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a more noble looking plant, the blossoms being of good 

 substance and lasting a long time. Flowers in July and 

 August. 



0. Marsliallianurn (South. America). A really beautiful 

 plant, of which fine specimens have been shown. It is best con- 

 sidered as a golden-blossomed variety of 0. crispum. In habit 

 it is identical with the last-named species ; but its pseudo- 

 bulbs and leaves are pale green instead of reddish brown or 

 bronze-coloured. The flowers are from two to three inches 

 across, of a rich golden-yellow colour, marked with brown 

 spots and blotches. It grows well either in a pot or a pan 

 suspended near the light, and, like its congeners, O. crispum 

 and 0. crispum Forbesii, does well in peat and sphagnum in 

 the coolest end of the house. 



0. obryzatum (New Granada). This species is as easily 

 grown as the old flexuosum, and freely produces an abun- 

 dant supply of long-branched spikes, heavily laden with 

 fragrant blossoms of brown and gold ; flowers in good varie- 

 ties an inch across ; blooms throughout the dullest winter 

 months, lasting a month in flower, and, moreover, is well 

 adapted for cutting. It is one of the most valuable of winter- 

 flowering Orchids. 



0. ornithorhynchum (Mexico, 1826). Pseudo-bulbs glaucous 

 from one to two inches high ; two-leaved leaves oblong ; 

 flower-spikes freely produced during autumn and winter, very 

 much branched, and heavily laden, like the last, with fragranfc 

 blossoms of a lilac or purple colour, with a golden corrugated 

 crest on the lip. This and its larger form are well adapted for 

 indoor decorative purposes, being, when well grown, one dense 

 mass of flowers. 



0. Phalcenopsis (Peru). This plant in habit resembles 

 0. cucnllatum, but bears more showy flowers ; sepals white 

 speckled with purple ; petals white, with bright purple bars 



