ONCIDIUM. 497 



0. Papilio Eckhardtii, Lucien Linden. — A superior variety 

 of this old favourite, Laving larger flowers, and a very broad 

 lip of larger size than in the type. The three erect narrow 

 perianth segments are four and a half inches long, and the lip 

 two and a quarter inches across, the latter yellow with a 

 broad orange-red border, and the lateral sepals cross-barred 

 with a similar coloar. — Native Coiintrij not stated. 



FiG.—lUust. Eorikole, 3 ser., t. 500. 



0. Papilio majUS, Bchh. f. — A truly beautiful Orchid, 

 which, like the other forms of the species, continues to bloom 

 from the old flower stems for years — as soon as one flower 

 fades, another appears in the same place. The form of the 

 flowers, as already explained, is very peculiar ; and the colour 

 is rich dark brown, barred with yellow, with the lip very 

 large, bright yellow in the centre, and edged with dark brown, 

 varying in colour and size of flower. There are several 

 varieties of 0. Papilio, but that called majus is the best. — 

 Trinidad. 



0. pelicanum, Martins. — A very desirable species in which 

 the pseudobulbs are of a dark green colour, and the leaves 

 are elongate lanceolate and acute. It produces fine branching 

 panicles of showy flowers, which have the sepals and petals 

 yellow barred with brown, and the lip pale yellow. — Mexico. 



¥lG.—Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 70. 



SvN. — 0. cruentum; 0. reflexum pelicanum, 



0. Plialsenopsis, Linden et Rchh. f. — A beautiful and distinct 

 slender-habited plant, growing about a foot in height. The 

 pseudobulbs are ovate oblong, furrowed, about two inches long, 

 and of a very dark green colour ; the leaves in pairs, ligulate- 

 oblong deep green ; and the scape very slender, bearing a 

 raceme of five or six large flowers, an inch and a half across 

 and two inches deep. The sepals are lanceolate, mottled all 

 over with reddish violet, except the edge, which is creamy white; 

 the petals are of the same form and spreading, also creamy 

 white, but with cross-bars of the rich reddish violet ; and the 

 lip is creamy white, pandurate, the front dilated and bilobed, 

 the narrowed middle part and the less dilated base spotted 

 with violet-crimson ; the base also bears a crest of three golden 

 lamellas. It should be grown in the cool house. — Ecuador. 



'ElG.—lllust. Eon., 3 ser., t. 3 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 96. 



