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the open air for three days averaged 36°, and jet the plants 

 continued to shoot their young stems. — Mexico ; Guatemala. 



'FiG.—Bateman, Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 1 ; Flore des Serres, t. 522 ; Paxton, 

 Mag. Bot., vii. 241, with tab. 

 S V N, — Cyriochilum leucock Hum, 



0. Limmingliei, E. Mow. — This pretty little species is one 

 of the most singular in the whole genus, its habit being 

 similar to that of a Sophronitis. The pseudobulbs are 

 roundish compressed, wrinkled, about three-fourths of an 

 inch long. Tlae leaves are solitary sessile cordate ovate, an 

 inch long, dark green speckled with dull crimson, arranged 

 closely in a distichous manner on the surface, over which the 

 stem is creeping. The flowers are solitary, or, according to 

 the figure, two together, on a slender erect scape, the dorsal 

 obovate sepal and two spreading oblong petals dull olive 

 green with crossbars of brown ; and the lip, which has 

 roundish auricles and a long isthmus supporting the broad 

 roundish reniform front lobe, is yellow freely dotted on the 

 front edge and on the side lobes with crimson. It flowers 

 in June and July. It succeeds admirably in an intermediate 

 temperature. — Caracas. 



'Em.— Flore des Serres, t. 1827 ; Bclff. Hart., vi. t. 23. 



0. longipes, Lindlej/. — A pretty dwarf species of compact 

 habit, growing about six inches high, and producing its short 

 racemes of flowers in great abundance. The pseudobulbs are 

 small oblong tapered upwards on a creeping rhizome, di- 

 phyllous, the leaves linear-oblong apiculate, and the flowers 

 borne in short racemes about as long as the foliage. The 

 sepals and petals are spreading, of a dark brown, the dorsal 

 one spathulate, the lateral ones united at the base ; the petals 

 are oblong, tipped with yellow, and the lip is large and of a 

 bright golden yellow, with a broad blood red ring surround- 

 ing the crest, which is downy, three-toothed at the apex. It 

 blooms during the summer months, and wdll do well on a 

 block or in a small basket. It very much resembles 0. 

 Crcesus. — Brazil. 

 Tig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5193; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 165. 



0. ludens, Eclih. f. — A new species with the growth 

 resembling 0. serratxim. Sepals rich brown merging into a 

 mixture of yellowish brown, the upper one with a narrow yellow 

 border ; petals yellow with cinamon brown marbling ; lip pale 



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