy flowers, which are about two to two and a 

 half inches across, very distinct, the obovate sepals and the 

 much larger undulated petals bright chestnut brown, broadly 

 margined with broken golden yellow lines, as is also the lip, 

 which is clawed, larger than the petals, and flabelliform ; it 

 blooms in November. This plant is best grown on a block 

 with moss in the cool house. — Brazil. 



'EiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3705; Orchid Album, Mi. t. 104; Card. Chron., Ti.S., 

 si. 525, figs. 71, 72. 



Sin. — 0. crispum marginatum. 



0. fuscatuin. — See Miltonia Warsceaviczii. 



0. Gardneri, LindUy. — A most charming and free-flowering 

 species, that should be grown by every admirer of Orchids. 

 It is nearly allied to 0. curium and 0. prcBtexticm, and is a 

 compact growing plant, having oblong-ovate furrowed pseudo- 

 bulbs, and dark green oblong-lanceolate leaves, which are purple 

 on the under side. The handsome flowers are produced in 



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large branching panicles, and are deliciously fragrant; the 

 sepals are obovate, and the petals twice as large, roundish, 

 wavy, clawed, both of a pale bright chestnut brown margined 

 with pale yellow ; the hp is large three-lobed, the middle lobe 

 large, transversely oblong, emarginate, wavy, of a bright golden 



