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into a pair of angular teeth, deeper violet. The flowers have 

 a rich spicy odour, recalling that of the garden pink, and they 

 are produced during the summer months, lasting four or five 

 weeks in good condition, if kept free from damp. This is 

 best grown on a block or in a basket, with moss or peat, and 

 makes a splendid plant for exhibition ; but we seldom see it 

 in good condition. — Guiana : Surinam. 



'Pig.— Trans. Eort. Soc. Loncl, 2 ser., ii. t. 5 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1887 ; K. cj- W. 

 Floral Cab., t. 79 ; Paxton, Maq. Bot., iv. 169, with tab. ; Flore des Serves, tt. 

 1842—3 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 32 ; Hart. Pai'ad., i. 1. 12 (superbum) ; Gard. 

 Chron., N.S., xxi. 609, fig. 118. 



0. Lanceanum Louyrexianum, Bchh. f. — A most chaste and 



beautiful variety of this grand old species, from which it differs 

 in that the lip, instead of being wholly mauve-coloured, 

 has the expanded apical lobe of a pure white, which forms a 

 fine contrast to the deep violet of the basal portion. It is 

 named in honour of M. D. Massange de Louvrex, Marche, 

 Belgium. The plant flowers during the summer months. — 

 Guiana. 

 Eld,— Orchid Album, iii. t. 129. 



0. leopardinum, Lindley. — A very free-flowering and pretty 

 species, of compact-growing habit. It produces its showy 

 flowers in large loose panicles some three feet high ; they are 

 yellow with very distinct dark brown bands on the sepals 

 and petals, and at the base of the lip, which has the middle 

 lobe unguiculate, transversely emarginate, and the base 

 auriculate. — Peru. 



O.leBCOCllillini, Bateman. — A desirable and beautiful species, 

 of which there are many varieties, some richer in colour than 

 others. It has oblong-ovate slightly furrowed pseudobulbs, 

 linear-lanceolate acute leaves, and long drooping panicles of 

 pleasing flowers, which have the oblong spreading nearly equal 

 sepals and petals yellowish green closely barred and blotched 

 with dai'k brown, and the broad kidney-shaped two-lobed lip 

 pure white with a blotch of purple red on the contracted unguis, 

 supported by two spreading white retuse lateral lobes. The 

 scapes are sometimes as much as ten feet long. It blooms at 

 different times of the year, and lasts a long time in perfection. 

 Best grown in a pot. Dr. Lindley, quoting Mr. Skinner, 

 observes that the summer temperature of the country where 

 this Oncid grows wild is between 55° and 70°, and that in 

 December, 1839, the thermometer in Guatemala at 6 a.m. in 



