ORNITHOCEKPHALUS GRANDIFLORUS. 
[PuatE 472.) 
Native of the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs very small, having several sheathing dark green leaves, 
arranged in a distichous manner; these are oblong obtuse, and from three to six 
inches in length. Scape rising from the axil of the leaf, some six to eight inches 
long, arching, bearing a many-flowered raceme, the individual flowers slightly less 
than an inch across. Sepals and petals similar, but the lateral ones slightly smaller 
and reflexed, pure white, blotched with bright emerald-green at the base ; lip some- 
what rounded, saccate, keeled beneath, clawed, the front lobe crisp, white in front, 
green behind. 
ORNITHOCEPHALUS GRANDIFLORUS, Lindley, Annals Society Natural History, iv., 
p. 383. Reichenbach, Walper’s Annales Botanices Systematice, vi., p. 498. Ibid, 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, xviii., p. 168. Belgique. horticole, 1884, p. 89. 
The plant here represented is a member of a small family of Orchids containing 
about twenty species, established by Sir William Hooker many years ago, and of 
which sundry small-flowered kinds have from time to time appeared in cultivation. 
They have, however, quickly disappeared, because there are very few collections 
where these small-flowered kinds are appreciated, one striking exception being the 
collection at Burford Lodge, the residence of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.: here every 
species, be it small-flowered or gay-coloured, receives as much care and _ attention 
from Mr. White, the gardener, as from his employer, who cherishes them with the 
same love and consideration as the more showy large-flowered species and_ varieties. 
The present plate was drawn from a plant that flowered in our own collection 
during the month of May in the present year. It is a most elegant and charming 
species, and although it is not a plant which has been seen much in cultivation 
except during the last few years, it has long been known to science, having been 
found by Gardner in Southern Brazil nearly sixty years ago. 
Ornithocephalus grandiflorus is a dwarf-growing and compact evergreen plant, 
having leaves of a rich bright green, and a somewhat dense raceme of bloom. The 
spike we have observed is a very long time in growing, but the flowers, when open, 
last a long time in full perfection. It is best grown in a small shallow basket or 
pan so that it can be suspended near to the roof-glass or upon a block of wood. 
We prefer the former, because these plants do not thrive so well upon the blocks 
of wood which we can provide for them, as they do upon the growing trees. In 
_ the pans or baskets, however, thorough drainage must be provided, and we use for 
