498 orchid-grower's manual. 



0. pTiymatOcTlilnTTi) Lindley. — A pretty species, very distinct 

 from all others in its flowers as well as in its growth. The 

 pseudobulbs are broad fusiform, compressed, four to five inches 

 long, the base invested by large distichous scales, and bearing 

 at the tip a solitary dark green obovate-lanceolate leaf a foot 

 long and three inches broad. The flowers are curious, and grow 

 in a well-furnished panicled fiexuose raceme a foot or more 

 in length ; the sepals and petals are linear-subulate, flaccid, 

 yellowish green with a row of orange-red spots on the basal 

 part ; and the lip is shorter, three-lobed, the front trowel- 

 shaped lobe white, the contracted claw-like portion thickened 

 tuberculately, crested, yellow spotted with orange. This is a 

 species which ought to be in every collection ; it blooms 

 during May and June, and continues in flower for two months 

 at a time ; it is best grown in a pot, in peat. — Sujojiosed to be 

 from Mexico or Brazil. 



'FiG.—Bof. Mag., t. 5214 ; Pescatorea, t. 35 ; Gard. Chron., 1848, 139, with 

 fig. ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 88, with fig. 



0. pulcliellilin, Hooker. — A beautiful dwarf compact plant 

 belonging to the group with equitant foliage, the slender flower 

 scape attaining a height of about six inches. The base of the 

 leaves is compressed, striated, and the upper part of each is 

 articulated on this basal portion, and is thick, succulent, tri- 

 quetrous, distichous and sharp-pointed, three to five inches long. 

 The flowers grow in close racemes, and are roundish, the lip 

 deeply four-lobed, with the sepals and petals much smaller, 

 white with a tinge of pink around the yellow trifid crest ; they 

 are produced in abundance during the summer months, and 

 remain for a long time in perfection. It thrives well on a 

 block, with plenty of moisture at the roots. — Jamaica ; 

 Demerara. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1787 ; Bot. Mag., t. 2773 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1984. 



0. pulvinatum, Lindley. — A free-flowering species, compact 

 in habit, the pseudobulbs and foliage growing about a foot 

 high. The flower scapes, however, are not unfrequently 

 eight or nine feet long, smooth, much branched, with flexuous 

 divaricate branches ; the flowers are very numerous and gay- 

 looking, about an inch across, bright yellow with the base of 

 the sepals and petals crimson, and the roundish three-lobed 

 lip also yellow, but dotted with crimson around the margin. 

 On the disk is a convex cushion of dense hairs. It blooms 



