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during the summer months, and lasts a longtime in perfection. 

 Pot culture and peat suit it best. — Brazil. 



'FlG.—Bot. Reg., 1839, t. 42. 



0. pulvinatuin majus, Williams. — A fine variety of the 

 preceding, with the same habit of gi'owth, but having blossoms 

 much larger and also brighter in colour. We saw this very 

 fine in August, 1884, in the collection of the Comte de Germiny 

 in France. — Brazil. 



0. reflexum, Lindhy. — A pretty species, of dwarf habit 

 and easy culture. Its ovate pseudobulbs are monophyllous, 

 and its leaves narrow lanceolate and acute. The peduncles 

 grow a foot and a half high, and bear short remote flexuous 

 branches, so that the numerous long spikes become covered 

 with abundance of its comparatively large bright yellow 

 flowers, of which the sepals and petals are regularly speckled 

 with brown, and the lip has a few red specks at the base. 

 Eeichenbach describes the sepals and petals as dark purple 

 and the lip white, and his uncoloured figure appears to agree 

 with this description. Its flowers enliven the Orchid house 

 as autumn is approaching, which should make it an universal 

 favourite . — Mexico . 



'Fia.—3faund, Botanist, in. t. 116 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 36. 



0. Righyamim. — See Oncidium sakcodks. 



0. Eogersii. — See Oncidium vaeicosum Eogeesii. 



0. roseum, Loddiges. — A pretty small-flowered species, 

 regarded by Lindley as a variety of 0. carthaginense. It is a 

 bulbless plant with large solitary oblong leathery leaves, and 

 a tall scape bearing short branches of small creamy white 

 flowers spotted with bright crimson, and having a large 

 blotch in front of the yellow disk. It blooms at diff"erent 

 times of the year, and lasts six weeks in good condition. The 

 plant is best grown in a pot with peat. — Honduras. 



FlG.—Sertum Orch., t. 27 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3806 (Huntianum). 

 Eyn.— O. carthaginense sanguineum; 0. sanguineum; 0, Huntianum; 0. 

 Eenchmanni. 



0. roseum SUperbum, Hart. — A fine large variety of the 

 preceding, which we saw in the collection of the late T. West, 

 Esq., Clapham Park. It is a magnificent plant, making 

 panicles five feet long, covered with beautiful large rich 

 crimson and white flowers. — Honduras. 



