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upper surface, paler beneath. The flowers are very numerous, 

 in ample much-branched panicles, and are individually large — 

 two and a half inches across the spreading petals, and 

 brilliantly coloured. The sepals are small, the dorsal one 

 concave obovate, yellow banded with purple, the lateral 

 ones oblong, connate at the base ; the petals are an inch long, 

 clawed, broadly fiddle-shaped, the margin undulated, the apex 

 two-lobed, the colour deep golden yellow, with a series of large 



OXCIDIUM MOXACHIC0M (p. 494). 



unequal irregular chestnut brown blotches along the centre ; 

 and the lip is very large, contracted behind into an auricled 

 claw spotted with orange red, and having a tubercled beaked 

 callus, the broad oblong front portion bright yellow and deeply 

 bilobed. There have been some fine varieties of this species 

 bloomed of late years, and we are glad to say there have been 

 some good importations of it. As an exhibition plant this is one 

 of the most telling that can be staged, the rich golden yellow of 



