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in a basket, in which the flowers are shown off to good 

 advantage ; it is a general favourite with Orchid growers, and 

 useful for cutting. The fragrance resembles that of the native 

 Gymnadenia conopsea. — Mexico ; Guatemala ; Peru. 



YiG.—Humb., Bonpl, ei Kth., Nov. Gen., i. t. 80 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3912 ; Bot. 

 Reg., 1840, t. 10 ; Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat, t. 4 : Knowles ^ Westc. 

 Floral Cab., t. 136. 



0. ornitliorliyiiclium albiflorum, BcU. /.—In this white 



variety of 0. ornitliorhijnchum we have a great acquisition 

 for our Orchid collections, as white flowers are always valuable ; 

 being also sweet-scented, it will be all the more aj)preciated. 

 The flowers are white, with the calli only yellow. — Guatemala. 

 ¥iG.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 398. 



0. Papilio, Lindleif. — A very remarkable and beautiful 

 species, with flowers the shape of a butterfly. It has roundish 

 ovate compressed rugose dark 

 purple pseudobulbs, bearing a 

 single elliptical leathery one- 

 nerved leaf, which is of a deep 

 purple-brown, spotted and blot- 

 ched over with green. The 

 flower-scape, which springs from 

 the base of the bulb, is two to 

 three feet long, flexuose, jointed, 

 the upper articulations compressed, 

 ancipitous, and terminated by one 

 or two large and very handsome 

 flowers. The dorsal sepal and 

 two petals are about three inches 

 long, linear, erect, lurid green 

 outside, purple within, the lateral 

 ones oblong tapering wavy sub- 

 falcate decurved, bright yellow, striped with transverse bands 

 of orange-red ; and the lip is shorter, roundish, an inch and a 

 half across, wavy at the edge, emarginate, distinctly clawed, 

 yellow, mottled all over with brown or having a broad margin 

 of bright cinnamon brown {limhatum). This species is best 

 grown on a block or in a basket. — Trinidad, Caracas. 



IPiG.—Locld. Cab., t. 1086 : Bot. Mag., t. 2795 ; Bot. Reg., i. 910 ; Jennings, 

 t. 11 ; Maund, Botanist, i. t. 10; Paxton, Mag. Bot., v. 175, with tab.; 

 K7iowles 4- Westc. Floral Cab., t. 12; Rchb. Fl. Exot., t. 62; Hart. Farad., 

 i. t. 9 ; Flore des Serres, tt. 920—22. 



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